"hidden assets" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a phrase used to describe assets that are owned but not revealed to creditors or the public. For example, "The company had not reported its hidden assets, so it was difficult for the auditor to determine the actual value of the business."
Prosecutors restated their belief that he has hidden assets that could pay for his defense.
But, he said, investigators believed Mr. Dreier might have hidden assets overseas.
The judge said this "may open up substantial additional avenues of exploration" for the government to uncover hidden assets.
Prosecutors, pointing to the $822,198 that F.B.I. agents found in Mr. Bulger's Santa Monica, Calif., apartment after his arrest, had suggested that he might have hidden assets.
Mr. Sharpton -- as was his right -- was trying to defend himself against blistering charges that he had hidden assets in an effort not to pay.
While the number of Americans coming forward this year to disclose hidden assets has doubled, the I.R.S. said, it is still not enough.
The judge refused to lower her bail after prosecutors said she was a Nigerian citizen who had hidden assets in her home country.
The two governments said in a joint statement that they would work "to ensure the effective, efficient and proper implementation" of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, known as Fatca, a 2010 law meant to expose Americans' hidden assets.
He was subjected to a financial investigation after it was strongly believed that he had hidden assets and had tried to pass £40m in Swiss francs through a Jersey bank account.
There are some who are less hard hit, either because they have hidden assets, or because they are outside the formal economy, in strongly agricultural rural areas, for example.
The European tax commissioner, Algirdas Semeta, has said that tax evasion costs European nations about 1 trillion euros, or $1.3 trillion, in lost revenue each year, and cash-poor governments are eager to track down their citizens' hidden assets.
