Lawsuits

A lawyer who questioned the software billionaire in an antitrust lawsuit supported prosecutors who fake dementia to avoid trial on tax-evasion charges.

The claimants allege that KPMG “failed to maintain independence and an appropriate attitude of professional skepticism" in the insolvency of Dubai private-equity firm Abraaj Group.

The founder of Renaissance Technologies and his colleagues will pay billions to resolve one of the biggest tax disputes in U.S. history.

The amount of civil tax lawsuits filed by the Internal Revenue Service in federal court this year is only half the number of a decade ago, but has held steady since last year.

A federal appeals court ruling overturns a previous one that had prevented them from getting back funds that had been transferred to the bank.

A federal judge in San Francisco ruled in favor of PricewaterhouseCoopers in a case involving a former employee who sued PwC for firing him after he complained about conflicts of interest among audit clients.

Even as Mike Lynch faces potential extradition to the U.S. on fraud charges, those who have stayed loyal to him are reaping the rewards.

The hospital operator’s founder said the firm enjoyed a “deep and cozy” relationship with executives at the troubled company.

Ripple has said the SEC can’t regulate XRP because, as a virtual currency used in international and domestic transactions, it’s a medium of exchange and not a security.

The Malaysian government is seeking more than $5.6 billion from the auditors over their role in auditing the state investment fund.

The South African-Dutch-German retailer may soon release a revised proposal to resolve more than $8 billion of legal claims after a previous deal recently fell through.

The former president and the House Oversight Committee failed to agree on the release of his financial documents after several rounds of negotiations.

The justices rejected a challenge by Republican-controlled states and the Trump administration to a landmark law that provides health insurance to 20 million people.

A federal judge pressured lawyers for Donald Trump and House Democrats to settle their long battle over a subpoena of records from the former president’s accounting firm.

A failed oil trader in Singapore that owes creditors more than $3.5 billion is suing Deloitte & Touche LLP, alleging the auditing firm failed to detect “serious irregularities” in its financial statements for more than a decade.

Trump had also sued the state attorney general’s office and tax department to block them from handing over the information to Congress.

The former president's attorneys are calling the subpoena unconstitutional and unenforceable.

The legal battle over House Democrats’ efforts to obtain Donald Trump’s tax returns may turn on whether a former president can still assert constitutional protections against congressional requests.

A lawyer for the U.S. House of Representatives signaled that congressional Democrats will move aggressively during the Biden administration to obtain former President Donald Trump’s tax returns, telling a judge “enough is enough.”

Investigators probing Donald Trump’s finances have gotten hold of some of his tax records, allowing them to move ahead even without a Supreme Court order that would give them eight years of his returns.