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17 Apr, 2008 1:17 pm
... 't know; time will tell. But I hope newspapers will still be around. Dennis Pfaff: Yeah, so do I. I've still got a lot of ink in my
bloodstream, ... experts in this area. And ultimately, I want it to make money for this law firm. Dennis Pfaff: Also, as the writer and
reporter, I hope that it becomes a legitimate source of information for people ... TexasBar.com and technology editor for the Texas Bar Journal [4.10.08] Robert Scoble, video blogger for Fast Company.TV and author of the technology blog ...
16 Oct, 2008 12:34 pm
... current set of charges. They are former KPMG partner David Greenberg, investment consultants Robert Pfaff and John Larson, and Raymond J. Ruble, a former partner at ... can't lie to get out of paying taxes. The feds charge that Larson and Pfaff created a company to market their scheme. Clients relied on "opinion letters" written by ... 50,000 per opinion letter, plus hundreds of thousands of
dollars from Larson and Pfaff's company. The trial began on yesterday, just as a sitting juror advised the judge ...
17 Oct, 2007 5:32 pm
... month, the feds asked the judge to explore potential conflicts of interest by Bauer and David Scheper, a lawyer for ex-KPMGer Robert
Pfaff, as a result of a joint defense agreement they may have reached with David Amir Makov, who is now a cooperating witness ... the jury"
because of his or her "duty of continuing loyalty" to that former client, prosecutors said. In filings with the court, Larson, Pfaff and Bauer
denied the government's assertions; Bauer didn't return a call for comment. And you can ...
18 Dec, 2008 12:50 pm
... referred to as "an injustice." Greenberg's three co-defendants were not so lucky (if you want to call what happened to him lucky). Raymond Ruble was convicted on 10 counts of tax
evasion and investment consultants Robert Pfaff and John Larson were each convicted on 12 counts of
tax evasion. Sentencing for Ruble, Pfaff and Larson will be in March of this year. Each count could bring up to five years of jail time. With
that, the "largest tax fraud ...
2 Apr 6:52 am
... people evade more than a billion dollars in taxes." Here are more details: U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan sentenced former KPMG executive John Larson to more than 10 years in
prison; a fellow executive, Robert Pfaff, received more than eight years. The judge said Larson, 57,
and Pfaff, 58, were "centrally involved" in the brazen tax shelter scheme "that didn't pass the smell test from Day 1." He gave lawyer Raymond
Ruble ...
17 Jul, 2007 9:43 am
... , Carol Warley, Mark Watson, Philip Wiesner and Jeffrey Stein) because of alleged constitutional violations by prosecutors. Charges against three defendants (former KPMG partner
David Greenberg, and two former KPMG employees, Robert Pfaff and John Larson) still stand since those
employees could not prove that KPMG would have paid their legal fees in the first place. In June, defendants asked the judge to throw ...
19 Oct, 2007 8:27 am
... the WSJ law blog: "Last month, the feds asked the judge to explore potential conflicts of interest by Bauer and David Scheper, a lawyer for ex-KPMGer Robert Pfaff, as a result of a joint defense agreement they may have reached with David Amir Makov, who is now a
cooperating witness in the case and is expected to testify in the trial. The feds then asked the judge to preclude Bauer from cross-examining Makov based on evidence ...
15 Oct, 2008 11:13 am
... and ex-partner at Sidley Austin to face the charges. Here's the walk-up to today's trial from the NYT and a piece from last year in the WSJ, shortly before Kaplan delayed the trial
by an entire year. For the Manhattan prosecutors, a victory in the case against Robert Pfaff, John
Larson and David Greenberg, and Raymond J. Ruble, which is expected to last several months, could bolster its probes into abusive tax shelters. ...
12 Dec, 2008 10:59 am
The Associated Press reports that jurors began their deliberations yesterday in the trial of the remaining four defendants in the KPMG tax shelter case (David Greenberg (KPMG), John
Larson (KPMG), Robert Pfaff (KPMG) & Raymond J. Ruble (Brown & Wood)).
17 Dec, 2008 11:02 pm
Guilty on tax evasion counts, reports the Wall Street Journal: Robert Pfaff, John Larson (former
KPMG); Raymond Ruble (former Brown...
17 Dec, 2008 5:26 pm
... tax-shelter fraud case in U.S. history. Click here, here, here, here and here for earlier posts on the KPMG matter. After a two-month trial, the jury of nine women and three men
found ex-KPMG tax partner Robert Pfaff, ex-KPMG senior tax manager John Larson and ex-Sidley &
Austin lawyer Raymond J. Ruble guilty on multiple counts of tax evasion. They were each acquitted of conspiracy and one count of tax evasion. Ruble ...
18 Dec, 2008 2:36 pm
... and a lawyer on tax-evasion charges in a case once billed as the largest tax-shelter fraud case in U.S. history. After a two-month trial, the jury of nine women and three men found
former KPMG tax partner Robert Pfaff, former KPMG senior tax manager John Larson and former Brown
& Wood lawyer Raymond J. Ruble guilty on multiple counts of tax evasion. Here's what Joe Kristan of Tax Updates Blog says, Thus ends the big ...
18 Dec, 2008 11:41 pm
... to claim falsely that they had taken sizeable loans to buy stock, according to the government. Clients allegedly paid fees equal to 7 percent of the amount of losses sought. After a
two month trial, former KPMG tax partner Robert Pfaff, former KPMG senior tax manager John Larson,
and attorney Raymond J. Ruble were found guilty on multiple counts of tax evasion. Another former KPMG tax partner was acquitted on the five counts of tax ...
18 Dec, 2008 4:23 pm
... a jury found him guilty on ten counts of tax evasion. Ruble wrote about 600 such letters between the late 1990s and 2003 and was paid about $50,000 for each. The jury convicted two
KPMG consultants, Robert Pfaff and John Larson, on twelve counts of tax evasions. They are all
scheduled to be sentenced in March. As the NYLJ notes, the KPMG case will be most remembered for Judge Lewis Kaplan's decision in 2006 to dismiss charges against 13 of ...
2 Apr 8:27 am
... all over the news today. First off, New York federal judge Lewis Kaplan yesterday handed down criminal sentences in a long-running prosecution alleging that KPMG sold improper tax
shelters. Former KPMG tax partner Robert Pfaff was sentenced to 97 months in prison and ex-KPMG tax
manager John Larson lands a 121-month sentence. More notable for us, though, attorney Raymond J. Ruble, a 63-year-old former Brown & ...
24 Sep 2:40 am
Wall Street Journal: Ex-KPMG Tax Partner Pleads Guilty In Tax-Shelter Case, by Chad Bray: Former KPMG LLP tax partner Robert Pfaff pleaded guilty Wednesday to criminal charges in an alleged fraudulent tax-shelter scheme involving transactions in the U.S. and Saipan. ... He faces up
to 51 months to 60 months...
24 Apr, 2008 4:39 pm
... LinkedIn Status with my latest blog post. Interested in hearing more? Recent LexBlog Q & A posts: Kevin Livingston & Dennis Pfaff,
the editorial team behind Thelen's Climate Law Update [4.17.08] Anita Campbell, editor-in-chief of Small Business ... legal blogosphere [4.11.08] John Sirman, manager of TexasBar.com
and technology editor for the Texas Bar Journal [4.10.08] Robert Scoble, video blogger for Fast Company.TV and author of the technology blog
Scobleizer [4.8.08] Or, see our full list ...
11 Feb, 2007 8:19 am
... be here." Judge Roberts, who has practiced law 17 years, was named by Gov. Mitch Daniels 14 months ago to fill out the unexpired term of Judge Ben Pfaff, after he was removed from the bench. * * * The schedule calls for divorce cases to be heard in Superior Court 1 on ... Steve Bowers handles criminal
cases in the morning and divorce cases in the afternoon. The system was inherited by Judges Roberts and Bowers, as it was set up by their predecessors. "We've made progress
here," Roberts ...
15 Dec, 2007 7:38 pm
... and Sven Steinmo. It contains several insightful essays examining the frayed state of transatlantic relations -- particularly Steven Pfaff's comparison of the market for religion in the U.S. and Europe. Full disclosure: I make a contribution as well ... For more on The Confidante, check out
my bloggingheads with Kessler on the fancy new Bloggingheads website.. Supercapitalism, by Robert Reich. I've noticed an interesting trend with
Reich's books -- I find myself agreeing more with the arguments in ...
16 Jul, 2007 5:31 am
... 's estimates for a reasonable defense reportedly ranged from $10 million (Jeffrey Stein, represented by Spears & Imes) to $38-44 million (John Larson and Robert A. Pfaff, represented by Latham and Watkins and Overland Borenstein respectively). Among the factors defense
counsel reportedly identified as contributing significantly to the high costs of these estimates were the volume of documents at issue in the case (estimated at 15-22 ...
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