Full Disclosure
Oct. 1, 2007
Full Disclosure
In 2005 accounting firm KPMG avoided indictment for its work on questionable tax shelters after withdrawing defense expenses it had advanced to indicted employees. Fair or unfair?
Every once in a while a judge throws the book at the prosecutor, not the defendant. And when that happens in a white-collar case, the defense bar knows how to run with it. In June 2006, U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan held that federal prosecutors who pressured KPMG to cut off attorneys fees for 19 defendants in a conspiracy and tax-evasion case had v...
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