November 20, 2025
A former professor must pay the entire nearly $438,000 penalty the Internal Revenue Service assessed against him for his failure to timely disclose foreign bank accounts, a California magistrate judge held, finding the amount is not unconstitutionally excessive and declining to reduce it.
July 16, 2025
A retired professor's admission in U.S. Tax Court that his failure to report his foreign bank accounts caused tax losses shows that a California federal court should affirm tax penalties against him of more than $400,000, the U.S. government said.
December 04, 2024
An 86-year-old former professor told a California federal court that he raised his Eighth Amendment rights against excessive fines when defending himself against a $545,000 penalty for failing to report foreign bank accounts, disputing arguments by the U.S. government that he had waived those rights.
November 27, 2024
An 86-year-old former professor cannot claim that his $545,000 penalty for failing to report foreign bank accounts violates the Eighth Amendment, the U.S. told a federal court, saying the penalty is neither excessive nor a fine, and that he never raised the argument before.
November 13, 2024
An 86-year-old former college professor's penalty of $545,000 for failing to report foreign bank accounts is excessive and violates the Eighth Amendment, he told a California federal court.
October 07, 2024
An 86-year-old former college professor faces more than $500,000 plus interest in penalties after a jury found that he had deliberately failed to report his foreign bank accounts in Switzerland and Turkey, according to documents filed in a California federal court.