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case petitioners that his cases had been settled was also
reduced.
Messrs. Sims and McWade were the only persons in the
Honolulu District Counsel Office with knowledge of the Thompson
and Cravens settlements before and during the trial of the test
cases. Other than Mr. Stevens, no one else within the Internal
Revenue Service was aware of the Thompson and Cravens settlements
before or during the trial of the test cases through the times
that the Court issued its Dixon II opinion and entered the
initial decisions in the test cases.
Before the trial of the test cases, Mr. McWade intentionally
misled the Court, with the complicity of Mr. DeCastro, by not
disclosing the settlement of the Thompson cases when he moved to
set aside the Thompson piggyback agreements. At the trial of the
test cases, Messrs. Sims, McWade, and DeCastro intentionally
misled the Court regarding the status of the Thompson cases by
not disclosing the settlement of the Thompson cases. At the
trial of the test cases, Messrs. Sims and McWade intentionally
misled the Court in similar fashion regarding the settlement of
the Cravens cases.
Mr. McWade allowed Mr. Alexander to offer misleading
testimony to the Court during the trial of the test cases
regarding his understanding that his tax liabilities would be
reduced in exchange for providing assistance to Mr. McWade.
Mr. DeCastro did not act as a Government "mole" during the
trial of the test cases or convey any of Mr. Izen's trial
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