United States v. Stein

MEMORANDUM OPINION

KAPLAN, District Judge.

Former KPMG partner Richard Smith and eighteen others, all but two formerly employed by or affiliated with KPMG, stand indicted for allegedly designing, marketing, and implementing fraudulent tax shelters for wealthy individual clients and deliberately concealing those tax shelters from the IRS. The government moves the Court for an order disqualifying attorney Robert Fink, Esq., and the firm of Kostelanetz & Fink, LLP (“K & F”), from continuing to serve as Smith’s counsel. It contends that K & F has conflicts of interest created by the prior…