The Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal on all counts is in the news. Acquittal or conviction (on some or all counts) was sure to become a political charged phenomenon. I don’t deal with the political issues here. I respond to a question I was asked yesterday as to whether Rittenhouse’s acquittal absolves him of potential civil liability […]
Tag: Tax Evasion
The much-anticipated indictment of the Trump Corporation and components and its Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”), Allen Weisselberg, has been released. The caption is The People of New York v. The Trump Corporation, et. al. (N.Y. Supreme Court – no number available). The indictment is here. (The pdf copies on the web were not adequately OCR’d; […]
The much-anticipated indictment of the Trump Corporation and components and its Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”), Allen Weisselberg, has been released. The caption is The People of New York v. The Trump Corporation, et. al. (N.Y. Supreme Court – no number available). The indictment is here. (The pdf copies on the web were not adequately OCR’d; […]
The much-anticipated indictment of the Trump Corporation and components and its Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”), Allen Weisselberg, has been released. The caption is The People of New York v. The Trump Corporation, et. al. (N.Y. Supreme Court – no number available). The indictment is here. (The pdf copies on the web were not adequately OCR’d; […]
This recent article is likely of interest to tax crimes fans. Asher Schechter, How Insufficient Enforcement Led to Prevalent Tax Evasion and Contributed to American Inequality (U. Chicago Booth School Stigler Center Promarket 6/24/21), here. The article expands on the recent publication of IRS data on the very wealthy by ProPublica. See ProPublica Publishes Series […]
This recent article is likely of interest to tax crimes fans. Asher Schechter, How Insufficient Enforcement Led to Prevalent Tax Evasion and Contributed to American Inequality (U. Chicago Booth School Stigler Center Promarket 6/24/21), here. The article expands on the recent publication of IRS data on the very wealthy by ProPublica. See ProPublica Publishes Series […]
DOJ Tax issued this press release: Florida Man Sentenced for Evading Taxes on Millions in Secret Offshore Bank Accounts (2/14/21), here. Key excerpts are: A resident of Palm Beach County, Florida, was sentenced to 24 months in prison for not reporting his foreign financial accounts from 2006 through 2015 and for willfully evading the assessment […]
DOJ issued this Press Release: Former Florida Resident Indicted for Tax Evasion and Failing to Report Foreign Bank Accounts (2/10/21), here. The thing that, I think, should be most interesting to readers are the naturalization charge which, apparently, relates to the tax charges (at least the offshore income and accounts). The key excerpts of the […]
I previously posted on the Brockman indictment in ND CA. One Big Fish Indicted and Lesser Big Fish Achieves NPA for Cooperation (Federal Tax Crimes Blog10/16/20), here. There have been some developments via pre-trial motion practice that I note in this blog. (Readers may follow these and future developments either on PACER (requiring fees) or […]
I write today about two related developments involving the tax misdeeds of private equity moguls that readers will have probably already read about in the popular news: (i) Robert T. Brockman the biggest mogul and alleged tax cheat of the two was indicted in the Northern District of California (the indictment is here and the […]