That factor, known as transfer pricing, involves corporations' charging their overseas subsidiaries lower prices for goods and services, a common move that lowers a corporation's tax bill.
In the lawsuit, Mr. Selbin, who honed his skills taking on major corporations, charged that Ms. Huff's constant smoking made the hallway smell like a casino.
Smithers, a British investment consultancy, has recalculated the profits of 145 of America's largest corporations, charging the costs of options against income, and found that profits for 1998 had been overstated by 50%.
In 2002, a class-action suit was filed against FleetBoston, Aetna, and other corporations, charging that their predecessor companies had conspired with slave traders to "illicitly profit from slave labor".
In 2000, court records show, the government filed a 22-count indictment against Mr. Dupont and 10 others, including a stepdaughter, and four corporations charging them with health care fraud in a scheme involving false certifications of patients for Medicare payments.
The subversive show, a sendup of genre musicals from "The Threepenny Opera" to "West Side Story," takes place in a mythical city where water is such a scarce commodity that the public urinals, run by a corrupt corporation, charge exorbitant fees.
Olympstroy, a state corporation charged with overseeing much of the preparation, has gone through four bosses.
When asked whether any individual could be charged in addition to the corporation charges, Carmen M. Ortiz, the United States attorney for Massachusetts, would say only that the investigation was not yet complete.
These days Mr Chubais heads a state corporation charged with incubating nanotechnologies, a project central to the Kremlin's modernisation effort, and is going to be in charge of building the Kremlin's Silicon Valley.
Now, the Hudson River Park Trust, the public benefit corporation charged with developing and operating the park, is eager to see the allowed uses expanded to include office and residential development.
