Under public pressure, the Ethics Committee — made up of equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats — took up the case and hired an outside counsel, Washington lawyer James Cole, to conduct the investigation. It is hard to convey today how much the ...more »
February 1, 2012 Three Indicted of Tax Evasion using UBS Three men who are former UBS clients, were indicted on charges of hiding millions of dollars in taxable income from the IRS using their offshore accounts. Two of the three, Stephen M. Kerr and ...more »
Frank R. Demmerly, Jr. is chairman of the Estate and Trust Department of Archer & Greiner law firm in Haddonfield, where he concentrates on estate planning, wills, trusts, planning for closely held and family businesses, estate administration, ...more »
With tax season here, attorneys at Beaumont Divorce want to make sure that everyone knows their legal rights to claiming deductions after divorce on a tax return. New Orleans divorce lawyers advise to work with a CPA or other tax professional to get as ...more »
Patel, of the UK, is managing director of Quartermaster's Ltd., a company that sells military and law-enforcement uniforms, according to court papers. He was scheduled to be retried in May after a jury last year failed to reach a verdict.more »
Detroit— Vito "Billy Jack" Giacalone, one of the area's most notorious organized crime figures and a suspect in the unsolved disappearance of ex-Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, has died. His death Sunday severs one of the last ties to a storied era of ...more »
Vito Giacalone's arrest record dated to the 1940s and included prison stints for a variety of crimes, including possession of a blackjack, gambling, racketeering and hiding money from the IRS. The Detroit Mafia is far from its heyday, when it owned ...more »
The amount is far less than the $1014283 tax assessed by the IRS. Andrezeski does not dispute that Beeman failed to file his tax returns for several years and that the judgment entered against Beeman was inflated because Beeman failed to provide ...more »
Trials/Appeals Stanford's Secret Loans From His Bank Known to IRS, Lawyer Says Internal Revenue Service auditors knew about hundreds of millions of dollars R. Allen Stanford borrowed from his Antiguan bank to fund an array of private ventures, ...more »
By Terri Langford The Internal Revenue Service knew R. Allen Stanford was taking loans from his Antigua bank and found nothing wrong with the arrangement, the Texas tycoon's tax lawyer testified at Stanford's fraud trial Tuesday.more »
“In 1999, the IRS position was these were valid loans and should be treated as valid loans” between the bank and Stanford and between Stanford and his other companies, Larry Campagna, a tax partner with Chamberlain Hrdlicka, testified in the ...more »
... Revenue Service auditors knew about hundreds of millions of dollars R. Allen Stanford borrowed from his Antiguan bank to fund an array of private ventures, a tax lawyer who worked on the audits told jurors in Stanford's criminal fraud trial.more »
Seymour Goldberg, a Woodbury, NY lawyer and CPA with an upcoming book on IRAs, says the IRS is about to start an enforcement program directed just at IRAs. Meanwhile, as part of the IRS' new “high net worth” audit program, tax pros say examiners are ...more »
"The IRS would be very interested in those expenses," said former IRS Exempt Organizations Division director Marc Owens, now a lawyer in Washington, DC "Sounds like they had a kind of a sloppy back office." West's foundation listed just one program in ...more »
Is there any way I can find out more about this organization before writing a check? Frances A. McElhill is Chair of the Nonprofit Law Practice at Archer & Greiner in Haddonfield, where she specializes in the law regarding tax-exempt organizations.more »
According to World Radio Switzerland, the letters from Credit Suisse date back to February 2, 2012 and advise their US clients to hire a tax controversy lawyer and enter into the IRS's 2012 Voluntary Disclosure Program in order to avoid potential ...more »
Group 304 was created last fall in Braintree by local lawyers and partners in a tax firm, and offers services ranging from help with IRS audits to divorce counsel. By Joseph Markman Left to right: John Mullaney, Michael Modestino, Jim Henderson.more »
