DOJ Targets Approximately 20,000 Investors As Co-Conspirators In Criminal Tax Fraud Investigation Of UBS.
The United States Department of Justice has opened a new front on its war against allegedly fraudulent tax shelters. On November 12, 2008, the United States indicted a senior executive at UBS AG for tax evasion. The indictment accuses the executive, Raoul Weil, of participating in a criminal tax...

White collared; Judge sends right message in tax, fraud case.
COLUMN: In our opinion A federal judge this week delivered a well-warranted dope slap to the kind of arrogance and abuse of trust that too often has tainted the image of the legal profession. In sentencing disbarred Princeton lawyer Alan Mason to nine years in...

Pastor sentenced for tax fraud.
Byline: Bill Bishop The Register-Guard A Junction City pastor and his relatives in South Dakota have paid more than $1.8 million in taxes, fraud penalties and interest for evading taxes through a shady trust scheme engineered by a Chicago firm whose representative is serving a 30-month federal...

Lynn Tillotson Pinker & Cox LLP Obtains $12.5 Million Verdict for Internet Defamation Case.
DALLAS, Feb. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- On February 6, 2009 a federal jury returned a 12.5 million dollar verdict for ORIX Capital Markets LLC ("ORIX") in the first major commercial internet defamation cases tried to verdict in Texas and one of the few tried to verdict in the United States....

Whiskey and the wires: the inadvisable application of the wire fraud statute to alcohol smuggling and foreign tax evasion.
I. INTRODUCTION In Pasquantino v. United States, (1) the Supreme Court held that a scheme to defraud a foreign government of tax revenue violates the wire fraud statute. (2) The Court further held that the common law revenue rule does not preclude prosecutions for wire fraud violations...

Lawyer admits to tax evasion; Fraud counts included in plea.
Byline: Lee Hammel WORCESTER - A disbarred lawyer who has been named in a state criminal case against the former chairman of the Worcester Election Commission has agreed "to cooperate fully with law enforcement agents and government attorneys." The agreement is part of the guilty...

'Secret' Offshore Accounts Targeted by I.R.S., But There Are ways to Limit Risk.
NEW YORK, Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The I.R.S. today signed an agreement with the government of Liechtenstein whereby Liechtenstein will exchange information pursuant to I.R.S. audits. At the same time, the current legal challenges against UBS, HSBC and Credit Suisse for aiding tax fraud have placed U.S. owners of...

BRIEFLY.
Byline: The Register-Guard Eugene man charged with income tax fraud A Eugene man is one of 13 people charged with participating in an alleged scheme to avoid paying federal income taxes. A federal grand jury in Florida indicted Jeffrey Jean Jenks, 50, of...

Former Political Party Officials in Puerto Rico Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for Extortion, Conspiracy and Tax Fraud.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two residents of Puerto Rico were each sentenced to five years in prison for their involvement in a scheme to extort a group of contractors in connection with the Superaqueduct construction project along the north coast of Puerto Rico, Assistant Attorney General Alice S....

Whistleblower Case Against New Jersey Hospital for Medicare Fraud Settles for $1.75 Million.
'Qui tam' lawsuit alleged hospital wrongly sought 'outlier' payments NEWARK, N.J., Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- St. Joseph Healthcare System Inc. has agreed to pay $1.75 million to the federal government to settle a whistleblower lawsuit that alleged the Paterson, New Jersey, hospital engaged in Medicare fraud by...