Denis Kleinfeld

An overview of offshore tax shelters and other schemes involving insurance arrangements, IRS actions against those programs, and how their clients have fared in criminal, tax and civil litigation.

Twenty nine insureds of British Virgin Islands domiciled Boston Life and Annuity Company Ltd. (in liquidation) have suffered a humiliating end to their attempt to recover premiums they claimed were defrauded from them. In an agreement dated April 8, 2009

Insureds of British Virgin Islands based Boston Life and Annuity Company Ltd. (in liquidation) have won an important legal victory in their attempt to recover $11 million they claim was defrauded from them in a scheme allegedly masterminded by US

Florida-based tax attorney Denis Kleinfeld has dropped a civil complaint against the unknown operators of the whistle-blower's web-site Wikileaks in which he alleged he was the victim of an extortion attempt.Kleinfeld's action against the "true owner and operator" of www.wikileaks.org and the similarly anonymous owners of two email addresses, Julius.baer99@yahoo.com and raymondbaer@yahoo.com, was dismissed without prejudice at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on June 24, 2008 for failure to serve the defendants.

A bitterly-fought civil action filed by Bermuda-domiciled IPOC International Growth Fund Limited against US-based intelligence-gathering and risk management firm Diligence LLC and one of Diligence's clients, the law firm of Barbour, Griffith and Rogers LLC, is over; In the British Virgin Islands, an order placing Boston Life and Annuity Company Limited into provisional liquidation was issued by the local High Court on December 21, 2007 following an application on December 5, 2007 by the insurer itself; and One of the most memorable moments of the 5th OffshoreAlert Financial Due Diligence Conference last April was when the Bermuda Monetary Authority's Director of Enforcement would not answer a question from OffshoreAlert's publisher asking him to name a single Bermudian or Bermuda-owned company that the regulator had ever penalized in its entire history, which spans 39 years.

First Amended Counterclaim by Denis Kleinfeld and Rick May in Amber Cape Productions, LLC, AS Sawhney, Baldocchi & Sons, Inc., d.b.a. Pacific Nurseries; Barnes Yard, Inc., Beamus LP, William P. Wheeler Revocable Trust, Bradford Black, Brian S. Grossman, BRS Architects, Charles Brooks, Christopher Raggio, CLIA, Inc., Craig Frank, Ltd., Daniel Olsen, Daniel Buttafuoco, Darrell Daugherty, Douglas Spriggs, Dr. M. Burger, Dunbar Construction, Earth Works Recycling, Inc., Felix Sogade, Gerardo Aguirre, Gregory Smith, German Carstens, Howard Nerritt, Infinity Stairs, Inc., Kenneth Grabow, Law Practice Management Consultants, LLC, Lawrence Anderson, Lewis Grayson Smyer, Lyle Faber, Marek Stawiski, Marilyn Dahms, Mark Hinman, Marlin Collier, Marvin Triplett, Matthew Benetti, Maxa Beam Searchlights, Inc., Mimbres Internal Medicine PA, Morrow & Company CPAs, North County Oncology Medical Clinic, Inc., Pyra Cap Inc., RaDCon, PC, Richard W. Wilson, Rosalind D. Triplett, Stanley G. Hopp, Stephen C. Klasson, Stephen J. Kroll, Terry McVey, THECO, Inc., Tony Zakhem, and Warren Hutchings v. Boston Life and Annuity Company Ltd., Leo Ford, Rick May and Denis Kleinfeld at the Circuit Court of the 11th Judicial Circuit, Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Florida based offshore tax specialist Denis Kleinfeld has filed a libel complaint against two attorneys and two insurance agents whom he accuses of lying so that clients of British Virgin Islands registered Boston Life and Annuity Company Ltd. would sue

An offshore insurer accused of defrauding its clients of at least $11 million has been ordered to stop writing new business by its local regulator.Boston Life and Annuity Company Limited was issued with a cease and desist order by the British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission on July 13, 2007.

An offshore insurer that operated what may have been an investment scam dressed up as a U. S. tax avoidance scheme endured and enjoyed two contrasting judgments in the same case at the British Virgin Islands High Court over a three-day period in May. It was a tale of two judges for Boston Life and Annuity Company Ltd., which is involved in litigation with 57 of its U. S.-based insureds who claim they are victims of an $11 million fraud allegedly masterminded by U. S. nationals Leo Ford and Denis Kleinfeld and U. K. national Rick May.

Litigants in the British Virgin Islands who claim to have been defrauded of $11 million in an alleged offshore insurance scam masquerading as a U. S. tax avoidance scheme have turned their attentions to the United States in their search for evidence.Alleged victims recently obtained an order from the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida compelling the appearance for deposition of, and production of documents by, Michael Rosenbaum, a former employee of The Kleinfeld Law Firm, of Miami, and they have just made a similar application concerning Jerome M. Hesch, who is a Miami-based attorney with Greenberg Traurig law firm.

Complaint in Gillian Payne v. Denis Kleinfeld and The Kleinfeld Law Firm, LLP at the Circuit Court of the 11th Judicial Circuit, Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Denis Kleinfeld, a U. S. attorney who specializes in offshore tax matters, has won an early success in litigation in Florida concerning the operation of a Caribbean cruise business that risked being torn apart by a bitter family feud.Kleinfeld represented Windjammer Barefoot Cruises Ltd., a British Virgin Islands corporation registered to do business in Florida in a civil action that was filed against its recently-fired CEO, Michael D. Burke, at the 11th Judicial Circuit Court, for Miami-Dade County, Florida on September 15, 2006.

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Fifty-six beneficiaries of offshore insurance policies have accused well-known asset protection attorney Denis Kleinfeld and three alleged associates of defrauding them of $11 million in an offshore insurance scheme.They are seeking full compensatory damages, plus punitive damages, in a civil complaint that was filed at the Circuit Court of the 11th Judicial Circuit, Miami-Dade County, Florida on May 25, 2006. The causes of action are anticipatory breach of contract, unjust enrichment, fraud, negligent misrepresentation, conversion, and conspiracy.

Fifty-six beneficiaries of offshore insurance policies have accused well-known asset protection attorney Denis Kleinfeld and three alleged associates of defrauding them of $11 million in an offshore insurance scheme.

Tax attorney Denis Kleinfeld and related parties have come out victorious in a bitter legal battle with a former employee of The Kleinfeld Law Firm. The ex-staffer, Michael Rosenbaum, has returned $159,000 that he allegedly misappropriated from the Kleinfeld parties and retracted allegations of wrongdoing that he made against them, including that Denis Kleinfeld had forged Rosenbaum's signature on a corporate check to buy himself a Cadillac and that Kleinfeld was involved in setting up questionable tax shelter arrangements for clients.

For the second time in 12 months, a Florida-based law firm that specializes in offshore wealth and tax planning has become involved in litigation with an ex-employee.The Kleinfeld Law Firm filed a lawsuit against its former associate, attorney Sergio A. Pagliery Jr., at the Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami-Dade County, Florida on April 22, 2005, alleging civil theft, conversion and breach of duty of loyalty and good faith.

Offshore-focused attorney Denis Kleinfeld "masterminded" a widespread tax avoidance scheme known as the 'United States Virgin Islands Program', according to an ex-employee. The allegation was made in a counterclaim and third party claim filed at Miami-Dade Circuit Court, in Florida, on September 7, 2004 by Michael Rosenbaum and Demi International Consulting LLC, of Florida.

Attorney Denis Kleinfeld has become embroiled in bitter litigation with a former associate of Kleinfeld's United States-based law firm, which specializes in offshore asset protection and tax planning.No fewer than seven civil lawsuits were filed by one side against the other at Miami-Dade Circuit Court, in Florida, over five months this year.

Letter to OffshoreAlert's editor from Peter Hug's attorney re. ASAP Services (Bahamas) securities offering.