{"id":2288,"date":"2006-04-18T21:48:34","date_gmt":"2006-04-18T21:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2006-04-18T21:48:34","modified_gmt":"2006-04-18T21:48:34","slug":"judge_presses_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2288","title":{"rendered":"Judge Presses Companies that Cut Off Legal Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theledger.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060417\/ZNYT01\/604170367\/1001\/BUSINESS\">Lynnley Browning<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Federal judges are beginning to question why companies are cutting off legal fees to their executives when they become caught up in criminal investigations.<\/p>\n<p>The judge in the tax-shelter trial of former tax professionals at KPMG last week ordered a hearing to determine whether prosecutors had improperly put pressure on the accounting firm to stop paying the defendants&#8217; legal bills. Last month, a federal judge in New Hampshire granted five former executives of Enterasys Networks a three-month reprieve in their trial after he questioned whether there was undue influence to cut off their legal payments. (The company has since restored them.)<\/p>\n<p>The questions have emerged as other companies, including Symbol Technologies and HealthSouth, have stopped paying former executives&#8217; bills for lawyers.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lynnley Browning: Federal judges are beginning to question why companies are cutting off legal fees to their executives when they become caught up in criminal investigations. The judge in the tax-shelter trial of former tax professionals at KPMG last week ordered a hearing to determine whether prosecutors had improperly put pressure on the accounting firm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}