United States v. Diesel

ORDER AND JUDGMENT*

NEIL M. GORSUCH, Circuit Judge.

A federal jury found Michael E. Diesel guilty of willfully under-reporting to the IRS over $3 million of his personal income over a three-year period. The United States District Court for the District of Kansas thereafter sentenced Mr. Diesel, inter alia, to 42 months of incarceration. In this appeal, Mr. Diesel argues that we should overturn his conviction because (1) he “could not possibly have had the requisite mens rea”; (2) the government unconstitutionally required Mr. Diesel to “create his own tax form”; and (3) the district court…