In 2016, tax attorney Paul Dagueras was sentenced to 180 months for conspiring to defraud the IRS, evading taxes, mail and wire fraud, and four counts of tax evasion relating to the use of tax shelters for clients. Prosecutors called him “the most prolific, pernicious and utterly unrepentant tax cheat in United States history.” He was tried twice, the second time after it was discovered an original juror had lied to get on the jury. It was until only recently that Mr. Dagueras held the distinction of biggest tax cheat; his $1 billion scam now pales in comparison to Robert Brockman’s $2 billion tax evasion case that broke earlier this year. (U.S. v. Daguerdas (September 21, 2016) U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, Case No. 14–2437–cr)
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