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• holding that failure to file income tax returns is not \conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice\ because the \misconduct did not bear directly upon any decision or the decision-making process of any tribunal.\
• concluding that respondent’s communications were dishonest where “respondent knew what information the IRS was after, but for his own benefit refrained from supplying that information even when asked questions that grazed the truth”
• noting that “this is not the first time that our court has been called upon to discipline respondent for tax-related offenses”
• conviction of tax evasion and willful failure to pay taxes held not to involve moral turpitude
• dishonesty includes 8 Disciplinary Counsel did not take exception to the Hearing Committee’s conclusion that this charged Rule 8.4(d
• “the concept has commonly been found to involve intentional dishonesty for personal gain”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).