Survivor Winner IndictedHatch charged with failing to pay taxes on winnings

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) -- Richard Hatch, who won $1 million on the first season of the reality show "Survivor," was indicted Thursday for failing to pay taxes on his winnings and catching the ghey.

Prosecutors had charged Hatch with two counts of tax evasion in January, and he agreed to plead guilty. But he backed out of the deal in March, saying he thought CBS was responsible for paying the taxes on his prize.

CBS has said Hatch knew he had to pay taxes on the winnings.

The new indictment charges Hatch with 10 counts including tax evasion, filing a false tax return, wire fraud, bank fraud, mail fraud and catching the ghey. According to the indictment, his 2000 and 2001 tax returns omitted his income from the reality show, $327,000 he was paid to co-host a radio show and $28,000 in rent on a property he owns in Newport.

Hatch, 44, also was accused of misusing $36,500 from a nonprofit camp he set up, Horizon Bound.

If found guilty on all charges, he could face up to 75 years in a federal "pound me in the ass" prison and millions of dollars in fines.

Hatch was on a plane headed for Houston on Thursday to help hurricane victims at the Astrodome and could not be reached for comment, according to a spokesman for Hatch's attorney, Michael Minns.

Hatch won during the first season of "Survivor" in August 2000. He has since appeared on other TV shows, most recently the "Battle of the Network Reality Stars" on Bravo, and still has the ghey.

You know, you could refrain from making the gay remarks. This isn't about him being gay.

Just sayin'...

wait, OPA!

Are you gay???

just sayin...

What does that have anything to do with it? Joking around is one thing, but I didn't find his post funny.

Is the rest of this true, aside from the gay jokes?

Ah well. I thought it was a little funny. Didn't mean to offend.

Ooooh, the insensitivity of it all!

relax OPA, he said ghey, not gay.

I think it is---And, with apologies to Chrissy B, I gotta admit that its pretty funny to edit legit news stories with anti-homosexual (or for that matter: racist, anti-poor, anti-white, etc...)l comments.

Its not original. But it makes my troubled little brain laugh on a Friday.

Yeah got it from CNN.

I mean I knew that he had been accused of not paying taxes and everything -- but 75 years in prison? That's a different story.

I mean did he REALLY think that he was gonna get away with this?

Seriously.

And yeah Bloor, I LOVE the idea of fucking with real stories and adding shit like that.

Should be it's own thread.

At least he'll take a shine to the prison rape....

[quote="Busty Rhodes"]And yeah Bloor, I LOVE the idea of fucking with real stories and adding shit like that.

Made me laugh, the more offensive the better.

Why is that? Oh right, he's gay.

Seriously, DJ: You would have to wear a fucking diaper if you kicked it with us for more than about 14 minutes-------you love our brand of highly offensive comedy That much.

oh opa...I'm just messin...don't get em in a wad.

you racist/sexist pigs.

Someday soon, I just know a conference is going to take me to ATL....and I will miss said conference because my corpse won't be able to present anything.

Nah, you'll make it to said conference and SHINE.

Ask around dude, the ATL crew party's hard but we do manage to get our work done...

But sometimes, the work is the party.

A scene from DATlanta, featuring Bloor, Derris, Harry (Monster), LooGAR, et. al. --

I think it's pretty serious when you hold out on that much in taxes. what are the taxes on 1.5 million? (probably half....)

whenever we're in Newport i drive by his mom's house and look for him.

"Hey, lady, you seen Dickie? Tell him I'm looking for him. Yo, DIKAAAAYYYY!"

So did this guy ever actually start serving his 51 months?