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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

Is it just me, or is someone who failed to pay taxes he owed not the best 
candidate for head of the Treasury Department? It's considered just a 
'complication', not a disqualification, and Obama still supports him?

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090113/D95MGFTO1.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Barack Obama's choice to run the Treasury 
Department and lead the economic rescue effort disclosed to senators Tuesday 
that he failed to pay $34,000 in taxes from 2001 to 2004, a last-minute 
complication in an otherwise smooth path to confirmation.

Timothy Geithner paid most of the past-due taxes days before Obama announced 
his nomination in November, an Obama transition official said. The unpaid 
taxes were discovered by Obama's transition team while investigating 
Geithner's background, the official said.

Lynn Wigglesworth