United States v. Isadore Verlinsky, A/K/A Isadore Verlin, and Murray Verlinsky, A/K/A Murray Verlin

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING

In its petition for rehearing, the government points out that the order of the referee granting the taxpayers’ discharge in bankruptcy was appealed to and upheld by the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of New York,1 and thereafter this decision was appealed to and affirmed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.2 Based on these appeals, the argument is made that the discharge did not become final until 90 days after the Second Circuit’s affirmance (the deadline for filing a petition for certiorari in the Supreme Court) and…