United States v. Stein

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

LEWIS A. KAPLAN, District Judge.

Defendants are charged with conspiring to defraud the United States and multiple counts of tax evasion based on a series of allegedly fraudulent tax shelters. The government originally indicted nineteen defendants on forty-six counts in a case that has been called “the largest criminal tax case in U.S. history.” 1 The indictment has since been dismissed as to thirteen defendants; 2 four now remain and are currently on trial. Additional background of this case is fully set forth in the Court’s prior opinions, familiarity with which is…