Doctor who claimed COVID vaccines made people magnets is sued for 'failing to pay $650K in taxes'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: UK Independent

12 hours ago


Dr Sherri Tenpenny, a Cleveland doctor who told state legislators during the Covid-19 pandemic that vaccines caused people to become "magnetic", has been sued by the federal government for failing to pay $650,000 in taxes and late fees, investigators say. The Department of Justice's Tax Division sued Tenpenny in the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, accusing her of failing to pay her taxes in 2001, 2012 and in 2013. With the addition of late fees and penalties, the DOJ argues Tenpenny owes a total of $646,929.82.

Tenpenny spoke to Cleveland.com and told reporters she has been unfairly targeted by the feds and claims she has tried for years to clear up her tax issues. “This shows what the IRS can do to a person that they target,” she told Cleveland.com's Adam Ferrise. “This is a total harassment case. They’ve been doing this to me for 23 years.”

The DOJ noted in the court filing that Tenpenny had previously established "compromise offers" and was involved in "installation agreements" to pay off her taxes, but noted the taxes from three years remained outstanding. "Despite proper notice and demand, Sherri J. Tenpenny failed, neglected, or refused to fully pay the liabilities described in paragraph 3, and after the application of all abatements, payments, and credits, she remains liable to the United States in the amount of $646,929.82, plus statutory additions and interest accruing from and after April 8, 2024," according to the DOJ's lawsuit.

Tenpenny, who was lauded by anti-vax conservatives for speaking out against the Covid vaccines, has run to Republican Senator JD Vance looking for help.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/doctor-covid-magnets-sherri-tenpenny-sue-taxes-b2556084.html

[Vinca]

1. Somehow, I missed this particular conspiracy theory. I'm a little disappointed.

It would have been kind of handy to be magnetic. No more dropped pins and needles when I'm sewing. No more dropped kitchen utensils when I'm cooking. By the way, did this woman graduate from Trump Medical School??

[GoneOffShore]

2. Tenpenny is an infamous anti-vaccine osteopath and general RW whackjob.

[IronLionZion]

14. People are more magnetic in the summer time

It's a trick where they stick a coin or something small to their sweaty sticky skin and show their stupid viewers that they are now "magnetic" because of the vaccine. Idiots are less "magnetic" in air conditioned spaces and during winter.

There have been similar tricks like that where they would stick a light bulb to their shoulder where they got the shot. The bulb would light up because it has it's own battery and pressure switch built in, not because the vaccinated person in electrified.

[Wednesdays]

22. The coin thing is especially funny

because no U.S. coin contains iron (the only exception being the 1943 penny).

[IronLionZion]

25. I like the microchip lie

because they apparently think microchips are "micro" enough to be injected like in the movies.

[Ocelot II]

26. Didn't you ever wonder why paper clips kept sticking to you,

or why you were inexorably drawn to your refrigerator even when you weren't hungry?

[GreenWave]

3. May she be left with ten pennies after taxes.

[John Shaft]

5. "And the lib'tards fell for this shit from Fauci."

Can you clarify, please?

[3Hotdogs]

6. Do you really need the emoticon?

[John Shaft]

7. If you were adept at sarcasm

I wouldn't.

I always seek clarity in communications.

Edit: I've worked with adults with intellectual disabilities.

Versions of words with "'tard" in them are highly offensive to some people.

[0rganism]

8. Sticky spoon lady says what?

Seems like as the nightmare months dragged on, I saw more and more of her and other grifters and less of actual scientists. Looking back it's almost funny to think that if TCF had taken COVID halfway seriously, he'd probably be wrapping up his second term this year.

[AllaN01Bear]

9. and another one bites the dust, so many many many felons and tax evadors !!!!

[Jose Garcia]

10. They should take away his TARDIS

[TeamProg]

11. My experience is that the IRS is willing to work with people to

make paying back taxes easy.

In the 90’s I started making big bucks but wasn’t paying quarterlies. At one point I owed them 18k. We worked it out.

[unc70]

12. Dr Tenpenny has been nailed

[mn9driver]

16. They are dropping the hammer on her.

Hope she doesn’t get bent out of shape!

[keithbvadu2]

13. Anti-vaccine nurse tries to prove she is now magnetic - FAIL

Anti-vaccine nurse tries to prove she is now magnetic - FAIL

Link to tweet

[LudwigPastorius]

32. The reactions of the people behind her are hilarious.

Thanks, I needed the laugh!

[IronLionZion]

15. Might be fewer of these idiots by election time

Tenpenny is a good name for someone who contributed to decimating people through malicious disinformation. COVID was a Darwinian moment in American history.

[harumph]

17. How much income does one have to report to owe 650k?

Quite the grift.

[BumRushDaShow]

18. I think that includes just a couple years

but with penalties that apparently accrued over the years.

[twodogsbarking]

19. Enough to get caught.

[JohnnyRingo]

20. I see what she was doing. She was playing the system and it didn't work this time.

If someone gets behind on their taxes, the IRS will often negotiate a lesser amount to settle up. There are even companies that do the leg work for people who owe large sums of money.

Likely she was not paying taxes over and over (according to her) and when it got to the point of foreclosure, she would offer a compromise amount to settle it. The IRS isn't letting her do that this time and she's having a fit.

In an all too familiar response, she's claiming they're just going after her because she's not in the club. Pay your taxes like everyone else.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

21. Who is surprised by this?

This person is a scammer and idiot

[Martin68]

23. Hilarious!

[Beowulf42]

24. Aha! Tenpenny wise and 650 pound foolish.

Atta Boy!

[gab13by13]

27. She didn't, hasn't paid her taxes and she gets sued by DOJ

Hunter Biden doesn't pay his taxes and then he pays them and Garland's DOJ indicts him criminally.

Why isn't this woman indicted criminally?

[Voltaire2]

28. Doctor Who? How dare she!

[republianmushroom]

29. Tsk, Tsk, Sherri

[LudwigPastorius]

30. "Doctor who claimed COVID vaccines made people magnets is sued"

Doctor Sherri 2 Dope?

[Aussie105]

31. She lost the plot a while back.

The vaccine makes you magnetic, now 'forgetting' to pay taxes.