Legal Travesty in the Kahre Case

Jacob G. Hornberger

11/20/2009

Federal Judge David Ezra has sentenced Las Vegas businessman Robert Kahre to serve 15 years in the federal penitentiary. What a travesty of justice. The man no more belongs in jail than, say, Plaxico Burress, the NFL player who was sentenced to serve two years in a New York jail for possessing a handgun for self-defense. It’s just part of the trend in America to send good people to jail for violating ridiculous regulations.

What was Kahre’s crime? He took advantage of a loophole in U.S. tax law and then openly and publicly exposed it.

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