from the press release:
Assistant Attorney General Benczkowski praised the outstanding investigative work of IRS-Criminal Investigation and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations, and thanked the Justice Department’s Tax Division and the FBI for their significant assistance in the investigation. Assistant Attorney General Benczkowski also thanked the Criminal Division’s Office of International Affairs as well as law enforcement partners in France, the United Kingdom and Germany for their assistance in the case.
I remember hearing of this Panama operation many years ago, involving dozens of the wealthy and politically-connected. Was anyone else charged besides this 75yo accountant and his client?
I remember hearing of this Panama operation many years ago, involving dozens of the wealthy and politically-connected. Was anyone else charged besides this 75yo accountant and his client?
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I don’t recall who was charged at the time. The DOJ only lists some of their cases, not all, at least on their portal.
I tried to investigate the PACER angle last year for something else, but a) you have to have a subscription to it (legal offices do) and b) there’s no requirement that court cases be enterred into pace, it’s just that most are. So the rich and famous may have been charged, or may soon be charged. Because if you convict the lower level ones like the tax preparer, then you can go to court on the high profile ones and tell the jury you’ve already got a conviction on the tax preparer to this person, and if possible, the tax preparer implicated said the elite members.