IRS to auction $1 million Mequon home Thurs. Owner was a lawyer convicted of tax evasion.

Looking for a bully Mequon location and person astatine slightest $1 cardinal oregon truthful to spend? The IRS has a woody for you.

A 5,335-square-foot 4 chamber home, which includes 4½ bathrooms and an attached garage, volition beryllium auctioned disconnected astatine the Ozaukee County Courthouse Thursday. The spot is astatine 118 E. Springwood Court, and the merchantability is scheduled for 10 Thursday greeting astatine the courthouse successful Port Washington. Registration for the auction volition beryllium from 9:30 to 10 a.m.

The IRS describes the spot arsenic a "stately assemblage location connected a backstage wooded batch successful Beechwood Farms with earthy light, spacious rooms & a functional floorplan."

Bidding connected the spot that is present owned by the national authorities starts astatine $990,000, according to the IRS. The winning bidder indispensable wage for the spot with currency oregon a certified, cashiers oregon treasurer's check, the IRS said. Payments tin besides beryllium made utilizing U.S. Postal, slope oregon explicit wealth order.

The spot has a spot of a colorful history. It had been the location of Eric Lenzen, a salient Milwaukee lawyer turned criminal. He pleaded blameworthy past twelvemonth to not paying national taxes connected $3.4 cardinal of income. He was dubbed a "con man" by his begetter and was sentenced to 16 months.

His instrumentality licence has been suspended for disciplinary and different reasons.

Prior to his ineligible troubles Lenzen had led the nationalist Financial Services & Capital Markets Industry squad astatine the Milwaukee instrumentality firm Husch Blackwell earlier helium and six different partners joined Dykema Law, a nationalist firm.

A Lenzen defence lawyer declined to remark and hung up connected a reporter.

Contact Cary Spivak astatine (414) 550-0070 or [email protected]. Follow him connected Twitter at @cspivak.

This nonfiction primitively appeared connected Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: IRS to auction $1 cardinal Mequon location of convicted lawyer Lenzen