Evening star., 1942-06-03
GIassman Given Five
Years, Fucker Three
In Income Tax Case
Two Defendants and
Cob Company Also
Fined at Baltimore
special Dispatch to The Star.

epecial Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, June 3.-Herbert
Glassman, Washington resident and
president of the Sun Cab Co. here,
today was sentenced to five years in
prison, and Joseph I. Fucker, income
tax auditor. was sentenced for a
term of three years by Judge w.
Calvin Chestnut of United States
District Court, while both men and
the Sun Cab Co. were fined heavily.
The penalties were assessed on
charges of evading payment OF in
come taxes.
Glassman's fine was set at $4,000.
Fuckers was set at $1,000, and the
cab company, which pleaded guilty
today through attorneys on charges
of defrauding the Government of in
come taxes was fined an additional
5000
Judge Chestnut ordered that the
defendants should bear the cost of
prosecution. In addition, he said
that in imposing The fines he was
bearing in mind that the defendants
have additional civil liabilities to
pay the amount of tax evaded with
possible so per cent penalties for
fraud. The Government claimed
Glassman evaded approximately
$4,000 in taxes over a f1ve-year
period and the cab company evaded
taxes of s22,532.39.
Faces Other Charges.
fucker, who was charged with aid
ing and abetting GlaSSman in his
evasion, pleaded not guilty today in
three other cases, one of which was
the case in which the cab company
was fined. Fucker also is charged
in a case accusing District Under
writer's, Inc. and Edward c. OStrow,
another executive of the Sun Cab
Co: in still another case charging
him jointly with Ostrow IN connec-
ton with Ostrow's tax return, and
in a final case involving his own
individual tax return.
OstroW likewise pleaded not
guilty. The underwriting concern,
which had been dissolved, also
pleaded not guilty. Those cases
were left for subsequent disposition.
While Glassman today pleaded
guilty in the case involving the
cab company and the underwriting
concern case, the fve-year penalty
pronounced by Judge Chestnut was
made concurrent with the original
fines we're imposed.
Today, two weeks after jury
brought in the verdict which con-
victed both of them, Glassman and
fucker tried to put the blame on
each other. Both took the witness
stand before Judge Chestnut tenn
porarily. GlaSsman, at the original
trial, said the evasions were due to
Fuckers work in filling out the
returns.
Fucker, although he had been an
income tax auditor for several years
and had been a lecturing accountant
at a college, asserted he had made a
mistake" by taking data without
checking on it.
The judge said the verdict of the
Jury must have meant that the jury
did not believe either of the defend
ants, but thought they must have
been in "collusion."
Glassman, who resides in the
4SOO block of Colorado avenue NV,
was convicted here in 1881 of con-
spring to violate the Federal pro-
hibition laws and was sentenced
to two years imprisonment and |
fined SIS 900.
He was then proprietor of two
garages here, one in the 2100 block |
of Fourteenth street and the other
in the 1900 block of L street NV,
which police said we're being used as
distribution points for liquor brought
in from Baltimore.
Owns Property Here.
Glassman reported to police in
1893 that he had been robbed of
$1,000 in a room at a downtown |
hotel. where he had been lured by
a telephone call from man who
represented himself as interested
in buying used taxicabs. Glassman
was then the president of the City
Cab Co.
The Internal Revenue Bureau
saws he owns several buildings here
and is associated with a finance
company in the District.