Eastside Al, get your facts together before reporting on someones inappropriate actions or lack thereof.
In 1993, a federal jury found Barrow guilty of tax evasion and fraud, and he served 18 months in prison. But Tom did not stop fighting the Internal Revenue Service over matters stemming from his conviction, and he scored what many observers call an unusual victory in U.S. Tax Court. Judge Mark V. Holmes issued an opinion that supported Barrow's contentions that he was convicted because of lies and deliberate mistakes by the IRS.
On November 25, 2008, the United States Tax Court issued its decision in Thomas J. Barrow v IRS Commissioner, 14551-02, in which it held that it found no fraud on the part of Barrow or his accounting firm surrounding tax years 1984, 1986, 1988 and 1989. While acknowledging that the civil tax court could not overturn his conviction directly, the tax court held that the United States government [[IRS) had made “startling” admissions which call into distinct question the validity of the conviction years of 1985, 1987 and 1988. In a direct rebuke, the court closed for any assessment the years for which Barrow had been wrongfully convicted, essentially validating the conviction’s falsity.
With the Tax Court opinion as ammunition, on December 17, 2007, Barrow filed a request with the United States District Court seeking to invalidate the convictions entirely based on the discovery of the agents’ deceit and the tax court admissions by IRS agents that they had plugged his records and had calculated false deficiencies. Tom currently awaits complete and final vindication from the District Court.