{"id":249409,"date":"2006-04-20T04:23:44","date_gmt":"2006-04-20T08:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2006\/04\/former-u-s-attorney-indicted-in-tax-fraud-case"},"modified":"2006-04-20T04:23:44","modified_gmt":"2006-04-20T08:23:44","slug":"former-u-s-attorney-indicted-in-tax-fraud-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2006\/04\/former-u-s-attorney-indicted-in-tax-fraud-case","title":{"rendered":"Former U.S. Attorney Indicted in Tax Fraud Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>A former U.S. attorney who later headed the North Carolina Republican Party and was a Superior Court judge has been named as a suspect in a tax fraud conspiracy.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Sam Currin, now a private criminal attorney, was one of four people charged after a sting by investigators with the Internal Revenue Service.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>U.S. Attorney Gretchen Shappert in Charlotte says the four were involved with abusing financial trusts created under Caribbean companies to avoid U-S taxes. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Also charged were Wilmington tax attorney Ricky Graves, and Howell Way Woltz, the president of Sterling Trust in the Bahamas, and his wife, Vernice, a director of Sterling Trust. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><SMALL>Associated Press<\/SMALL><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Currin, now a private criminal attorney, was one of four people charged after a sting by investigators with the Internal Revenue Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}