United States v. Klein

PALMIERI, District Judge.

Defendants Haas, Alprin, Roer and Koerner were subpoenaed to appear and testify before a grand jury that subsequently indicted them. They were charged in a five count indictment with three substantive attempts to evade taxes and two conspiracies, one to evade tax, and the other to defraud the Government in the exercise of a governmental function, namely, the assessment and collection of income taxes. The United States Attorney who questioned them before the grand jury did not inform them that the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States gave them the…