Supreme Court Litigator in Tax Case Pleads Guilty to Tax Charge
A former partner at New York City’s Kaye Scholer who argued a tax case before the U.S. Supreme Court has been fined $10,000 for failing to file a state tax return.
John Howley admitted he knowingly failed to file a nonresident state personal income tax return in 2004, the New York Post reports. He received a conditional discharge that will result in dismissal of the misdemeanor charge if he also files returns for 1997 through 2006 and pays nonresident personal income taxes, interest and penalties of about $150,000, the Wall Street Journal Law Blog reports.
Howley represented the governments of Mongolia and India before the U.S. Supreme Court in a dispute with the city of New York over taxes for parts of U.N. mission buildings. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that courts could hear the dispute, despite claims of sovereign immunity. Howley left Kaye Scholer last April and now works at Philippines-based Davies Energy Systems.
