U.S. v. BAKER

No. 16-1415.

852 F.3d 97 (2017)

UNITED STATES, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Scott G. BAKER, Robyn Baker, Defendants, Appellees, Onewest Bank, F.S.B., Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

March 24, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norah E. Bringer , Attorney, Tax Division, Department of Justice with whom Caroline D. Ciraolo , Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Thomas J. Clark , Attorney, Tax Division, and Carmen M. Ortiz , United States Attorney, were on brief, for appellant.

D. Sean McMahon , with whom Eric J. Rietveld and McMahon & Associates, PC, Boston, MA, were on brief, for appellee Robyn Baker.

Before Torruella, Thompson, and Kayatta, Circuit Judges.


Scott G. Baker used a tax shelter to reduce his taxable income for the years 1997-2002. In 2008, he divorced his wife Robyn Baker in order to fraudulently transfer assets and avoid some of his tax liability.1 Following an agreed judgment for over five million dollars against Scott in 2015, the...

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