NEW YORK—A former attorney with the defunct law firm Jenkens & Gilchrist has been sentenced to eight years in prison on conspiracy and tax evasion charges for her role in promoting fraudulent multibillion-dollar tax shelters, prosecutors announced March 1 (United States v. Guerin
The defendant, Donna M. Guerin of Scottsdale, Ariz., was sentenced to the prison term by Judge William H. Pauley III of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She also was ordered to pay $190 million in restitution, prosecutors said.
Guerin pleaded guilty in September 2012, after a May 2011 tax fraud ...
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