"2010 Austin suicide attack The 2010 Austin suicide attack occurred on February 18, 2010, when Andrew Joseph Stack III deliberately crashed his single-engine Piper Dakota light aircraft into Building I of the Echelon office complex in Austin, Texas, United States, killing himself and Internal Revenue Service manager Vernon Hunter. Thirteen others were injured, two seriously. The four-story office building housed an IRS field office occupying the top three floors, along with a couple of private businesses on the first floor. Prior to the crash, Stack had posted a suicide note referring to ""greed"", ""insanity"", and the IRS, dated February 18,"
"place in Austin on August 1, 1966, when a gunman shot 43 people, killing 13 from the top of the University of Texas tower (see University of Texas tower shooting). This event led to the formation of the SWAT team. In 2010, Andrew Joseph Stack III deliberately crashed his Piper Cherokee PA-28 into Echelon 1, an IRS building housing 190 employees. The resulting explosion killed 1 person (excluding the pilot), injured 13, and completely destroyed the building, costing the IRS a total of 38.6 million (see 2010 Austin suicide attack). A series of bombings occurred in Austin in March 2018."
"among the highest of all self-employed workers and that Section 1706 would raise no additional tax revenue and could possibly result in losses as self-employed workers did not receive as many tax-free benefits as employees. In one report in 2010, Moynihan's initiative was labeled ""a favor to IBM."" A suicide note by software professional Joseph Stack, who flew his airplane into a building housing IRS offices in February 2010, blamed his problems on many factors, including the Section 1706 change in the tax law while even mentioning Senator Moynihan by name, though no intermediary firm is mentioned, and failure to"
"statutory arguments). The tax evasion convictions of Mrs. Brown involved the failure to report income of $1,310,706 over a period of five years. On April 24, 2007, Ed and Elaine Brown were sentenced to five years and three months in prison each. After a long standoff at their New Hampshire residence, the Browns were arrested by Federal law enforcement authorities on October 4, 2007, and began serving their prison sentences. Andrew Joseph Stack III was a computer programmer who on February 18, 2010 set fire to his own house, drove to a local airport, then flew a Piper Dakota into"
"in Austin, the field office located in Echelon I performed tax audits, seizures, investigations and collections. The note ended with: Vernon Hunter, a 68-year-old Revenue Officer Group Manager for the IRS, was killed in the incident along with Joseph Stack. Thirteen people were reported as injured, two of them critically. Debris from the crash reportedly struck a car being driven on the southbound access road of Route 183 in front of the building, shattering the windshield. Another driver on the southbound access road of Route 183 had his windows and sunroof shattered during the impact, and had debris fall inside"
"2010, to his business website. Stack is also suspected of having set fire that morning to his two-story North Austin house, which was mostly destroyed. In the aftermath, there was increased debate over the policies of the IRS, and different forms of protest. In response to the attack, the IRS spent more than $38.6 million, with $6.4 million spent to recover and resume work at the building, and over $32 million spent to increase security at other IRS sites in the U.S. However, the spending on security changes was questioned as being ineffective. The building was repaired by December 2011."
"Section 530 exemptions from payroll taxes. This change in the tax code was expected to offset the tax revenue losses of other legislation that Moynihan proposed to change the law of foreign taxes of Americans working abroad. Joseph Stack, who flew his airplane into a building housing IRS offices on February 18, 2010, posted a suicide note that, among many factors, mentioned the Section 1706 change to the Internal Revenue Code. As a key Environment and Public Works Committee member, Moynihan gave vital support and guidance to William K. Reilly, who served under President George H.W. Bush as Administrator of"
"north. He boarded his single-engine Piper Dakota airplane and took off around 9:45 a.m. Central Standard Time. He indicated to the control tower his flight would be ""going southbound, sir."" After taking off, his final words were ""thanks for your help, have a great day."" About ten minutes later, his plane descended and collided at full speed with Echelon I, a building containing offices for 190 IRS employees, resulting in a large fireball and explosion. The building is located near the intersection of Research Boulevard (U.S. Route 183) and Mopac Expressway (Loop 1). On the morning of the crash, Stack"
"who had a daughter from a previous marriage. In 1985, Stack, along with his first wife, incorporated Prowess Engineering. In 1994, he failed to file a state tax return. In 1998, the Stacks divorced and a year later his wife filed Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, citing IRS liabilities totaling nearly $126,000. In 1995, Stack started Software Systems Service Corp, which was suspended in 2004 for non-payment of state taxes. Stack obtained a pilot's certificate in 1994 and owned a Velocity Elite XL-RG plane, in addition to the Piper Dakota (aircraft registration N2889D) he flew into the Echelon building. He had been"
"using the Georgetown Municipal Airport for four and a half years and paid $236.25 a month to rent a hangar. There has been speculation that Stack replaced seats on his aircraft with extra drums of fuel prior to the collision. Stack's accountant confirmed that at the time of the incident he was being audited by the IRS for failure to report income. Approximately an hour before the crash, Stack allegedly set fire to his $230,000 house located on Dapplegrey Lane in North Austin. He then drove to a hangar he rented at Georgetown Municipal Airport, approximately 20 miles to the"
"a local IRS field office in Austin Texas. Stack had been in tax disputes with the IRS since the 1980s, including his involvement in a scheme to call himself a member of clergy for tax purposes, and was being audited at the time of his death. He posted an online ""manifesto"" expressing his anger at the government for his financial problems. His arguments in the manifesto, combined with his activities, indicate a mixture of tax resistance arguments, tax protest, and a more general belief that the US government had forfeited its legitimacy by failing to address his complaints. Nonetheless, he"
"taxpayers, or ""CAU"" taxpayers. The guidelines for the CAU designation are: In response to an inquiry after the February 18, 2010, suicidal attack on an office of the IRS at Austin, Texas, by Andrew Joseph Stack that resulted in the death of Stack and an IRS employee, an IRS spokesperson indicated that the IRS also declined to state whether Stack had been designated as a PDT. Mark Pitcavage of the Anti-Defamation League called Stack a lone-wolf ""homegrown, self-taught extremist"" with possible ties to the Tax Protest Movement. This is a chart from an IRS report that shows data on quantities"
"his two passengers. The aircraft had left White Plains, New York and was heading for North Carolina, when it encountered an area of intense thunderstorm activity. The left wing departed the ship while deviating around the area of bad weather. The NTSB determined the cause of the crash was ""The pilot's improper decision to fly into an area of thunderstorms, which resulted in a loss of aircraft control and subsequent in-flight breakup. Contributing to the accident was the thunderstorm."" Trappe, Maryland Trappe is a town in Talbot County, Maryland, United States. The population was 1,077 at the 2010 census. Trappe"
"an engineer, including his meeting with a poor widow who never got the pension benefits she was promised, the effect of the Section 1706 of Tax Reform Act of 1986 on independent contractor engineers, the September 11 attacks, airline bailouts that benefited only the airlines but not the suffering engineers and how a CPA he hired seemed to side with the government to take extra tax money from him. The note also mentions Stack's having issues with taxes, debt, and the IRS and his having a long-running feud with the organization. While the IRS also has a larger regional office"
"(as described above), by the 2010 census, the city had less than 40 percent of that number, with just over 700,000 residents. The city has declined in population in each census since 1950. High unemployment was compounded by middle-class flight to the suburbs, and some residents leaving the state to find work. The city was left with a higher proportion of poor in its population, reduced tax base, depressed property values, abandoned buildings, abandoned neighborhoods, high crime rates and a pronounced demographic imbalance. On August 16, 1987, Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashed near Detroit, killing all but one of the"
"a flight attendant and presumably PSA's chief pilot, causing the airplane to enter a steep nosedive. The aircraft slammed into a hillside just east of Cayucos at . All 43 passengers and crew aboard perished. In October 2009, Arthur Frommer's ""Budget Travel Magazine"" listed Cayucos as one of the ""Coolest Small Towns in America"". Cayucos is located at (35.438390, -120.890647). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , of which, of it is land and of it (10.85%) is water. Cayucos is home to Cayucos State Beach. The 2010 United States Census reported"
"off and there were civil claims against him totaling about $20M. In August 2010 he reached a deal with Indiana prosecutors to plead guilty to five counts of securities fraud, serve 10 years in prison and pay victims of his schemes more than $630,000, and in October the judgement was entered, with the 10 years' imprisonment ordered to run consecutively with the sentence on the federal charges for the faked plane crash. A hearing on his ongoing divorce was scheduled for later that October. Marcus Schrenker Marcus Schrenker (born ~1971) is a former financial advisor from Indiana. He is best"
"Joseph Stack's widow in federal District Court. The lawsuit alleges that Sheryl had a duty to ""avoid a foreseeable risk of injury to others,"" including her late husband and failed to do so by not warning others about her late husband. The lawsuit also mentions that Stack was required by law to fly his plane at an altitude above the highest obstacle. At a March 8, 2010, benefit event, Stack's widow, Sheryl, publicly offered condolences for the victims of the attack. Iowa congressman Steve King (R-Iowa) has made several statements regarding Stack including, Noted libertarian socialist American intellectual Noam Chomsky"
"attacking the fire and initiating search-and-rescue. Several City of Austin fire engines for the area of the Echelon building were already deployed at the fire at Stack's home at the time of the impact. Stack's North Austin home was mostly destroyed by fire. Georgetown Municipal Airport was temporarily evacuated while a bomb disposal team searched Stack's abandoned vehicle. An inspection into the Echelon building's structural integrity was concluded six days after the incident and a preliminary decision was made to repair the building rather than demolish it. Those repairs were substantially complete by December 2011. The IRS spent more than"
"New York City and the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia. Many of the passengers then attempted to regain control of the aircraft from the hijackers. During the struggle, the plane crashed into a field near a reclaimed strip mine in Stonycreek Township, near Indian Lake and Shanksville, about southeast of Pittsburgh and northwest of Washington, D.C. A few people witnessed the impact from the ground, and news agencies began reporting the event within an hour. Of the four aircraft hijacked on September 11 – the others were American Airlines Flight 11, United Airlines Flight 175 and American Airlines Flight 77"
"2008 Mexico City Learjet crash An official Mexican Interior Ministry aircraft crashed in central Mexico City at around 18:45 local time on 4 November 2008. The nine people on board, including the Mexican Secretary of the Interior Juan Camilo Mouriño, were killed in the crash, along with seven people on the ground. The plane crashed in rush-hour traffic close to the intersection of Paseo de la Reforma and the Anillo Periférico, in the Las Lomas residential and business district. It entered wake turbulence from following a Boeing 767 too closely and plummeted to the ground below. Although the plane did"
"taxes and obtain other city services on-line 24 hours a day. In January 2001, Mundy and Erin Johansen, 26, of Ontario, Canada died of smoke inhalation during a fire in Mundy's Atlanta, GA home. In addition to EzGov, govWorks had other competitors; some of whom offered the same or similar service as govWorks but at a much lower cost or in some cases free, as the competitor service models relied on alternate forms of financing versus govWorks’ client-funded approach. In March 2001, govWorks.com officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. At the time of the filing, the company listed assets"
"in 1948, are located on the geographic Island. There have been more than ten major air disasters. The three following planes all crashed in either Nassau or Suffolk County: In 1965, Eastern Airlines Flight 663 crashed into Jones Beach State Park after take-off. In 1990, Avianca Flight 52 crashed into Cove Neck, NY, killing 73 passengers. In 1996, TWA Flight 800 exploded over water off the coast of the small hamlet of East Moriches. Fatalities totaled 230 people in the disaster. A monument to those lost stands at Smith Point County Park on Fire Island in Suffolk County. On July"
"requirements. On September 4, 1971, Alaska Airlines Flight 1866, a Boeing 727-100, crashed into the easterly slope of a canyon in the Chilkat Range of the Tongass National Forest while on approach to Juneau International Airport. All 111 passengers and crew on board were killed. At the time it was the worst single airplane air disaster in United States history. Juneau International Airport Juneau International Airport is a city-owned, public-use airport and seaplane base located seven nautical miles (8 mi, 13 km) northwest of the central business district of Juneau, a city and borough in the U.S. state of Alaska"
"facilities in Mexico City's Benito Juárez International Airport. A video of the air traffic control radar and voice record was posted on YouTube since the crash of China Southern Airlines Flight 3456; the cause was similar to that kind of crash, officials say. Several key elements of the accident have emerged during the investigation: The accident and subsequent investigation were featured in Season 14 - Episode 8 of documentary series Mayday (also known as Air Crash Investigation) titled ""Inner City Carnage"" in the United Kingdom and Australia, and ""Accident or Assassination"" in the United States and Canada. 2008 Mexico City"
"was flown into the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, causing severe damage to the west side of the building. These attacks resulted in the deaths of 221 people (including the 15 hijackers) on board the three planes as well as 2,731 more in and around the targeted buildings. A fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after a revolt by the plane's passengers, killing all 44 people (including the four hijackers) on board. In total, the attacks killed 2,996 people and injured more than 6,000 others. The U.S. stock market closed for four trading days after the attacks"
"recover, it did not have sufficient altitude and crashed into a building, exploding on impact. The Interior Secretariat-owned Learjet 45 (registration XC-VMC) left Ponciano Arriaga International Airport in San Luis Potosí, S.L.P., and was short of landing at Mexico City International Airport when it crashed, amidst rush-hour traffic, in the heart of the financial district at approximately 18:45, causing an explosion that ""reached higher than the buildings"". According to then Secretary of Communications and Transport Luis Téllez, there were no survivors. Téllez also stated that the crash appeared to be an accident. The crash set multiple cars and a newsstand"
"being shipped. Early on the morning of November 21, 2007, a single-engine Cirrus piloted by Brian Early of Wayne, Pennsylvania, got lost in the fog on its approach and crashed in the state forest. He had been dropping off his two passengers, a son and one of his friends, to visit friends of theirs at West Point for Thanksgiving. It took rescuers three hours to find the wreckage using the plane's transponder. Early was killed but the younger men survived. A small aerobatic plane crashed at the airport August 28, 2015, killing the pilot, who was practicing stunts at Stewart"
"firefighters of the year by the Genesee County Association of Fire Chiefs for their lifesaving efforts after the attack. Bishop International Airport attack On June 21, 2017, airport police Lt. Jeff Neville was stabbed in the neck at Bishop International Airport in the US city of Flint, Michigan. The main suspect, Amor Ftouhi, reportedly yelled """"Allahu akbar"""" during the attack and was travelling on a Canadian passport. The airport was evacuated and searched by bomb sniffing dogs, who found nothing. He was charged with violence at an international airport and interfering with airport security.He was later charged with committing an"
"zoning and building approvals, alleging that Stack influenced the zoning board into voting against a residential building that Lieber wished to build on his property because he was not a political favorite of Stack's. Lieber sued the city for $4 million, later settling out of court for an undisclosed amount. In January 2011, Stack was criticized in one of Arnold Díaz's ""Shame Shame Shame"" segments for WNYW Fox 5 for allowing the use of city-owned vehicles by his ex-wife, Katia Stack. Katia is the director of The Union City Day Care Program, a private organization with a $6 million budget,"
"the PGR's technical secretariat for implementing the recent constitutional reforms on criminal justice and public security. He died on 4 November 2008 when the aircraft he was traveling on crashed in Mexico City. This accident also claimed the life of his friend, Secretary of the Interior Juan Camilo Mouriño. José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos (7 June 1957 – 4 November 2008) was a Mexican lawyer, politician and civil servant. Santiago Vasconcelos, a native of Mexico City, earned a law degree at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). In 1993 he began working for the office of"
"places in Maryland, including an NSA building, theaters and occupied vehicles in late February 2015. No motive has been established but his estranged wife attributed his behavior to mental issues, and he told police he heard voices telling him to shoot at a random driver. On March 30, 2015, National Security Agency police officers shot and killed a person who attempted to drive an SUV through a restricted entrance to the NSA campus in Fort Meade, Maryland. A passenger in the SUV was injured, as was an officer, and both were treated at a hospital. President Obama was briefed but"
"1985 A plane heading for Buchanan Field Airport loses control and crashes into the roof of Macys, killing the pilot and two passengers, and seriously injuring 84 Christmas shoppers at the Sun Valley Mall in Concord<br> Año Nuevo State Park is established at Año Nuevo Island ""(pictured, left)"" and points in San Mateo County<br> Emeryville Crescent State Marine Reserve ""(pictured, right)"" is established<br> NeXT is founded in Redwood City by Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs, after being forced out of Apple<br> The San Francisco 49ers win the Super Bowl for the second time 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 The"