NATION : Besieged Fla. Tax Official Quits
Florida’s chief tax collector resigned her $85,292-a-year job today amid allegations she singled out a political opponent of her husband’s for an audit.
In stepping down, Revenue Director Katie Tucker told Gov. Bob Martinez and the Cabinet, “I emphatically and unequivocally deny that I have ever abused the powers of my office for any purpose.”
Tucker, 46, has headed the Department of Revenue since June, 1988.
Martinez and the Cabinet had suspended her with pay two weeks ago to allow her time to respond to a Florida Department of Law Enforcement report on a 1988 tax investigation of businesses owned by Donald G. Resha.
The FDLE found that Tucker committed no crime but that she personally ordered the probe of Resha, who lost a 1985 election for the state AFL-CIO presidency to her husband, Daniel Miller.
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