The Third Circuit affirmed the civil penalties imposed for the defendant’s Bank Secrecy Act violation. The defendant claimed that the District Court erred when it found he willfully failed to report his foreign bank accounts in 2007 and 2008, and the IRS’s penalty calculation was an abuse of discretion. The defendant also argued the District Court erred by limiting his discovery regarding the IRS’s penalty computation and imposing interest as well as penalties under 31 U.S.C. § 3717.

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