Over a year after indictments were handed down in the tax shelter prosecution that brought down Jenkens & Gilchrist, a former partner at the firm has pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy, fraud, and tax evasion.
Erwin Mayer, one of three Jenkens partners indicted in June 2009, entered his guilty pleas as part of a cooperation agreement with prosecutors on Tuesday, according to the New York Law Journal. He admitted to creating fraudulent tax shelters while with the Chicago firms Altheimer & Gray and J&G, as part of an 11-year conspiracy to defraud the United States and commit tax evasion and wire fraud.
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