The Rhode Islander, who was the hit TV reality show's first winner, has been
charged with failing to report his $1M prize.
09.20.2005
Defiant
Hatch pleads innocent to tax fraud
PROVIDENCE -- Rhode Island's most famous reality
TV star proclaimed he was innocent of tax evasion and fraud even before his
arraignment on the federal charges yesterday morning.
09.19.2005
Survivor
Hatch declares he's innocent of tax fraud
PROVIDENCE -- Rhode Island's most famous reality television star proclaimed
he was innocent of tax evasion and fraud even before his arraignment
on the federal charges this morning.
03.11.2005
Survivor
winner says CBS was supposed to pay taxes
PROVIDENCE - Richard Hatch, the first winner of
the hit CBS reality show Survivor, said this morning he thought the network
was responsible for paying the taxes on his $1 million prize, and that's why
he didn't pay them.
03.04.2005
Survivor
star Hatch opts out of plea deal
PROVIDENCE -- Survivor star Richard Hatch is set
to face a federal grand jury on tax evasion charges after a plea agreement with
prosecutors fell apart this week.
01.31.2005
MoneyLine
by Neil Downing: How the IRS finds out
Richard Hatch may be the best contestant to ever
have taken part in a TV reality show. But when it comes to taxes, he couldn't
survive the scrutiny of the IRS.
01.26.2005
Survivor
winner arraigned on tax fraud
PROVIDENCE -- Why didn't Newport's Richard Hatch
pay taxes on the $1.01 million he won on the TV reality show Survivor?
01.24.2005
Survivor
winner rarely out of spotlight for long
The life of Newport's Richard Hatch has been a
tumultuous journey since he left his native Aquidneck Island in March of 2000
for tiny Pulau Tiga, off the Borneo coast, to participate in a then-unknown
reality TV show called Survivor.
01.19.2005
No immunity for Hatch with the IRS
PROVIDENCE -- He won more than $1 million on Survivor.
But Newport's Richard Hatch couldn't survive the scrutiny of the Internal Revenue
Service, which says the infamously nude contestant concealed, of all things,
his well-publicized winnings.
Andy
Smith: Hatch should have bared more on his tax returns
"What the hell were you thinking?" Newport
resident Hatch was the winner of the very first edition of Survivor, the show
that kicked off television's "reality" trend. He won $1 million.
01.18.2005
'Survivor'
Hatch to plead guilty to tax fraud
Read the federal
charges against Hatch
Read
the terms of the plea agreement
01.18.2005: Mark Patinkin: We Rhode Islanders just love reality TV
Now that America is TV Nation, you might say we
are what we watch. Which brings up an interesting insight into Rhode Island.
