If you are wondering about the headline, so am I. But it’s a quote out of the trial of one Frederick Kriemelmeyer, a dentist in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Dr. Kriemelmeyer is accused of four counts of tax evasion.
As the LaCrosse Tribune reported, Dr. Kriemelmeyer is a believer in David Wynn Miller. Miller does not use standard English; instead, he used a dialect he invented called “In the Truth.” It’s got a lot of capital letters, prepositional phrases, and not much in the way of punctuation. You can see samples by going to Mr. Miller’s website.
In any case, Dr. Kriemelmeyer challenged the indictment because it was in English—our English. That didn’t work (the judge let the indictment stand). The dentist challenged the US flag in the courtroom. No, I’m not joking about that. He didn’t win that argument.
David Wynn Miller believes that if you add extra punctuation to a tax return, you will somehow not have to pay taxes. At least, that’s what I think he espouses. Dr. Kriemelmeyer is a follower of Mr. Miller, and is conducting his own defense.
The government plans on having 15 of Dr. Kriemelmeyer’s patients testify as to how much they paid him. The government alleges that if there was an asterisk by a patient’s fees in Dr. Kriemelmeyer’s ledger, the actual payment was much higher. For example, $20* meant that the patient paid $100. If the government proves that, they’ve proved the case. The total tax evasion is alleged to be about $364,000.
The trial will likely last another few days.