Bloomberg Law
Oct. 24, 2019, 7:47 PM UTC

Pre-Trial Detention OK for Texas Attorney Charged With Tax Fraud

Aysha Bagchi
Aysha Bagchi
Reporter

A trial court was permitted to detain a Texas attorney before his trial on multiple charges including willfully filing false tax returns and witness tampering, an appeals panel ruled Oct. 24.

Jeffrey Stern participated in a 13-year scheme to defraud the IRS, even continuing to do so after being forced to pay fines and penalties in 2010 as a result of a civil audit, according to testimony from an IRS agent. Around the time of the federal criminal investigation into his activities, he was making around $3 million a year.

Stern has foreign bank accounts and ...

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