EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
In 1985 Harry A. Rider filed a petition in the Tax Court on behalf of Melvin A. Slavin and his wife Sandra. Rider represented that he was the Slavins' lawyer. The Slavins filed joint tax returns for 1977 and 1978; Rider's petition contested the Commissioner's determination that the Slavins owed another $340,000 in taxes, plus interest and penalties, for those years. Sandra was listed as a petitioner solely because the couple filed joint...
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