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BERLIN — Credit Suisse's offices in Germany were searched Wednesday as part of an investigation into accusations that its employees might have helped clients evade taxes, prosecutors in Düsseldorf said.
While it is a federal crime to willfully fail to pay taxes, prosecutors and tax lawyers say the crime is rarely prosecuted when the amounts involved are relatively small.
To avoid paying New York sales taxes, prosecutors said, he shipped empty crates to Tyco's headquarters in Exeter, N.H., and transported paintings back and forth from New Hampshire to Manhattan.
A former health insurance executive accused of being the mastermind in an insurance scam that cost Nassau taxpayers millions of dollars was found guilty on Wednesday of evading $1 million in income taxes, prosecutors said.
The family's lawyer, Michael Little, who was also present, explained that half of Mr. Seggerman's estate, more than $10 million, was in Swiss and other foreign accounts, and he told them how they might keep the money hidden to avoid paying United States taxes, prosecutors said.
In tax cases, prosecutors normally let defendants admit to a single major charge and dismiss the rest in return for admitting wrongdoing and taking responsibility for their crimes.
A Web site that promised to connect people with much-needed jobs during the recession was actually a means to steal the applicants' personal information in a scheme to file fraudulent tax returns, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
Former Defense Minister Rudolf Scharping, who was fired in July by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder after being accused of improperly accepting money from a public relations firm, is being investigated for possible tax evasion, prosecutors said.
In his defense, Mr. Isernio said that he had merely forgotten to report some six-figure bonuses, and blamed his accountant for omitting capital gains from his tax returns, prosecutors said.
