September 13, 2012
A lawyer formerly with defunct Dallas firm Jenkens & Gilchrist PC pled guilty Thursday in New York federal court to helping wealthy clients evade taxes in a wide-ranging scheme that defrauded the government of more than $100 million.
September 05, 2012
Prosecutors said Tuesday that a former Deutsche Bank AG broker convicted of helping sell illegal tax shelters does not deserve a new trial, even though a judge overturned several of his co-defendants' convictions after learning that a juror was an alcoholic ex-lawyer.
August 14, 2012
Federal prosecutors objected Tuesday to a bid by a former office head initially convicted in the Jenkens & Gilchrist PC tax shelter case to interview the original jurors in a case in which he was found guilty but then granted a new trial because of a juror's bias.
August 08, 2012
A former Deutsche Bank AG broker convicted of mail fraud and obstructing tax laws told a federal judge Tuesday he deserves a new trial because his attorney failed to investigate a juror ultimately determined to have been biased against defendants in the case.
June 04, 2012
Three of the defendants convicted in the Jenkens & Gilchrist PC tax shelter case were granted a new trial Monday after the judge found that one juror, a woman who had concealed her history as a former attorney with a criminal background, had shown bias against them.
April 20, 2012
Prosecutors told a New York federal judge on Thursday that four defendants convicted in the Jenkens & Gilchrist PC tax shelter case should not get a new trial because of a juror's misrepresentations because the defendants have not shown that the juror was biased against them.
April 06, 2012
Four tax fraudsters convicted in the Jenkens & Gilchrist PC illegal tax shelter case argued Friday in New York that they deserved a new trial because the repeated, allegedly erratic behavior of a lawyer who lied to get onto the jury suggested she was mentally ill.
February 15, 2012
An ex-attorney admitted Wednesday that she had concealed her background, including her alcoholism and shoplifting, to secure her place on a jury that convicted two former Jenkens & Gilchrist PC attorneys and an ex-accounting firm CEO of selling illegal tax shelters.
November 15, 2011
A New York federal judge on Tuesday said an evidentiary hearing was necessary to determine whether a juror's alleged misconduct warrants a new trial for two former Jenkens & Gilchrist PC attorneys convicted of selling illegal tax shelters.
October 28, 2011
A pair of former Jenkens & Gilchrist PC attorneys convicted of selling illegal tax shelters renewed their push for a new trial in New York on Thursday, calling a juror's alleged concealment of a history of alcoholism and petty crimes a "monstrous fraud on the court."