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U.S. v. Coleman, 805 F.2d 474 (3d Cir. 1986)

November 17, 1986

A former high-level IRS employee started a consulting service and attended meetings with an IRS officer and taxpayers whose tax collection he had been responsible prior to leaving the IRS. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals held that the employee violated 18 U.S.C. § 207(b)(i) where his IRS appearance was an impermissible “representation.”

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