Abortionist Joseph Booker Jr. ran into trouble for tax evasion and improper disposal of medical waste. He also was charged with simple assault after brandishing a gun at women and children protesting outside the New Woman Medical Center abortion clinic in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
The judge dismissed charges due to discrepancies in witness’ description of the weapon and lack of corroborating witnesses. Apparently, the people targeted did not know enough about firearms to identify the gun, and there were no passers-by to validate their version of what happened.
The abortionist, the former operator of an abortion clinic in Gulfport, admitted to filing a false income tax return in 1995 for the Gulf Coast Women’s Clinic Inc. Booker claimed that his abortion clinic’s taxable income in Calendar Year 1994 was $2,350, but the actual income was $93,500.68, according to the indictment. He failed to pay over $30,000 in taxes. In November 1999, he was sentenced to five months in prison for filing a false personal Federal income tax return. Booker reported $29,000 in taxable income for 1994 year when he really made $121,000. He told the court that he didn’t realize the discrepancy when he signed the tax return, which was prepared by a Jackson accounting firm. He told the judge he would lose his job at an abortion clinic. “If I don’t have a job, I won’t be able to pay,” he stated.
On December 20, 1999, near Ocean Springs, police found a buried cooler containing plastic bags and aborted children. The cooler had originally belonged to Booker. Ocean Springs Police Chief Kerry Belk said several law enforcement agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency, had investigated and never determined that a crime was committed.
After he finished his prison term, Booker immediately went back to committing abortions at the New Woman Medical Center clinic in Jackson. Gail Chadwick of Pro-Choice of Mississippi said Booker should be allowed to resume practicing medicine because tax charge was unrelated to his performance as a doctor.
References: Jackson Clarion-Ledger, March 21, 1994; “Mississippi: Abortion Practitioner Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion Charges.” Steven Ertelt’s Pro-Life Infonet at http://www.prolifeinfo.org/infonet.html, July 14, 1999; “Former Mississippi Abortion Practitioner Sentenced for Tax Fraud.” Pro-Life Infonet, November 10, 1999; Biloxi Sun-Herald, July 13 and November 10, 1999; and “Mississippi: Imprisonment of Abortion Practitioner May Further Decrease Abortion Rate.” Pro-Life Infonet, December 14, 1999; Associated Press, October 16, 2000; “Tax-Evading Abortionist Back at Work in Mississippi.” Pro-Life Infonet, October 17, 2000.
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