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Exactly, I mean where is the victim here?
I forgot to mention but this happened about 30 years ago so I am not sure how much $1,260,000 would be in today´s money but I bet it is quite a bit more.
My father was an accountant and he would tell me that we all have a duty to pay our taxes but we also have the right to be clever about how much we pay using all the aw that allows. But he told me that not avoiding tax is a serious crime. Still I find it difficult to feel animosity towards this man.
It makes me laugh to think I had spoken to this guy quite a few times not knowing how clever he was. He actually pretended to be dumb ha ha. A Hollywood film here somewhere lol
I agree @donkeypong not really a scam in the world or real scams where people are swindled out of their life savings and so on.

Even for one million dollars, I would not have wanted to do this job, 6 days a week for 7 years!
Too boring!

Im not so sure.
I spoke with the guy a few times and he was very sociable and loved chatting with people. I guess he had no one to order him about either. Surely he paid others to work on some some days as well
I guess it depends on your view point I guess.
How many jobs pay over a million dollars in such a short time - and his was 30 years ago so that million today would be far higher