Arm & Rage Wants Limitations on Enforcement Bureau in License Hearing
Broadcaster Arm & Rage wants Administrative Law Judge Jane Halprin to limit the Enforcement Bureau from requesting documents related to fraud and tax evasion charges against Joseph Armstrong and to issue an order clarifying that past allegations of fraud against…
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him are irrelevant (see 2205190050, said a motion in limine and a response to a motion to compel posted Tuesday in docket 22-122. Armstrong was convicted of making a false statement on a 2008 tax form, but acquitted of fraud and tax evasion, the filings said. Armstrong’s conviction followed his selling of cigarette tax stamps for a profit after changes in the tax rates that he voted for as a Tennessee legislator, but that sale was legal, the filings said. “There is no allegation that Mr. Armstrong made that false statement to defraud the government or otherwise avoid paying his taxes. He has been exonerated of that allegation, and that is more than enough to deem it irrelevant under Commission policy here,” said the motion in limine. The Enforcement Bureau has said in previous filings that it doesn’t intend to seek discovery related to the charges Armstrong was acquitted of, but has repeatedly referred to fraud in its filings, Arm & Rage said. “This proceeding has repeatedly referenced fraud even though, under Commission policy, suggestions of fraud are irrelevant and inappropriate. A&R respectfully requests that the Presiding Judge stop those references before they go any further. “