Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2005 | 9:37 a.m.
Federal prosecutors said Tuesday that they planned to file new charges and name as many as a dozen new defendants in their investigation of questionable tax shelters sold by the accounting firm KPMG. Prosecutors described the widening criminal investigation at the arraignment on Tuesday of nine former executives charged last month with conspiracy to devise and sell fraudulent tax shelters. The additional charges against the nine could include tax evasion and obstruction of justice for hindering aspects of the government's investigation of the tax shelters, prosecutors said.
The nine defendants, a former lawyer at Sidley Austin Brown & Wood and eight former partners at KPMG, pleaded not guilty.
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