Supreme Court Skips Convicted Geneticist’s Tax Deduction Case

The US Supreme Court won’t review the $360,300 tax deduction claim of a pediatric geneticist convicted of sexually abusing his research assistant’s young daughter, according to an order Monday.

The IRS didn’t allow William French Anderson, called the “father of gene therapy,” to deduct as business expenses about $292,200 on their 2013 tax return and $68,100 on their 2014 return in legal fees that he and his wife, Kathryn, incurred when he was convicted of abusing a minor and sentenced to 14 years in prison. The couple asked the Supreme Court to intervene after an appeals court affirmed that those ...