United States v. Joseph T. Jalbert

ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.

Defendant Jalbert, a college graduate who had also had one year in law school and had been a special agent of the F. B.I., became a Dover, New Hampshire businessman with interests in several enterprises. He was convicted, after a jury trial, of filing false income tax returns in violation of 26 U.S.C. § 7201 for the years 1968, 1969 and 1970. Substantial unreported items were fully established, largely by direct evidence. The returns, signed by the defendant, were prepared by others on the basis of information supplied by defendant, and the omissions in the…