Sloane Affair

• NCJ Number: 77467
• Date Published: 1972
• Length: 0 pages
• Corporate Author: National Film Board of Canada
• Sale Source: National Film Board of Canada; Not Available Through National Institute of Justice/NCJRS Document Loan Program
• Language: English
• Country: Canada
• Note: *This document is currently unavailable from NCJRS. This is a 16mm color film. It is 52 minutes and 27 seconds in length. It is also available as a video cassette which is 52 minutes and 27 seconds in length. Rental is available.

Annotation

Beginning with an assessor's discovery of a questionable invoice, this Canadian film details the step-by-step Government investigation of a prominent and successful building contractor, Harold Sloane, who is charged with tax fraud.

Abstract

The film is based on case files taken from the Department of National Revenue (Taxation) of the Canadian Government. The film follows the course of the investigation from the time the Government investigators obtain a search warrant to seize files in Sloane's home and office to the time of trial. Government investgators are shown taking a typewriter sample from the typewriter of Sloane's private secretary, carrying out files, and interviewing subcontractors. In addition, Sloane's tax-evasion strategies are detailed, such as the falsification of invoices by Sloane's private secretary to conceal personal expenses charged as business expenses. The film also dramatizes the way in which the investigation affects Sloane's employees, his wife, who finds that her respected family reputation will suffer, and his son, whose sports car is now only further evidence for the prosecution. (Author abstract modified)