Here’s the latest DC leader with tax troubles. The LA Times quotes a Bloomberg investigation into California Congressman Pete Stark – a senior House Democrat who helps write the nation’s tax laws. The State of Maryland is now launching an investigation into Stark who:

has been claiming a $1.7 million Maryland home as his principal residence in recent years, although he represents the Golden State’s 13th District on the east side of San Francisco Bay. The 77-year-old Stark has saved himself nearly $3,900 in state and county taxes by claiming the six-acre waterfront estate as his principal residence…Maryland law allows the tax break only to those residences used “for the legal purposes of voting, obtaining a driver’s license, and filing income tax returns.”

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