January 08, 2019
Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya, who represented Prevezon Holdings Ltd. in a high-profile Manhattan asset forfeiture fight and who later was linked to the campaign of President Donald Trump, was accused by federal prosecutors Tuesday of obstructing a tax fraud investigation into the real estate concern.
April 02, 2018
Just because investment company Hermitage Capital Management Ltd. ultimately won a long battle to see its former firm, BakerHostetler, removed as counsel for another company charged as part of a massive tax fraud fracas doesn't mean the law firm didn't have good reason to try to stay in the case, a New York federal judge said Friday.
February 02, 2018
A Russian real estate investing company implicated in a $230 million Russian tax fraud scheme must pony up a $5.9 million settlement with the U.S. government after a New York federal judge on Friday shut down its bid to try to prove that the government had interfered with the release of its frozen debt asset in the Netherlands.
December 14, 2017
Offshore companies that agreed to pay $6 million after the U.S. government seized their assets over their supposed link to a Russian tax scam argued in Manhattan federal court on Thursday that federal officials may have conspired with prosecutors in the Netherlands to keep some of their assets frozen, while a government lawyer said the companies simply took a legal risk and lost.
November 06, 2017
A Manhattan federal judge on Friday denied a request by a Russian lawyer whose meeting with Donald Trump Jr. sparked controversy to be temporarily admitted to the U.S. to take part in legal proceedings related to a disputed $6 million settlement in a cloak-and-dagger tax fraud case.
November 03, 2017
Government lawyers told a New York federal judge Wednesday there's no reason for a Russian businessman and his lawyer, who became embroiled in controversy after it was revealed she met with Donald Trump Jr. during the presidential campaign, to be granted entry to the U.S. for a money laundering and tax fraud case in which the government claims several Russian companies failed to make a $5.9 million settlement payment.
November 01, 2017
A New York federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Justice Department and several Russian companies implicated in a high-profile tax fraud case back to court after the federal government accused the defendants of refusing to make a $5.9 million settlement payment.
June 05, 2017
BakerHostetler pushed back Friday on Hermitage Capital Management Ltd.'s bid to be reimbursed for $1.4 million in attorneys' fees it says it spent to disqualify the law firm over alleged conflicts of interest, telling a New York federal court that the Russia-focused investment company has failed to back up its claims.
May 17, 2017
Russia-focused investment company Hermitage Capital Management Ltd. asked a New York federal judge on Tuesday to make its former lawyers at BakerHostetler reimburse Hermitage for more than $1.4 million it spent to disqualify the law firm over a conflict of interest posed by its work on a massive tax scam investigation.
May 13, 2017
Prevezon and other companies accused by the Justice Department of laundering proceeds from a $230 million Russian tax fraud scheme tied to a global human rights controversy agreed to pay $6 million on the eve of trial to end the dispute, New York federal prosecutors said late Friday.