United States v. William L. Scholl, United States of America v. William L. Scholl

RYMER, Circuit Judge:

William L. Scholl appeals his conviction in the district court on four counts of filing false tax returns in violation of 26 U.S.C. § 7206(1) and three counts of structuring currency transactions in violation of 31 U.S.C. § 5324. The government cross-appeals the district court’s imposition of sentence. We affirm in each instance.

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Scholl was a Superior Court Judge in Tucson, Arizona, from 1984 until he was indicted. He was a compulsive gambler who took numerous trips to Las Vegas to gamble. Throughout the 1980s, he gambled on credit lines established at various casinos. In…