John Michael Harvey traveled, bought a house, wrote a book and invested money – much of it from more than $600,000 Texas gave him because he spent a dozen years in prison for the sexual assault of a 3-year-old girl – a crime he didn’t commit.
The Internal Revenue Service told him the money would be tax-free, he said.
And then came the letter in which the agency told him he might need to pay taxes on the money after all. “They want, like, a third of it back,” said an incredulous Harvey.