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Lawyer convicted in tax scam is disbarred
Posted by: Jane Friedmann under Whistleblower Updated: March 13, 2013 - 5:59 PM
A St. Paul lawyer who filed as many as 1,800 fraudulent tax returns and bilked the state and a retailer out of millions of dollars was disbarred by the Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday.
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