January 13, 2020
A former certified public accountant faces a three-year sentence for obstructing an IRS investigation after the U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to consider whether the jury convicting him received faulty instructions.
December 06, 2019
Faulty instructions led a jury to wrongly convict a former certified public accountant of obstructing an IRS investigation — for which he received a 36-month prison sentence — without proving all the elements of his crime, he has told the Supreme Court.
November 22, 2019
A former certified public accountant's 36-month sentence for obstructing an IRS investigation into a client cannot be challenged because an error in jury instruction was harmless and did not change the verdict, the U.S. has told the Supreme Court.
August 20, 2019
The U.S. Supreme Court should review an Eighth Circuit decision backing an ex-CPA's 36-month sentence for obstructing an IRS investigation into a client because a misinformed jury in the lower courts led to his conviction, according to a recent petition.