In-house lawyers and tax managers should be breathing a lot easier this Christmas, thanks to jurors in a rare white-collar prosecution.
Deliberating for little more than an hour, a Northern California jury acquitted former Bechtel Corp. global tax manager Mark Muntean on Thursday morning on charges that he caused the company to file a false tax return. Federal prosecutors argued that Muntean, an attorney, knew a research and development credit claimed by Bechtel was improper, but pushed for it anyway.
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