February 18, 2022
A settlement was approved between the U.S. government and a Bahamian investment company the government seeks to hold liable for the $56.5 million tax debt of gambling magnate Gary Kaplan, according to federal court documents filed Friday.
August 15, 2019
Bahamian law can be used to weigh a dispute over whether the assets of a Bahamian investment company can be levied to satisfy the tax debt of gambling magnate Gary Kaplan, a Pennsylvania federal court ruled.
October 16, 2018
The U.S. government told a Pennsylvania federal court it should deny a motion by a Bahamian investment company, saying it did not sufficiently prove foreign law should govern a dispute involving the satisfaction of a gambling magnate's tax bill for a $97 million transaction.
September 18, 2018
A gambling businessman's Bahamian trust fund should be governed by the laws of the Bahamas, not Pennsylvania, because it was established in that country, blocking the IRS from seizing it to satisfy a tax bill on a $97 million transaction, the businessman maintained in a brief filed Monday in Pennsylvania federal court.
August 13, 2018
The Internal Revenue Service has the power to reach trust funds stashed by gambling businessman Gary Kaplan in the Bahamas no matter which law — federal, state or Bahamian — applies in the case because he retains substantial control over the funds, the U.S. said in a memo filed Friday in a Pennsylvania federal court.
January 11, 2018
The U.S. on Tuesday asked a Pennsylvania federal court to let stand a December decision denying an investment company's bid to prevent the IRS from seizing its assets by applying a Bahamanian court decision, saying there was no reason to reconsider.
December 06, 2017
A Pennsylvania federal court on Tuesday denied an investment company's motion that asked the court to apply a Bahamian court decision to prevent the U.S. from seizing its assets, saying the company failed to prove the substance of Bahamian law and the Bahamian Supreme Court did not have jurisdiction over the U.S.
November 07, 2017
The U.S. government asked a Pennsylvania federal court on Monday to deny a motion by an investment company asking the court to apply a Bahamian court decision and law to prevent the U.S. from seizing its assets.
October 24, 2017
An investment company the Internal Revenue Service says is connected to the former owner of one of the world's largest foreign gambling companies told a Pennsylvania federal judge Monday a Bahamian Supreme Court ruling barred the U.S. government's attempt to seize its assets.
May 10, 2017
The Internal Revenue Service agreed Wednesday to drop a $56.5 million suit in Pennsylvania federal court against the former owner of a defunct gambling company after a federal judge ordered the parties last month to seek an agreement on an acceptable venue for the dispute.