Word: osserman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alleged leaders of the group are George Osserman and Paul Garfinkle, a pair of freewheeling tax attorneys, along with Irwin Meyer and Stephen Friedman, two producers of the hit Broadway musical Annie. According to federal investigators, the four built a tax-shelter empire selling interests not only in American coal but also in distribution rights to European films and a Namibian diamond mine. They funneled investment money through a string of paper corporations with headquarters in the U.S., and such offshore havens as the Cayman Islands and Curaçao. Although the current charges concern only the coal caper, which...