USA v. Daugerdas et al

  1. September 13, 2012

    Ex-Jenkens Atty Admits Role In $100M Tax Shelter Fraud

    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.

  2. September 05, 2012

    Feds Fight Ex-Deutsche Broker's New Trial Bid In Tax Case

    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.

  3. August 14, 2012

    Feds Seek To Block Jury Interviews In Jenkens Retrial

    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.

  4. August 08, 2012

    Convicted Ex-Deutsche Broker Says Atty Failed to Vet Juror

    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.

  5. June 04, 2012

    3 Jenkens Defendants Get New Trial Over Juror's Lies

    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.

  6. April 20, 2012

    US Says Jenkens Juror Dishonest, Not Biased

    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.

  7. April 06, 2012

    Jenkens Tax Cheats Say 'Mentally Ill' Juror Calls For New Trial

    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.

  8. February 15, 2012

    Juror Admits She Lied Her Way Into Jenkens Tax Shelter Case

    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.

  9. November 15, 2011

    Juror Lies May Give Convicted Tax Cheat Attys New Trial

    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.

  10. October 28, 2011

    Ex-J&G Attys Rip Prosecutors For Downplaying Juror Lies

    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."