United Parcel Service

Order granting a petition for Leave to Serve 'John Doe' Summonses as part of an IRS investigation into U.S. taxpayers who are suspected of tax evasion using the services of Panama Offshore Legal Services in USA v. Federal Express Corporation, a.k.a. FedEx Express; Fed Ex Ground Package System, Inc., a.k.a. FedEx Ground; DHL Express (USA), Inc., United Parcel Service, Inc., the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, The Clearing House Payments Company LLC, HSBC Bank USA, N.A., Citibank, N.A., Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., and Bank of America, N.A. at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Supplemental Memorandum of Law and Declaration in support of a petition for Leave to Serve 'John Doe' Summonses as part of an IRS investigation into U.S. taxpayers who are suspected of tax evasion using the services of Panama Offshore Legal Services in USA v. Federal Express Corporation, a.k.a. FedEx Express; Fed Ex Ground Package System, Inc., a.k.a. FedEx Ground; DHL Express (USA), Inc., United Parcel Service, Inc., the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, The Clearing House Payments Company LLC, HSBC Bank USA, N.A., Citibank, N.A., Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., and Bank of America, N.A. at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Ex Parte Petition for Leave to Serve 'John Doe' Summonses on Federal Express Corporation, FedEx Ground Package System, Inc., DHL Express, United Parcel Service , Inc., Western Union Financial Services, Inc., the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Clearing House Payments Company LLC, and HSBC Bank USA, National Association regarding a tax investigation into clients of Sovereign Management & Legal, Ltd., filed at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Statement of the Offense in USA v. Jonathan Weir at the U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Plea Agreement in USA v. Jonathan Weir at the U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Criminal Information in USA v. Jonathan Weir at the U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Bermuda-based Overseas Partners Ltd. went into voluntary liquidation on January 31, 2006 - nearly four years after going into run-off. Peter C.B. Mitchell, 51, and Nigel J.S. Chatterjee, 52, both of PricewaterhouseCoopers (Bermuda), have been appointed liquidators.The process should be “substantially completed, if not completed, by the end of 2006 if events unfold according to plan”, the firm stated in a recent SEC filing.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Russia into AN Lyashenko, AT Stroganov, Serguei Podiouk, Pavel Smirnov, Maksim Varatsilin and Pavlo Gorbenko for alleged participation in a credit card fraud scheme.

Overseas Partners Ltd., which went run off after the termination of its lucrative shipper's risk program with affiliate United Parcel Service, paid liquidating distributions totaling $535 million or $4.50 per share during the 12 months ended December 31, 2003, the

The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in the United States has denied a petition of the IRS Commissioner to rehear its earlier decision in favor of United Parcel Service Inc. in relation to the legality of its now defunct

A US appeals court has overturned a 1999 decision that a reinsurance program operated by UPS and Bermuda-based Overseas Partners Ltd. amounted to tax evasion.The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals said the reinsurance program, which covered extra package insurance for UPS clients, was not a "sham transaction", as determined by the IRS and Tax Court.

Overseas Partners Ltd. appears to have won its battle with the US Internal Revenue Service over tax assessments and penalties totalling $539 million that were levied against the firm for the period 1984-90. On January 21, 1999, a US Tax Court ruled that OPL had no deficiency in income tax, and no additional tax was due from the company, for 1984, the only year that has so far gone to trial.

United Parcel Service could be liable for as much as $1 billion in federal income taxes if it loses a case now before the US Tax Court in Atlanta that involves Bermuda based reinsurer, Overseas Partners Ltd., which reinsures UPS