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  • Oh how can we ever forget good old Richard Hatch! He will always be remembered, in fact my memories are of him naked! So what usually happens to a man who wins 1 million dollars? Do they usually forget to pay the taxes due?
    Read below as Richard was a winner, who quickly hit rock bottom!

    Richard Hatch Gets Hammered
    "Survivor" winner indicted for tax evasion, fraud, charity swindle

    SEPTEMBER 8--After rejecting a plea deal earlier this year, original "Survivor" winner Richard Hatch was named today in a 10-count indictment charging him with tax evasion and fraudulently using charitable donations to cover personal expenses. According to the indictment, a copy of which you'll find below, Hatch never bothered to report his 2000-01 haul for winning the initial installment of the CBS reality series--a $1 million check and a $27,000 Pontiac. The 44-year-old Newport, Rhode Island resident also never told the Internal Revenue Service about nearly $400,000 in other income. Included in that six-figure sum was $36,500 in donations to Horizon Bound, a purported charity established by Hatch. Prosecutors allege that Hatch actually used that money for personal expenses. Along with two tax evasion counts, Hatch was charged with filing a false return; mail fraud (four counts); wire fraud (two counts); and bank fraud. He faces a maximum of five years in prison (and a $250,000 fine) on nine of the felony charges, though the bank fraud rap carries a 30-year max and a $1 million fine. Hatch reneged on a January plea agreement calling for him to cop to a pair of felony tax evasion counts. Prosecutors responded by opening a grand jury probe that resulted in Hatch being hit with eight additional felonies.

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