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the decisions entered on March 13, 1993, pursuant to Dixon II.
The letter advised that assessment of the taxes owing, plus
statutory additions and interest, would be “approximately
$302,396.12.” The letter further noted: “Of course, your
clients’ advance payments will be credited toward the
assessments.”
DeCastro had several telephone conversations with
respondent’s officials, in which he maintained that the Thompson
settlement, as memorialized in the August 3, 1989 letter
agreement, was an enforceable contract, and that he was prepared
to appeal any decision to the contrary.
Bakutes prepared a motion that was filed in this Court on
June 9, 1992, seeking leave to vacate the decisions entered in
the Thompson cases, as well as the Cravens and the Rina cases.
Respondent requested the Court to conduct an evidentiary hearing
to determine whether the agreements with the Cravenses and the
Thompsons had affected the trial of the test cases or the ensuing
decisions of the Court.
On June 10, 1992, Judge Goffe granted respondent’s motions
to vacate filed in the Thompson and the Cravens cases. That same
day, Bakutes called DeCastro to tell him that the decisions in
the Thompson cases had been vacated. During this call, DeCastro
told Bakutes that in 1988 McWade had reduced the Thompsons’
deficiencies to keep the Thompsons in the case. Although he had
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