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March 27, 2007 Walter Anderson Sentenced to Nine Years Jail
"Tangled Skein" is the phrase used by the judge in this federal tax case where Walter Anderson pleaded guilty to more than $150 million of criminal tax fraud.
As evidence of Anderson being a flight risk, the government presented items they seized from his Georgetown condominium in 2002 and 2003: books showing how to create a new identity and a fake passport with Anderson's picture from "British Guyana," a country name that no longer exists.
March 27, 2007 Walter Anderson Sentenced to Nine Years Jail
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In Anderson Case, Uneasy Role for Firms
Corporate lawyers could face questions in tax fraud trial
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A handful of law firms face being pulled into the largest tax fraud case in U.S. history.
. . . he case, in the U.S. District Court for the District of
Columbia, is focused on whether Anderson -- one of the highest-flying
telecom entrepreneurs during the 1990s -- allegedly used an intricate
series of transactions involving offshore companies to hide $450
million in assets from the tax collector.
. . . Among those, Swidler had the longest relationship with
Anderson. For more than a decade, it was Anderson's primary counsel on
dozens of business matters involving regulatory, corporate, and
litigation work. For a time, Anderson even lived in a building next
door to the firm.
. . . Swidler partners contacted for this article declined to
comment, but a spokeswoman for the firm issued a statement saying:
"Swidler Berlin was never engaged to provide Walter Anderson legal
advice regarding any personal tax issue. We have been advised by the
Department of Justice that it views Swidler Berlin attorneys only as
witnesses in this investigation."
LONGTIME RELATIONSHIP
There is no evidence that Swidler attorneys are -- or could be
-- the subject of any investigation, and prosecutors assert in court
documents that Anderson lied to his "accountants and others."
. . . Swidler provided corporate services for Gold & Appel early on. In 1993, according to a document obtained by The Washington Post,
Swidler attorneys filed a letter with the Securities and Exchange
Commission stating that "Anderson controls Gold & Appel and is the
beneficial owner of substantially all of the equity of Gold &
Appel." The letter, the Post says, states that the movement of
assets to the offshore company was "for valid business purposes and not
for tax avoidance purposes."
. . . As Anderson grew wealthier by investing in a series of startup
telecom companies, his relationship with Swidler grew. By the height of
the telecom boom, say two former Swidler attorneys who spoke on
condition of anonymity, Anderson was one of the largest clients of
Swidler's 80-attorney telecom group -- a practice with 300 to 400
clients, including companies such as WorldCom Inc. . . . Anderson's key relationship partners at Swidler, say lawyers
who worked at the firm, were rainmaker Andrew Lipman, one of
Washington's best-known telecom regulatory lawyers, and John Klusaritz,
a tax specialist who once lectured at Harvard Law School's
international business and tax program and who now chairs the firm's
corporate practice.
According to SEC documents, work from Anderson and the
companies he controlled went to other Swidler attorneys as well: Andrew
Ray, Morris DeFeo, Sean McGuinness. And other Swidler attorneys helped
Anderson and Gold & Appel buy and sell stakes in telecom companies
and advised him and his companies in dealings with federal regulatory
agencies. (DeFeo and McGuinness have since left the firm.)
. . . Swidler lawyers also represented Anderson in disputes with
other investors and the federal government. White-collar defense
partners Warren Fitch, James Hamilton, and Michael Levy represented
Anderson in the early phases of the criminal investigation into his
personal taxes, and as late as last fall, litigators Michael
Lichtenstein and Steven Tave (both of whom have left the firm)
represented him before the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a civil
suit brought by one of Anderson's business partners.... Lipman, McGuinness, Tave, and Levy declined to comment on
questions regarding Anderson. Klusaritz, Ray, DeFeo, Hamilton, and
Fitch did not return phone messages. ...In June 1997, court records show, Klusaritz filed a
shareholder agreement with the SEC for Telco Communications, a
Chantilly, Va.-based long-distance provider in which Gold & Appel,
with Anderson as its signatory, owned a 25 percent stake.
. . . Less than a week later, Telco announced its sale to a rival
for $1.1 billion. Gold & Appel, the Anderson-controlled offshore
company, ultimatelyreaped about $90 million in cash as well as several
million shares in the newly combined company. . . . The indictment against Anderson charges him with failing to
report more than $91 million in foreign earnings from Gold & Appel
that year. An SEC filing a year before the sale states that Anderson
"disclaims beneficial ownership" of Gold & Appel.
. . .
In 1999, a year in which the government says Anderson failed
to report more than $230 million in earnings, Esprit was sold to a
larger competitor. On paper, the deal meant a $190 million payday for
Gold & Appel.
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