virginian: RA has a responsibility to provided financial info to the court, a responsibility he has been not fullfilling. The 5th ammendment does not provide protection against providing any info, only info that may be incriminating.
There are other issues relating to using the 5th and facing jail time. If the government is providing evidence of what can be construed as a criminal offense, or in this case, an act of contempt, and you chose to take the 5th rather than refute that evidence, what is left for a judge or jury to render a verdict on?
RA is facing contempt charges. He is engaging in behavior that is clearly in contempt of court orders. Pleading the 5th does nothing towards resolving those charges, thus jailing him on contempt charges is not only inevitable, but perfectly legal.
