June 08, 2026
A Colorado federal jury convicted four individuals Monday of conspiring to defraud the government by using their businesses to help promote and sell abusive and illegal trust tax shelters, leading to about $50 million in losses over more than a decade.
June 04, 2026
Prosecutors told a Colorado federal jury Thursday that four individuals defrauded the government by using their businesses to help promote and sell abusive and illegal trust tax shelters, while the defendants argued they lacked knowledge of the alleged scheme and can't be held responsible.
May 05, 2026
More than a dozen lawyers and defendants packed a Colorado federal courtroom Tuesday to mark the first day of testimony in the trial against four individuals accused of using their businesses to help promote and sell abusive trust tax shelters.
May 01, 2026
A man charged with promoting abusive and illegal tax shelters for decades asked a Colorado federal judge just days before trial to throw out the indictment against him, contending the government withheld material exculpatory evidence for more than a year.
December 16, 2025
A federal judge sentenced a Colorado man Tuesday to 12.5 years imprisonment for his role in an almost decade-long scheme promoting abusive and illegal tax shelters, and ordered nearly $50 million in restitution, plus a $35,000 fine.
December 01, 2025
A man accused of promoting abusive tax shelters may be unable to understand legal proceedings against him or help defend himself, a Colorado federal court found, ordering him to undergo a mental competency exam ahead of his trial.
August 07, 2025
A man accused of numerous financial crimes related to his operation of promoting abusive and illegal tax shelters pled guilty to three charges across two different cases in Colorado federal court on Thursday.
February 13, 2025
A man accused of operating an abusive tax shelter whose bond was revoked after a federal judge said he may have committed additional crimes while awaiting trial asked a Colorado federal court Thursday to reconsider detaining him, saying the government had long been investigating those additional allegations.
February 10, 2025
A man accused of promoting abusive tax shelters was ordered to prison Monday by a Colorado federal judge who said she believed he may have committed additional crimes in connection with a multimillion-dollar fraudulent investment fund while awaiting trial.
April 26, 2024
A federal grand jury in Denver indicted four more people in connection with what prosecutors call a conspiracy to defraud the government in a multistate scheme to promote abusive tax shelters using sham trusts to hide business income and illegally deduct personal expenses such as family weddings.