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U.S. v. MEWS

No. 90-2578.

923 F.2d 67 (1991)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Levi R. MEWS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 17, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mel S. Johnson, Asst. U.S. Atty., Milwaukee, Wis., for plaintiff-appellee.

Robert E. Meldman, Mulcahy & Wherry, Robert E. Dallman, Reinhart, Boerner, Van Deuren, Norris & Rieselbach, Milwaukee, Wis., William F. Garrow, Reinhart, Boerner, Van Deuren, Norris & Rieselbach, Denver, Colo., for defendant-appellant.

Before POSNER and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges, and GRANT, Senior District Judge.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

A jury convicted Levi Mews of filing a false income tax return in 1982, in which he reported taxable income of $2,600, and in 1983, in which he reported taxable income of $4,640. 26 U.S.C. § 7206(1). The judge sentenced Mews to thirty months in prison and fined him $50,000. The principal question is whether certain transfers between corporations wholly owned by Mews were "constructive dividends...

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