He went to jail because he made $2 million dollars while cheaping out on tiny amounts of child support. The court reduced his responsibility to a paltry $14/month when he told them he couldn't work. If anything, he lied to the court as well, and should face perjury charges.
In 1989, he was ordered to pay $100 a month for his four children, but told the court he was unemployed and medically unable to work, so the payments were reduced to $14 a month.
But in 1996, the U.S. court learned Stroup had been operating a successful internet business, which he sold for more than $2 million US. The child support order was then modified, but he continued to fail to pay and an arrest warrant was issued in 1998.
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Yes, small.
What kind of logic is that? So I'm not being paid for a large amount of the work I do because large amounts of what I get paid goes to paying for living costs? Only surplus money is pay?
Haha.
I'm amused by how disingenuous Pate has been. He whined about how a man was arrested for not paying child support, even while unemployed and unable to work, yet the story he was quoting CLEARLY states that the court reduced his responsibility to a mere $14 a month after pleading his case, and that the arrest warrant was only issued after he BOTH failed to pay $14/month and had made $2,000,000 dollars off his internet business.
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