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122444P.pdf   05/06/2013  United States  v.  John Perry
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  12-2444
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Murphy and Colloton, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. There was more than sufficient evidence for a reasonable jury to find beyond a reasonable doubt, with respect to each count, that defendant committed an act of tax evasion within six years of the indictment; statements made to agent were admissible; no error in denying request for a Franks hearing as defendant offered no proof that the statements made in the warrant affidavits were deliberate lies or made with reckless disregard for the truth; district court did not err in its tax loss calculations; defendant's sentence was not substantively unreasonable; district court made clear that restitution was being ordered as a condition of supervision and not pursuant to Victim and Witness Protection Act or the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act, and the order needed not be vacated or remanded under an argument that the Acts do not apply to Title 26 offenses; no error in including interest in the restitution order; defendant's claim that allowing forfeiture and restitution would result in an improper double recovery was entirely speculative at this time, and the district court did not err in denying it; district court avoided any unfairness to defendant by providing that his restitution for the tax deficiency would be reduced by any amount the government recovered from his ex-wife.