Maryland State Bar Ass'n v. Callanan

Robert J. Callanan, the respondent in this disciplinary proceeding, was admitted to the bar of Maryland in 1951 and since that time has practiced law in Baltimore City. On October 20, 1970 he was convicted in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland and subsequently sentenced to six months imprisonment for willfully attempting to evade the payment of almost $31,000 in income taxes due the United States for the years 1962 and 1963. Internal Revenue Code of 1954, § 7201. This conviction was affirmed in United States v. Callanan, 450 F. 2d 145 (4th Cir. 1971). In its…