Legal Opinion
United States v. Raymond K. Horton and Billie Sol Estes
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 28, 1981No. 79-5444, 79-5477PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GARZA, Circuit Judge.
In the early 1960’s Billie Sol Estes was convicted of tax fraud and served a number of years in prison. One of the conditions of his parole from prison was that he would not engage in any promotional activities. Estes still has a federal tax liability which numbers in the tens of millions of dollars.
In the present case, Estes was convicted of one count of creating a scheme and artifice to defraud and to obtain money by means of false pretenses in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1341. He was sentenced to five years on this conviction. At the same time, Estes and the appellant…
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