He reported customers' checks but not their cash payments, which shaved his receipts by 12% and cut his net to $50,000 or so a year, when he earned more like $150,000.
2005 was Johnson's sophomore year, when he earned first-team All-American honors.
He - well, he's hiding his taxes, too, but he's hiding his taxes in the years when he earned ordinary income.
Growing up, he said, he wanted to be an astronaut, a dream that persisted through his early college years, when he earned his engineering degree.
During Mr. Perry's college years — when he earned mediocre grades but was elected yell leader — and even after he enlisted in the United States Air Force, his mother returned the favor, hauling high school boys considering Texas Tech to A&M to be converted.
Woods finished last season ranked as the world's number one in the World Cup standings and won Great Britain's first freestyle skiing medal at a world championships in 20 years when he earned silver in Norway in March.
So the only question now might be how much his 2011 payday dropped from the year before, when he earned $19 million - roughly $5.4 million in cash, restricted stock valued at $12.6 million and other compensation.
A former college student turned strip-club bouncer turned pornography-company bodyguard, Ferguson found his calling five years ago when he earned several thousand dollars in a backyard boxing match in Miami.
He worked his way back to exempt status in 2002 at 85th on the money list; had his first $1 million year in 2003, when he earned $1.5 million; and finally won again in 2005, when he took the Valero Texas Open by three strokes over Olin Browne.
He added that after expenses, like rent on his Midtown Manhattan office, "my standard of living hasn't changed" from that of his later years as a prosecutor, when he earned about $100,000 a year.
On November 29, Johnson was named the ACC Player of the Year (POY), fulfilling the expectations set when he earned preseason player of the year honors.
