Article: TAX LAUNDRY AIRED ON INTERNET COLORADO POSTS LIST OF FIRMS, INDIVIDUALS WHO STILL OWE STATE.(Business)

Byline: Jeff Smith, Rocky Mountain News

Staff writer David Milstead contributed to this report.

The state has launched a `Cyber Hall of Shame,' an Internet list of hundreds of businesses and individuals who allegedly owe millions of dollars in delinquent taxes.

The Web site list is topped by Marc L. Werner of Illinois, who the state says owes nearly $1.5 million of 1997 income taxes.

`That's a joke, considering I've never even been a resident of the state of Colorado,' said Werner, chief financial officer of a ladder manufacturing business founded by his family.

The list also includes Meyer Blinder, the penny-stock king ...

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