United States v. Lawrence Dube

HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.

This appeal involves a former commercial airline pilot who sought to satisfy his opposition to paying income taxes by belatedly getting “religion.” However, that only got him indicted and convicted of willfully attempting to evade and defeat his income tax for the year 1981, a felony, 1 of failing to file tax returns for the years 1981,1982, and 1983, 2 and of submitting during the latter part of 1982 3 three false Employee’s Withholding Allowance Certificates (Form W-4) to his employer, these latter charges being misdemeanors. The defendant was acquitted…