Infamous tax evaders in U.S. history

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This year marks the 100th year Americans have sent form 1040 to the Department of Treasury. We took a look back and found some of the more famous tax evaders in American history.

Pete Rose, former Cincinnati Red and major league baseball's all-time hit leader, signs a bat during an appearance at the Sports Gallery a sports memorabilia shop in West Chester on Wednesday, Nov. 16. Rose had his picture taken with fans and signed anything from baseballs to seat backs from Riverfront Stadium during the event. Photo by David A. Moodie, contributing photographer

Leona Helmsley poses next to a photo of her with her husband Harry Helmsley, in New York in 1998. Helmsley, the hotel operator and real estate developer whose conviction on federal tax evasion charges in 1989 became an emblem of the excesses of the 1980s, died Monday, Aug. 20, 2007 at her summer house in Greenwich, Conn., according to Howard J. Rubenstein, her longtime spokesman. She was 87. (Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times)

Richard Hatch, who won $1 million on the first season of the reality show "Survivor," is shown in this Sept. 19, 2005, file photo in Providence, R.I. Hatch was convicted of tax evasion and served 51 months in prison. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)

Former U.S. Congressman Randall "Duke" Cunningham, center, is helped by aides as he arrives at the federal courthouse in San Diego Friday March 3, 2006 for sentencing on his conviction for bribery and tax evasion. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)

Lobbyist Jack Abramoff leaves Federal Court in Washington Jan. 3, 2006, after pleading guilty to federal charges of conspiracy, tax evasion and mail fraud, and agreeing to cooperate with prosecutors investigating the influence peddling that has threatened powerful members of the U.S. Congress. At right, his attorney Abbe Lowell. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Rep. James Traficant Jr., D-Ohio, leaves the U.S. Federal courthouse Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2002 in Cleveland. Traficant is on trial in federal court on a 10-count corruption indictment. Traficant is charged with accepting bribes, taking cash kickbacks from staff who were paid to provide little work, tax evasion and racketerring. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Dennis Kozlowski, former CEO of Tyco International arrives at criminal court in New York, Friday, Sept. 27, 2002. Kozlowski was indicted on tax evasion, charged with avoiding more than $1 million in sales tax on $ 13 million in art he purchased. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)

Lawrence Taylor arrives for sentencing on charges of tax evasion at the Federal Courthouse in Camden, N.J., Friday, April 7, 2000. Taylor avoided jail again when he was sentenced to five years probation and three months of house arrest for tax evasion. The 41-year-old NFL Hall of Famer was fined $10,000 and ordered to undergo drug testing and provide full financial disclosure. (AP Photo/Jeff Zelevansky)

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew is shown in this Aug. 8, 1973 file photo at a Washington news conference during which Agnew stated he would not resign. Agnew, a nationally obscure governor who rose to become Richard Nixon's vice president on the strength of his die-hard conservatism resigned in October 1973 after pleading no contest to a single count of income-tax evasion. Agnew died Tuesday, Sept. 17, 1996, at age 77. (AP Photo/file)

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Pete Rose, former Cincinnati Red and major league baseball's all-time hit leader, signs a bat during an appearance at the Sports Gallery a sports memorabilia shop in West Chester on Wednesday, Nov. 16. Rose had his picture taken with fans and signed anything from baseballs to seat backs from Riverfront Stadium during the event. Photo by David A. Moodie, contributing photographer

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