The convictions of two tax attorneys for conspiring to peddle illegal tax shelters at Ernst & Young were vacated Thursday by a federal appeals court.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit threw out the convictions on all counts of attorneys Martin Nissenbaum and Richard Shapiro in a conspiracy that included five different tax shelters from 1999 to 2001.

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