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Treasury Nominee's Tax Returns Scrutinized
Timothy Geithner, President-elect Obama's nominee for Treasury secretary, failed to pay tens of thousands of dollars on his tax returns and employed a housekeeper whose legal immigration status lapsed while working for him. That's according to the Obama transition team and documents released Tuesday by the Senate Finance Committee, which is vetting Geithner's nomination.

Geithner admitted to making a mistake in his personal tax returns from 2001 to 2003. He learned of the error on his returns back in November, when he was being vetted for possible nomination to the Obama Cabinet. The mistake resulted in a $34,000 shortfall in his taxes....

...During his time with the IMF, Geithner was required to pay both Social Security and Medicare taxes for himself as both employer and employee. It appears that Geithner forwarded some tax payments but not others. For instance, he owed Social Security tax to the U.S. government. He did forward the employee portion to the IRS, but did not send the portion normally paid by the employer, which he was also supposed to do....