The Rucki Saga Continues

                                                        (Sandra Grazzini-Rucki)
David Rucki is planning on violating another court order, but it is his ex-wife who will be in the proverbial hot seat.

David Rucki has been required to provide detailed financial documents in his child support hearing, but I have learned that he will refuse, arguing that he’s concerned that tax documents will be leaked if he provides them in court.

Though David Rucki received 100% of their multi-million-dollar estate- including a multi-million dollar business, four homes, and nine classic cars- a Magistrate named Maria Pastoor still found in 2016 that Sandra Grazzini-Rucki owed her ex-husband $975 monthly in child support.

Grazzini-Rucki has been fighting the order ever since.
There are only two Rucki children (they have five total) who are now under eighteen- they had three under 18 at the time of the order- so that has now been reduced to $848 per month. 

On July 19, 2018, Magistrate Judge Jan Davidson held a hearing on a motion by Grazzini-Rucki to reduce her child support.

At that hearing, Davidson noted, “she did not have any information about Mr. Rucki’s current employment and it appears that his wages were coming from his own company.” according to a filing by Grazzini-Rucki. 

David Rucki was then ordered by Davidson to hand over his tax returns and other personal financial documents.

“I will not be turning over my tax returns and/or private financial documents,” David Rucki is planning on saying.

Furthermore, he’s provided his ex-wife with no tax documentation while I’ve learned he most recently claimed to make less than $25,000 yearly, without ever providing proof.

He further states that his income has not changed since 2016, a dubious statement given he’s a multi-millionaire now claiming to make less than $25,000 per year.

It is a laughable figure since he lives in Lakeville, Minnesota, one of the most affluent suburbs in the country.
The assertion is even more laughable given that David Rucki claims to work for TL Rucki Trucking, a company he's owned but recently claimed was moved into his sister's name a couple years ago. 

It’s the latest in a series of moves by the new judge, Jan Davidson, which has continued a pattern of harassment against by Dakota District Court against Grazzini-Rucki.

Davidson has refused to mail to Grazzini-Rucki her order (which required the production of loads of documents) from the previous hearing.

She continues to allow Lisa Elliott to serve Michelle MacDonald, who was Grazzini-Rucki’s attorney but has since been removed from the case. Though MacDonald has not been on the case for approximately six months, Elliott regularly submits copies of her filings to MacDonald.
Meanwhile, Sandra Grazzini-Rucki is still on probation finishing her criminal sentence from approximately two years ago. With six felonies on her record, she has little hope of securing employment to pay the child support; she has been left homeless, moving from home to home, since being forcibly removed from her home in September 2012. 

What is Social Security Title IVD

Remarkably, David Rucki is attempting to collect this child support from his ex-wife using Social Security Title IVD funding.

Social Security Title IVD “was created under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act to help ensure financial support for children throughout the country. The IV-D child support program, federally administered by the Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE), helps parents establish legal paternity and obligations for child support, and to enforce support obligations. IV-D child support programs are operated by every U.S. state, managed either by the state or individual county of the applicant.” According to a statement from the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS).

In other words, David Rucki, a multi-millionaire with access to the best lawyers, is using a federal program which sends money to the state to hunt down his ex-wife and chase her for child support.

Remarkably, David Rucki qualifies because the program is not means tested; here’s more from the Minnesota DHS: “In Minnesota, most cases are managed by the county of the applicant and awards are made by the courts in that county (sometimes a second county could get involved if a parent moves). Child support services are available to anyone who applies (emphasis mine). To be clear, the Child Support program does not provide ‘financial benefits’ to anyone. It does provide services to parents who need to establish paternity, establish a child support order or enforce a child support order. These services are intended to ensure children receive financial support from both their parents.”

Because they are not means tested, Anne Stevenson, writing in Huffington Post noted of Title IVD funding: “These HHS policies created a new breed of dangerous Welfare Kings through HHS Office of Child Support Enforcement when it began subsidizing the homes and legal battles of the unfit, unwilling, and violent fathers.”

She quoted Larry Holland and Jason Bottomsly who said: “Despite the original intent of the IV-D welfare program, it now provides an incentive for the states to use their family courts to produce forcibly absent parents in order to increase the states’ IV-D welfare caseload.”

The Dakota County Operations Manager, Jean Baldwin, did not provide any comment, only saying that all these issues should be argued at the next court hearing, August 7, 2018 at 10AM Central Time.

Emails to Judge Davidson along with Lisa Elliott and Beau Berentson, the public affairs officer for the Minnesota Courts, were left unreturned.