Dasen faces $2 million federal lien

The Daily Inter Lake

The Internal Revenue Service has filed a $2 million tax lien against Dick Dasen Sr., a convicted sex offender and former Kalispell businessman.

The lien is for $120,000 the IRS says Dasen owes for 2003 and $1.9 million owed for 2004.

The action by the IRS means there is a federal lien on all property and rights to property belonging to Dasen.

The state of Montana also has filed an $800,000 lien against Dasen for alleged failure to pay taxes.

He was convicted last May of sexual abuse of children, promotion of prostitution and four counts of prostitution. Police said he gave millions of dollars to women for sex.

Dasen is in Montana State Prison, serving two years of a 20-year sentence for the sex offenses; the balance of his sentence was suspended.

Dasen also owes $2.2 million to a girl who said Dasen sexually assaulted her when she was a teenager. A federal jury in Missoula awarded her $2.2 million and a U.S. magistrate upheld the amount of that judgment.

Besides his tax problems, Dasen faces civil lawsuits filed by former business partners and a woman with whom he allegedly had sex for money.

The girl who was awarded $2.2 million also has filed a fraud suit, claiming that Dasen transferred assets to avoid paying her.

During his 2005 trial, Dasen was acquitted by a Flathead County jury of a felony prostitution charge involving the teenager and another girl, although he was found guilty on other charges. He also was acquitted on charges of sexual intercourse without consent and aggravated promotion of prostitution.