In the federal case, Mr. Rodriguez admitted that he evaded corporate income taxes by cashing, rather than depositing, more than $1 million in checks from a business that provided office buildings with security systems and locksmith services.
Describing the mood at The Sun as "a feeling of being under siege," Mr. Kavanagh said that his Sun colleagues saw the continuing arrests as a "witch hunt" in which the Murdoch hierarchy was seeking to evade corporate accountability by shifting responsibility for criminal wrongdoing to individual journalists.
Federal prosecutors, according to the document, are pursuing allegations that Gero Vita evaded corporate income taxes by falsely increasing deductible expenses and transferring millions of dollars to off-shore accounts controlled by Mr. Braswell, enabling him to hide that money from the Internal Revenue Service.
Nova Lanktree, who matches athletes to companies, said Iverson is a rare example of a sports star who seems capable of evading the corporate requirement that its endorsers be free of public taint or the risk of breaching a morality clause.
According to people involved in the inquiry, federal prosecutors are now examining whether Mr. Torricelli's campaign used the Bergen County group to evade restrictions on corporate donations.
Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed hundreds of pages of documents from the Morris County Democratic Committee as they try to determine whether Senator Robert G. Torricelli's 1996 campaign improperly used county organizations to evade restrictions on corporate donations, people involved in the case said yesterday.
"Any allegation or assertion that there is or was a corporate policy of evading the law in conjunction with the B-1 visa program is simply not accurate," Ted Bockius, an Infosys spokesman, said Thursday.
An increased reliance on indirect taxation without action against those evading the system and those individuals and corporates that are pillaging the revenue base is a recipe for further inequality.
BET is also mired in a $21 million federal lawsuit filed by its former CFO, Dwight Crawford, Dwight Crawford who alleges that he was fired for opposing improper financial practices during his one-year tenure at BET. Crawford claims that the company tried to evade paying some 1999 corporate income taxes.
