After pleading guilty in a major corporate tax fraud, Boynton Beach attorney Eric Merl was suspended “until further order” by the Florida Supreme Court, one of five South Florida attorneys facing recent disciplinary action.
In practice since 1976, Merl pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service and making false statements to the IRS in a $200 million tax fraud scheme in Philadelphia. He was among five men accused of running a scheme to evade corporate taxes and claim millions in fake corporate tax refunds by purchasing companies with taxable gains and using fraudulent losses to wipe out the gains.
