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Nigel Sinclair Indicted By DOJ For Tax Conspiracy; Vet Producer Denies Allegations As Case Begins Long March To Trial
White Horse Pictures founder Nigel Sinclair has been indicted for allegedly hiding over $25 million from the sales of stock in his former Intermedia production company in various offshore accounts. In an eight count September 13 filing from the Department of Justice, the 76-year-old producer is accused of defrauding the federal government of over $5 […]
In that vein, the grand jury indictment is in part are the result of “Swiss informants who received complete immunity from the U.S. Department of Justice despite having committed countless felonies,” says UK-born Sinclair’s lawyers Thomas P. O’Brien of Greenberg Traurig, LLP., and Evan Davis of Hochman Salkin Toscher Perez P.C in a statement. The tax case is expected to take at least two years to inch its way through the system to an actual trial with pleads, hearings, discovery and a possible extradition of Sinclair’s co-defendant accountant Andrew Stewart from Australia, Davis also noted “From in or around 2003, through in or around 2011, defendant SINCLAIR funneled approximately $12 million in Intermedia Funds to finance the acquisition of the land and the design, construction, and furnishment of an 8,000 square foot house,” says the 45-page indictment of the property – which is shown in photos in the filing.
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