United States v. Linwood Gray, United States of America v. Harry L. Staley

HAYNSWORTH, Senior Circuit Judge:

In 1979 a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia indicted the defendant Gray on fifty-two counts alleging narcotics and income tax offenses. After trial, with a number of other co-defendants, Gray was acquitted of the narcotics charges and convicted of income tax offenses. He was sentenced to five years imprisonment.

Thereafter, Gray’s common law wife transferred the house in which she, Gray and their child lived to Gray’s lawyer, Kenneth Robinson. Allegedly, Gray also transferred a substantial amount of cash to Robinson, and Robinson borrowed $45,000…