United States v. Eugene Clarke

How courts have described this case

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• holding that defendant’s tax returns “demonstrate that knowledge [of falsity] on their face” where they listed income and fiduciary fees of $900,000 “without identifying how this income was obtained” and claiming withholdings of $300,000 even though “no such funds were ever withheld”
• explaining that the government “need not prove willfulness in a § 287 case . . . . The government need only prove that [the defendant] made a claim upon the United States knowing that the claim was false.”
• finding knowledge where a tax return was “patently false and utterly groundless” on its face
• “[T]he government need not prove willfulness in a § 287 case.”

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