Robert B. Anderson, U.S. Treasury secretary under...
Robert B. Anderson, U.S. Treasury secretary under President Eisenhower, has been disbarred for tax evasion and illegal banking activities. Anderson, 78, pleaded guilty in 1987 to evading taxes on $240,000 in income for 1983 and 1984, and operating an illegal bank in which investors lost $4.4 million. He was sentenced to a month in jail and five months’ house arrest, fined $500,000 and ordered to enter an alcohol treatment program.
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