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On the recordDecember 7, 2009
The effect of not fully disclosing the full extent of your income, of not disclosing the tax return refund you are going to get, do I understand it correctly that the impact of that is that you actually have more income that you are not obligated to provide to creditors, but you still get the discharge of your debts at the end of the process?
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Adam Schiff
Democratic · California

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Schiff questions the implications of not disclosing full income during bankruptcy.

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