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Administrative Law Keyed to Breyer
United States v. Caceres
Citation:
440 U.S. 741 (1979)Facts
In March 1974, during an audit of Caceres’ 1971 tax returns, Caceres offered IRS Agent Yee a “personal settlement” of $500 for a favorable resolution. After reporting this to his superiors, Yee had no further contact with Caceres until January 1975, when Caceres revived the bribe offer. The IRS monitored subsequent face-to-face meetings between Yee and Caceres on January 31 and February 6, 1975, using a concealed radio transmitter on Yee’s person. Although the IRS obtained emergency approval from the Director of Internal Security for these recordings, they failed to secure required Department of Justice authorization. During these meetings, Caceres gave Yee $500 and promised additional payments. A Deputy Assistant Attorney General finally approved a 30-day authorization on February 11, 1975, which covered a subsequent meeting where Yee received another $500 payment, but this approval came too late for the earlier recordings.
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