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.
Sam Currin, now a private criminal attorney, was one of four people charged after a sting by investigators with the Internal Revenue Service.
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.
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.
Associated Press
