United States v. Fensterwald

The factual allegations of appellant Fensterwald here have taken him out of the *87class of the ordinary taxpayer, whose efforts at seeking discovery would, if allowed universally, obviously be too burdensome to the Internal Revenue Service. Cf. United States v. Wright Motor Company, Inc., 536 F.2d 1090 (5th Cir., 1976, McCree, J.). Fensterwald has alleged, and it is not contradicted, that he as an attorney represented James McCord, one of the original seven Watergate defendants, at the time McCord made his revelations to District Judge Sirica which contributed so greatly to the judicial,…