Merrill Scott principals indicted for tax evasion & money laundering

The operators of a now-defunct asset protection firm based in Utah and the Bahamas have been criminally indicted in the United States on multiple counts of tax evasion and money laundering.Patrick Merrill Brody and David Eugene Ross II, who ran Merrill Scott & Associates, were indicted at the U. S. District Court for the District of Utah on June 25, 2008. If convicted on all counts, they each face a maximum sentence of more than 80 years in prison and fines exceeding $2 million.