U.S. Indicts and Arrests Telecommunications Entrepreneur in $200 Million Tax Evasion Case

On February 26, 2005, the U.S. government arrested Walter Anderson, 51, a telecommunications mogul who lives in Washington, D.C., on an indictment on tax evasion and related matters. On February 23, 2005, the indictment was issued by a grand jury in the U.S. District Court in Washington under seal. Anderson was presented on February 28, 2005 before a U.S. Magistrate. The indictment charges that Anderson engaged in a tax evasion scheme, obstructed the Internal Revenue Service, and defrauded the District of Columbia government by failing to pay more than $200 million in taxes owed to the federal and D.C. governments...[more]