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James M. Landis, a former Dean of the Harvard Law School who has d high posts in the Federal government pleaded guilty in New York Friday to charges that he failed to file income taxes between 1956 and 1960.
Landis could be sentenced to a year in jail and fined $10,000 on each of the five counts of the indictment. Federal Judge Edward McLean released him in his own custody for sentencing Aug. 30.
Robert M. Morgenthau, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, told reporters that Landis has since "filed returns for the years in question and paid the taxes shown on the returns." He said Landis has paid the government $92,492, about one fourth of which represented penalties...
Morgenthau refused to say whether Landis had filed the delinquent returns before or after government action had been taken. He did say, however, that the government does not customarily prosecute tardy taxpayers who have already started paying back taxes.
Dean DeLamater is starting on a shoestring budget of $57,000, derived entirely from student fees of only $570 a year. What makes this possible is his big hidden asset: the 300 or more U.S. professors who descend on Paris each year for research and sabbaticals. They can be had...