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Feds Finally Get (Some of) Their Men: 3 KPMG Defendants Convicted

18 December 2008

It had been billed as the “largest tax fraud ever” by the feds and the trial was set to teach those that set up illegal tax shelters a lesson. And then it all went very, very badly. Defendants in the case asked the judge to throw out the charges against them when it was revealed [...]

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KPMG Defendants File for Mistrial

25 November 2008

I’m not a trial lawyer. In fact, there are many, many things that I’d prefer to do than be lead counsel at a trial: sleep on a bed of nails, summer in the swamps of Louisiana, have dinner with Scarlett Johansson (I have a hate/hate thing for her)… Get the picture? With that, I try [...]

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KPMG Tax Trial Juror Dismissed, Annoys Judge

16 October 2008

I can’t wait for Hollywood to see the potential in this KPMG tax shelters mess. I predict movie gold! There’s nothing waiting in the wings yet (so far as I know) but the live coverage is just as good. After declaring the KPMG lead tax evasion scandal as the “largest tax fraud ever“, overzealous prosecutors [...]

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