United States v. Tommy Joe Barrow

OPINION

KENNEDY, Circuit Judge.

Defendant, Tommy Joe Barrow, appeals his convictions for making a false statement in connection with a loan application in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1014, bank fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1344, income tax evasion in violation of 26 U.S.C. § 7201, and willfully filing false tax returns in violation of 26 U.S.C. § 7206. For the following reasons, we reject defendant’s assignments of error.

I. Facts

A. Background

Defendant was a certified public accountant who was the founder, as well as the controlling shareholder, of a Detroit accounting firm, Barrow, Aldridge &…