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Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Jun. 24, 2014

Ex-Reed Smith tax partner sentenced to a year in prison

James P. Kleier must spend 12 months in custody and pay $650,000 in restitution for failing to file his own taxes.

By Don J. DeBenedictis

Daily Journal Staff Writer


A former tax partner at a multinational law firm must spend 12 months in custody and pay $650,000 in restitution for failing to file his own taxes.


James P. Kleier, 58, pleaded guilty in May to one misdemeanor count of failing to file, but he admitted to not paying more than $1.3 million and to not filing federal returns for the years 1999 through 2010. U.S. v. Kleier, CR 13-277 (N.D. Cal., May 1, 2013).

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