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Show Crime Doesn 't Pay? Many Americans greeted the filing date for their income tax with trepidation. trepida-tion. But for two Americans it was a day to celebrate. On this past April 15 the six-year statute of limitations on prosecuting tax evasion cases expired. So the two, who had robbed the Eastman Kodak Co.'s Rochester, N.Y. plant of $837,567 back on March 9, 1972 had reason to smile. The statute of limitations for criminal charges had expired March 9, 1977. When asked his reaction to speculation of the bandits' celebrating their feat, Thomas E. Schoenwetter, an IRS representative in Rochester said, "I can't say I'd blame them." |