Procedural Quibbles in Tax Fraud Trial Don’t Sway Fifth Circuit

The Fifth Circuit was unpersuaded by three individuals convicted of tax fraud, upholding their sentences and penalties Monday.

Tax fraud is “risky business,” Judge Carl E. Stewart wrote, and the arguments that Adam Earnest, James Klish and Christopher Randell offered the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to overturn their convictions based on what they claimed were deficiencies in their trials were not convincing. Their crimes, which crossed almost 7,000 tax returns and $10 million in tax fraud over a decade, led to charges of conspiring to defraud the United States by preparing and filing false tax returns ...