NEW YORK: A jury on Tuesday convicted two prominent lawyers, the former head of a major accounting firm and an accountant of mail fraud charges in a massive multi-billion-dollar tax shelter prosecution, ending a trial that featured a parade of wealthy Americans who told how they dodged taxes through complex investment instruments.
The jury also exonerated one accountant in the 10-year scheme that the government said brought the defendants $130 million in illicit profits.
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