LEWISBURG – A notice of a federal tax lien for more than $8 million has been filed against the daughter of Gov. Jim Justice.
The lien was filed March 26 in Greenbrier County Clerk Robin Loudermilk’s office by the Internal Revenue Service against Jill Justice Long. The document provides few details. Loudermilk confirmed the filing of the document, but said she could provide no further information.
“All we do is record it,” Loudermilk told The West Virginia Record.
What the lien does show is that all of the liens listed are for personal income taxes for Justice Long, who now is president of The Greenbrier resort.
A bulk of the $8,033,935.45 total is from her personal income taxes for 2009. That amount is more than $6.5 million. Justice Long was in med school in 2009. Her father purchased The Greenbrier in 2009 as well, and the Russian company Mechel bought the Justice family coal business Bluestone Coal for $436 million in cash and 83.3 million Mechel preferred shares.
Another amount of almost $1 million is from her personal income taxes for 2012. The other years listed are 2011, 2013 and 2017.
The residence address listed is 302 South Jefferson Street in Roanoke, Virginia. That address is the business address for several companies owned by the Justice family, including Bluestone Industries, Southern Coal and Justice Management Services.
The lien says the IRS already has made a demand for payment with no success. With the lien, the IRS can demand property and rights to property owed by Justice Long.
The lien also mentions the lien is being handled by the IRS Small Business/Self Employed Division, and it is signed by a revenue officer from an IRS office in Detroit. A spokesman for the IRS said the agency could not provide any other information regarding the lien.
In addition, calls and messages to The Greenbrier seeking information were not returned. The same goes for the Greenbrier County law office of Justice Long’s husband Adam Long. The governor's office had no comment on the matter.
A physician, Justice Long also practices at The Greenbrier Clinic. She is a graduate of Marshall University and The Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine in Blacksburg, Virginia.
In 2019, Jill Justice Long was mentioned in an Associated Press report regarding a federal subpoena involving The Greenbrier and Old White Charities, a nonprofit related to the resort. The subpoena seemed to focus on charitable work related to golf tournaments held at the resort.
Gov. Justice denied any wrongdoing in response to the federal subpoena. The Greenbrier did host a PGA event from 2010 to 2019 except for 2016 when flooding canceled the event. Although the parties had a contract through 2026, the event was removed from the PGA schedule in 2020 via “a mutual agreement.”
Gov. Justice and his companies also recently have sued two financial institutions over loans they made to him and his business entities. One bank called the lawsuit "a delay tactic."
