Colorado’s best-known tax fighter lived up to his cantankerous reputation Friday in a criminal case against him, getting his bond halved in an arraignment hearing and taking the prosecutor to task for trying to charge him thousands for copies of documents.
Douglas Bruce of Colorado Springs faces charges of felony tax evasion and bribery for allegedly skirting taxes several years ago. In an arraignment hearing Friday in Denver, Judge Anne Mansfield gave Bruce a delay until July 11 to review the evidence against him.
Mansfield also halved Bruce’s bond from $10,000 to $5,000 after he argued that he has close ties to Colorado and won’t avoid court dates.
Bruce is accused of failing to declare $178,000 in interest earned on more than $2 million that he deposited into a bank account for Active Citizens Together, a nonprofit he set up.
