A federal judge declined Tuesday to grant separate trials for 18 people -- mostly financial professionals or attorneys affiliated with accounting firm KPMG -- charged in a tax shelter scheme that's been called the largest criminal tax fraud case in history. The judge also rejected a defense argument that the indictment should be dismissed because the government had pressured KPMG-affiliated witnesses to "sing out of the government's hymn book, regardless of the facts and their personal beliefs."
April 06, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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A federal judge in New York declined Tuesday to grant separate trials for 18 people charged in a tax shelter scheme for the rich that the government has called the largest criminal tax fraud case in history.
U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan said much of the evidence supporting the 46-count indictment that charges the defendants with conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service would be used against all the defendants.
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