Biography
Inge Donato, known as Rose, was the bookkeeper for the McKee-Donato Construction Company and a member of the Restored Israel of YAHWEH, a small religious group whose members refused on conscientious grounds to pay taxes they believed funded war. The Justice Department gave her age as 44 in April 2004. She was arrested at her home on April 12, 2004 by IRS Criminal Investigation and released the same day on a 100,000-dollar personal-recognizance bond. A jury convicted her of conspiracy; the employment-tax counts were later vacated and dismissed and she was acquitted of all personal failure-to-file counts. She was sentenced to six months in prison, a 50,000-dollar fine and three years of supervised release, and served her term at the Federal Detention Center in Philadelphia from August 8, 2005 to February 6, 2006.
