UNITED STATES v. WASHBURN

No. 73-2818. Summary Calendar.

488 F.2d 139 (1973)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Paul C. WASHBURN, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 20, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Saylor, West Palm Beach, Fla., for defendant-appellant.

Robert W. Rust, U. S. Atty., Miami, Fla., Scott P. Crampton, Meyer Rothwacks, Asst. Attys. Gen., John P. Burke, Max D. Wheeler, Attys., Tax Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, and DYER and SIMPSON, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Washburn, a tax consultant, was convicted in a jury trial of violating 26 U.S.C.A. § 7206(2) by preparing and presenting a fraudulent tax return for a client. Washburn not only prepared a joint return in 1968 for his client, who was estranged from his wife, when the wife had specifically rejected the idea of jointly filing and, indeed, filed a separate return instead, but Washburn also signed the wife's name to the return pursuant to a claimed power...

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