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Criminal

Nov. 5, 2014

Government loses pair of cases against banking executives

The government's campaign to crack down on U.S. taxpayers who hide money in secret overseas bank accounts has taken back-to-back hits with two separate juries acquitting high-level banking executives in the past several days.


By Henry Meier


Daily Journal Staff Writer


LOS ANGELES - The federal government's campaign to crack down on U.S. taxpayers who hide money in secret overseas bank accounts has taken back-to-back hits with two separate juries acquitting high-level banking executives who prosecutors contended helped hide money from the IRS.


On the heels of an Israeli banker's acquittal Friday in the Central District in Los Angeles, a jury in Florida hande...

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