司法部起诉前特朗普竞选顾问罗杰·斯通和他的妻子尼迪亚，要求支付200万美元的未付赔偿金税。
该诉讼称，斯通夫妇通过德雷克风险投资公司欠下这笔钱，德雷克风险投资公司是斯通夫妇成立的一家有限责任公司。DOJ表示，从2007年到2011年和2018年，他们没有通过该有限责任公司纳税。
该诉讼称:“他们利用德雷克风险投资公司接收应付给罗杰·斯通个人的款项，支付他们的个人费用，保护他们的资产，并避免向国税局报告应税收入。”
就在他预定去佐治亚州联邦监狱报到的前几天，前总统唐纳德·特朗普在罗伯特·穆勒对俄罗斯干预2016年总统大选的调查中，斯通因妨碍司法公正、篡改证人和多项向国会撒谎的罪名被判40个月监禁，减刑选举。
12月23日，就在特朗普离任前几周，斯通获得了全面的总统赦免，宣告定罪无效。
司法部表示，在斯通被刑事指控后，他们使用德雷克风险投资公司购买了他们的公寓。
DOJ人说，尽管没有缴税，但斯通一家过着“奢侈的生活”。
“尽管他们使用德雷克风险投资公司账户中的资金来支付部分税款，但斯通夫妇使用德雷克风险投资公司的资金来保护他们的个人收入免受强制征收，并为奢侈的生活方式提供资金，尽管他们欠下了近200万美元的未付税款、利息和罚款。"
石头会见特朗普12月下旬在他位于西棕榈滩的俱乐部，亲自感谢总统的通勤和赦免。
斯通当时告诉美国广播公司新闻，“我和我的妻子都有机会亲自感谢总统在一场苏联式的表演审判中纠正了我定罪的不公正，这场审判的特点是法官对我的辩护隐瞒了开脱罪责的证据的史诗般的偏见，陪审团女领班的不当行为和检察官的重大不当行为。”
斯通在1月6日美国国会大厦暴动后的几天里再次成为头条新闻录像首先被美国广播公司新闻发现的是，在暴乱之前，在华盛顿特区一家酒店外，一名与宣誓看守民兵组织有联系的男子站在他的两侧。那个人，罗伯特·米努塔，后来逮捕因为他参与了暴动。
Justice Department sues Roger Stone, wife for $2 million in unpaid taxes
The Justice Department has sued former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone and his wife, Nydia, for $2 million dollars in unpaidtaxes.
The suit alleges that the Stones owe the money through Drake Ventures, an LLC set up by the Stones. The DOJ says they did not pay taxes through this LLC from 2007 to 2011 and in 2018.
"They used Drake Ventures to receive payments that are payable to Roger Stone personally, pay their personal expenses, shield their assets, and avoid reporting taxable income to the IRS," the suit says.
Days before he was scheduled to report to a federal penitentiary in Georgia, former PresidentDonald Trumpcommuted Stone's 40-month prison sentence for obstructing justice, witness tampering and multiple counts of lying to Congress in Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidentialelection.
Stone was then issued a full presidential pardon on Dec. 23, nullifying the conviction, just weeks before Trump left office.
The Justice Department said that after Stone was charged criminally they used Drake Ventures to purchase their condo.
The DOJ said that the Stones lived a "lavish lifestyle" despite having unpaid taxes.
"Although they used funds held in Drake Ventures accounts to pay some of their taxes, the Stones' use of Drake Ventures to hold their funds allowed them to shield their personal income from enforced collection and fund a lavish lifestyle despite owing nearly $2 million in unpaid taxes, interest and penalties."
Stonemet with Trumpat his club in West Palm Beach in late December to personally thank the president for commuting and pardoning him.
"My wife and I both had the opportunity to thank the president personally for righting the injustice of my conviction in a Soviet-style show trial, which featured the epic bias of the judge who withheld exculpatory evidence from my defense, misconduct by the jury forewoman and substantial misconduct by the prosecutors," Stone told ABC News at the time.
Stone made headlines again in the days following the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol after he was seen in avideofirst unearthed by ABC News flanked by a man with ties to the Oath Keepers militia group outside a Washington, D.C., hotel before the riot. That man, Roberto Minuta, was laterarrestedfor his part in the insurrection.
