In Re Spritzer

The respondent pleaded guilty to one count of an information filed in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey Charging him with failure to file a federal income tax return for the calendar year 1968. He was given a suspended prison sentence, placed on probation for one year and fined $10,000, which has been paid. It is conceded that he had failed to file returns for any year since his admission to the bar in 1958, although the federal prosecution dealt only with the years 1967 and 1968. The tax liability for those years amounts to a substantial sum of money, which has…