By PETER HUSSMANN
Sentencing has been set next week for a former Newton attorney who plead guilty to failing to file state income tax returns.
R. Eugene Knopf has now been scheduled to be sentenced on two counts of fraudulent practices in the second degree at 1:30 p.m. Friday, June 5, in Polk County District Court. Knopf, who plead guilty to the state felony charges on Feb. 19, was originally scheduled to be sentenced on April 23. That sentencing hearing was initially pushed back one week and then postponed indefinitely.
The June 5 date had originally been scheduled as a court furlough day. It wasn't known until Gov. Chet Culver signed a bill late Tuesday granting an emergency appropriation to the court system that eliminates the June court closure days whether Knopf's sentencing would again be delayed.
Four counts of fraudulent practices in the second degree were filed against Knopf in April 2008. The state alleged that Knopf failed to file state income tax returns for four consecutive years between 2002 and 2005. Court records further allege that Knopf did not file tax returns with the state between 1993 and 2000, though no charges were brought concerning those time frames.
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