Louis J. Taglianetti v. United States

COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction under 26 U.S.C. § 7201 for income tax evasion during the calendar years 1956, 1957, and 1958. Appellant alleges failure of proof of an essential element of the government's prosecution under the "cash expenditure" method of establishing unreported taxable income, errors in various rulings and in the instructions of the district court at trial, and error in the court's consideration and disposition, pursuant to our earlier remand, of the question of possible taint occasioned by a wiretap of telephone conversations in which appellant…