May 29, 2014
Federal prosecutors on Thursday asked a New York federal judge to be lenient when sentencing a former BDO Seidman LLP employee for participating in a tax shelter scheme with defunct Dallas firm Jenkens & Gilchrist PC that defrauded the government of more than $100 million.
May 12, 2014
Former Jenkens & Gilchrist PC boss Paul Daugerdas on Friday told a New York federal court that the government's $180 million forfeiture claim for his tax evasion and fraud convictions was based on charges he wasn't convicted for.
May 08, 2014
A New York federal judge on Wednesday denied a request by former Jenkens & Gilchrist PC boss Paul Daugerdas to overturn his tax evasion and fraud convictions, saying prosecutors had provided an "overwhelming" amount of evidence during his trial.
February 05, 2014
Prosecutors asked a New York federal judge to dismiss a request by former Jenkens & Gilchrist PC boss Paul Daugerdas to overturn his tax evasion and fraud convictions, citing on Monday a "tsunami" of evidence and testimony presented to a jury during his trial last year.
January 16, 2014
Former Jenkens & Gilchrist PC lawyer Paul Daugerdas asked a New York federal judge on Monday to reverse his tax evasion and fraud conviction, arguing in part that prosecutors had failed to prove transactions used in tax shelters lacked economic substance.
October 31, 2013
Paul Daugerdas, the former head of the Chicago office of Jenkens & Gilchrist PC, was convicted for a second time Thursday of conspiracy and tax evasion over his role in a scheme to create tax shelters for wealthy clients.
October 24, 2013
Juror mischief returned Thursday to haunt the tax fraud retrial of the former leader of now-defunct law firm Jenkens & Gilchrist PC, the same day he backed down from taking the stand in New York federal court.
September 12, 2013
In a saucy opinion released on Wednesday, a New York federal court squarely rejected a convicted former Ernst & Young attorney's attempt to avoid testifying in a related tax evasion trial because he already had plans for the Jewish high holidays.
August 12, 2013
The former head of Jenkens & Gilchrist PC's Chicago office sought Friday to exclude key documents from his upcoming retrial for tax fraud, arguing that one such memorandum has been repudiated by an Internal Revenue Service interview with two Ernst & Young LLP partners.
May 22, 2013
A New York federal judge on Wednesday denied a bid by a former Jenkens & Gilchrist PC attorney and the head of an accounting firm to toss their tax evasion charges for lack of jurisdiction, saying a jury could find evidence that they set up an alleged tax shelter scheme in New York.