Opinion ID: 614361
Heading Depth: 5
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: Chandler's Participation on the Day of the Raid

Text: Taxpayers contend that in his 1967 brief in the district court McCarthy lied about Chandler's activities on the day of the raid. McCarthy wrote that after being called to Lukban's office on the night of the raid, and then following the hapless NBI agent to help sort documents, Chandler followed this Agent from the warehouse to the [U.S. Tobacco] main office and there had given some advice to the NBI agent. Taxpayers note that McCarthy's suggestion that Chandler was merely following the agent is incorrect, as Chandler chose to go to the main office on his own initiative. However, to the extent that McCarthy may have been suggesting that Chandler was merely following the agent, he was more likely making a mistake rather than a willful misrepresentation. Chandler's clear testimony during the suppression hearing had been that he had gone to the U.S. Tobacco main office on his own initiative.