In recent weeks he has owed his place in the side to Frank Lampard's injury and he is not the first world-class player whose compatibility with the England midfielder has been questioned.
Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst says hundreds of thousands of dollars were stolen from his political treasury by his campaign manager, a prominent Republican consultant, who one month ago defaulted on a $506,000 settlement with a land developer that he has owed four times that amount to for years.
"Second, this is a person who's gotten to where he is by fighting for every penny, not paying people what he has owed them because he didn't think their work was up to standards, or taking every possible tax break….
He had to weather reports that he had owed several thousand dollars in taxes and that he defaulted on a student loan last year.
Listed among Carter's creditors is Elite Fine Jewelry in Atlanta, but the owner, who did not want to be identified, said Carter had paid off about $30,000 he had owed for jewelry, including Rolex watches.
Ms. Sebelius's nomination comes nearly a month after Mr. Obama's first choice, former Senator Tom Daschle, withdrew upon revealing that he had owed $128,000 in back taxes and paid it only after being selected.
He had owed his return to the Cambridge seat in Parliament in 1826 to the Whigs—he was opposed by two ministerial colleagues hostile (as he was not) to Catholic Emancipation and of the Whigs who sat with him in the cabinets of Canning and Goderich, he said that he liked them much better than the Tories and agreed with them much more.
Among the more notable American bankrupts was boxer Mike Tyson, not least because he was said to have earned between $300m and $400m in his career up to the point of filing, and still faced debts of $27m, including unpaid child support and, quite possibly, outstanding bills for the care of his tigers (for which he had owed $8,100 a year earlier).
But Gingrich's troubles compounded when Politico reported Tuesday that he had owed Tiffany's between $250,000 and $500,000 for jewelry.
By transferring that stock to his nonprofit Tyler Charitable Foundation, he avoided roughly $25,000 in capital gains taxes he would have owed.
If Mr. Romney's carried interest income in the last two years had been taxed at that higher rate, he would have owed about $4.8 million in federal taxes, roughly $2.6 million more than he would typically be assessed under current rules.
