Milton Street Blasts City's Tax Case Against Him

by KYW's Mike Dunn

The City of Philadelphia’s law department is going after Milton Street, the mayor’s indicted brother who’s running for City Council, for nearly $400,000 in back taxes. 

And Milton Street is lashing back, calling it a political plot:

”I’m pissed off.  I’m angry!”

Milton Street was not taking kindly to word that the city government run by his brother is going after him for $392,000 in back taxes, interest, and penalties. Street says it’s a political effort by the city solicitor to hurt Milton’s chances of winning a City Council seat:

“I’m saying to you that the city solicitor has an invested interest in this election.  And his interest is that I don’t get elected.  And he came out with these false allegations.”

The city is basing its effort on information in his federal criminal indictment for tax evasion -- charges that Milton again rejected:

“The government will never in a thousand years prove that I had two million dollars. They’ll never prove that.  Never, never, never, never, never, never, never!"

City solicitor Romy Diaz says the Milton Street case is not political:

“He’s being handled as any other Philadelphia taxpayer in this particular matter.”