A federal appeals court has upheld the tax evasion conviction of a Connecticut accountant who complained that the federal government searched files in his computer that weren’t covered by a search warrant. The case was closely watched because it deals with how much information investigators can seize from computers during a criminal probe.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the judgment of U.S. District Court Alvin Thompson, which convicted Stavros Ganias after a jury trial of two counts of tax evasion. Ganias was accused of failing to pay about $160,000 in income taxes.
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