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Government Adopts Aggressive Posture in KPMG Tax-Fraud Appeal

New York Law Journal

January 25, 2008

Battle lines have been drawn in a 2nd Circuit case that will determine whether the government coerced accounting firm KPMG into refusing to pay the legal fees of former employees who needed to mount an effective defense against tax fraud charges. The government is taking an aggressive stance in its appeal, seeking to reinstate criminal charges against 13 defendants whose indictments were dismissed by Southern District of New York Judge Lewis Kaplan.

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