United States v. Patricia Lynn Hough
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
ED CARNES, Chief Judge:
It may be, as the Downton Dowager bemoaned, that “[l]ie is so unmusical a word,” 1 but it strikes the right note for some of the statements that Dr. Patricia Lynn Hough made in her tax returns. So does 26 U.S.C. § 7206(1), which provides a penalty of imprisonment for a person who willfully files a return “which [she] does not believe to be true and correct as to every material matter.” That is one of the statutes that Hough was convicted of violating. The other is 18 U.S.C. § 371, which prohibits conspiring to defraud an agency of the United States, including the IRS.…
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