Answer...
Well I guess none of you guys had the answer. What we did is we wrote the state with a protest letter, explaining everything and finally got released (verbally - a letter to follow) from this liability - since we were not in any way in charge of the financial decisions at the time...
We helped start a business in 2002 (a small restaurant - LLC) and sold back most of our shares in 2003, keeping only a small percentage (only 8%). The newest partner (42%) had forced the managing partner out and he had been running it (we had already moved out of state - FL in 2003), but then he...