EA founder owes 180 million yuan for bankruptcy and rejected by court

(Compiled/Katy Fish) A San Francisco federal judge has dismissed a request from former EA founder Trip Hawkins to clear his huge tax debt, according to overseas media reports. Trip Hawkins, aged 57, has studied strategy and applied game theory at Harvard University and has received an MBA from Stanford University.　　Early in his career at Apple, he joined the creation of EA in 1982 and launched the world's first 32-bit mainframe specification 3DO in the early 90. In the middle of the 90, Trip Hawkins's personal wealth peaked and his EA stock was worth more than $100 million trillion.　　He sold his stake in EA in 1994, and the deal also generated a tax of 28 million dollars (about 183 million yuan) to be paid to the California local Tax office and the IRS. But the trip Hawkins the illusion of capital losses and property shrinkage by making a lot of false investments to offshore companies.　　By 2000, Trip Hawkins announced that his debt had been as high as $56 million, and that its main 3DO mainframe spec was officially bankrupt in 2003. Since 2006, Trip Hawkins filed for personal bankruptcy, demanding the cancellation of his $28 million trillion tax and a request to pay only 8 million dollars.　　After investigation, the court concluded that the trip Hawkins spent nearly 100,000 dollars a month on the alleged bankruptcy, and bought a fourth car worth 70,000 of dollars and continued to live with a spendthrift millionaire.　　This deliberate tax avoidance of trip Hawkins is not permitted under U.S. law. Now Trip Hawkins, chief executive of social gaming digital chocolate, has just won the latest round of $12 million trillion in financing, including Intel.