Criminal – Tax Fraud – Sentence – Loss Calculation 
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Published: February 15, 2010
Tags: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Criminal, Judge Allyson K. Duncan, Judge Dennis W. Shedd
In sentencing defendant for tax and wire fraud, a district court erred in calculating the tax loss from a non-random sample of audited returns, but the error was harmless and the 4th Circuit affirms defendant tax preparer’s conviction and his sentence for 48 months imprisonment.
The indictment charged defendant with knowingly causing to be transmitted in ...
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