In the most recent case of government’s crackdown on offshore tax evasion, a Florida psychiatrist, who together with her husband founded two Caribbean medical schools, was found guilty of conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service and filing false tax returns.
Department of Justice announced that Ty Warner, creator of Beanie Babies, was charged with federal tax evasion for allegedly failing to report income he earned in a secret offshore financial account he held with UBS in Switzerland. Warner ranks as # 209 on the Forbes list of richest Americans.
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