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Thursday, November 27, 2025

Senator Jim Justice, a Republican and former governor of West Virginia, has agreed to pay over $5 million in long-overdue taxes, just hours after being sued by U.S. tax authorities. The first-term senator and his wife reached the settlement following a lawsuit accusing the couple of having "neglected or refused to make full payment" on taxes from 2009.

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Justice, who led the state from 2017 until he took office as a senator in 2025, entered politics after decades running his family's coal empire, which controlled dozens of mines across several states.

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He ate the evidence.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-11-27 06:58 AM | Reply

Shouldn't this scofflaw be in prison?

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-11-27 01:32 PM | Reply

He "agreed" to pay the taxes he owed.

That implies a choice is involved.

What if I were to "disagree" to pay my taxes due next year?

Is that choice equally acceptable to the IRS?



#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-28 12:13 AM | Reply

So happy that this public servant just happened to have $5 million around to take care of his little problem.

Coal money. I wonder if he ever set foot in a mine that wasn't for a photo op.

#4 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-11-28 11:25 AM | Reply

Clearly kin of Buford T. Justice.

#5 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-11-28 12:27 PM | Reply

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