Facing increasing criticism over tax problems and consulting fees, Tom Daschle has withdrawn his nomination for secretary of Health and Human Services.
Daschle said he is withdrawing because the dispute…
A Stanford Law School graduate who reportedly pursued a lucrative nonlegal (and illegal) career to help cover the cost of her student loans has avoided prison but will serve a…
As a major Swiss bank is squeezed between the secrecy law of its own country and a threatened U.S. prosecution for helping American citizens hide their assets, the government reportedly…
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled the Commerce Department has authority to impose a 20 percent tariff on enriched uranium imports from France under a U.S. anti-dumping law.
A New York real estate lawyer who reportedly didn’t file personal state income tax returns between 2001 and 2006 has been fined $10,000 after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor tax…
A New York tax attorney has been federally charged with extortion and harassment after allegedly threatening to send a secretly recorded, sexually explicit DVD to an unidentified former lover’s family…
A Paul Hastings tax associate was one of four people charged Thursday with insider trading based on information provided by the husband of a public relations representative who had information…
In addition to keeping prosecutors and white-collar defense lawyers busy, the alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme that 70-year-old Bernard Madoff is accused of operating under the guise of a purportedly…
Prosecutors have declined to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review a ruling that threw out 13 indictments because the government pressured the defendants’ employer to stop paying their legal…
Although the IRS lacks the resources to go after all of the estimated 20,000 U.S. residents who reportedly may have set up secret accounts at UBS AG in order to…
A Mississippi attorney who allegedly hasn’t filed a federal tax return since 1994 has avoided a trial in the felony tax evasion case he initially faced by pleading guilty today…
A lawyer who was an executive at Bank One has been charged with selling abusive tax shelters to clients of his employer and the now-defunct law firm Jenkens & Gilchrist.
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