Former IRS Commissioner Convicted of Tax Evasion

During the presidential campaign, former IRS Commissioner Joseph D. Nunan, Jr. made a $1,800 bet that Harry Truman would win the presidential election. Truman won and the Commissioner pocketed his winnings. Unfortunately, when tax time rolled around, he failed to report his gambling largesse. The commissioner’s shenanigans became public in 1952 whereupon he was charged and subsequently convicted of tax evasion.

After assiduously studying the case, David Selig of Selig and Associates posted the following opinion: “If the Commissioner had only known Doc Brown, he could have commandeered his DeLorean and traveled back into the future, viz. circa 2016, and retained Selig and Associates. Had we represented him, I don’t think you’d be reading about this now. In fact, we’ve represented several public officials, and because their cases were settled quietly, you’ll never know who they were.”  Attorney Bradley Dorin concurs. “I agree that the outcome of this case would have been decidedly different, inasmuch as no guilty verdict would be reached,  . . . but I’m not so sure about the whole Doc Brown thing.”