United States v. Charles Howard Jungels

A jury convicted Charles Jungels of income tax evasion, filing false income tax returns, and obstruction of justice. Jun-gels challenges the district court’s denial of his motion to suppress and the imposition of the costs of prosecution. We affirm.

I. Background

Jungels was an attorney specializing in personal injury, medical malpractice and workers’ compensation cases who practiced in Granite City, Illinois. He accepted cases on a contingency basis which entitled him to one third of any personal injury award, forty percent of medical malpractice awards, and twenty percent of workers’…