Legal Opinion
Menzies v. Seyfarth Shaw LLP
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided July 15, 2016No. Case No. 15 C 3403PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
John Robert Blakey, United States District Judge
Plaintiff is a rich man who, ostensibly through hard work and good fortune, put himself in a position to sell over sixty million dollars in stock in a company he helped create. No crime in that, closing on such a sale exemplifies part of the American Dream. But when lawyers and financial consultants sold him on a 100% tax avoidance plan to save him millions on the deal, Plaintiff later paid the price to Uncle Sam with an even bigger IRS bill. Any crime in that? Plaintiff claims it constitutes civil racketeering and…
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