United States v. Lillehei

NEVILLE, District Judge.

Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, formerly a salaried professor in the medical school at the University of Minnesota and now presently and since 1969 in a similar or higher capacity at Cornell University in New York City, was on April 13, 1972 charged in a five-count indictment with wilfully and knowingly filing false and fraudulent income tax returns for the years 1964 through 1968. As a University Professor the doctor was permitted to treat outside patients for fees, which fees did not clear through the University. Such records as the doctor kept were maintained at an office…