Alleged Tax Evader Ordered Detained for Messaging Co-Conspirator

Former defense contractor Douglas Edelman, alleged to have “orchestrated one of the largest tax-evasion schemes in American history,” must be detained pending trial after violating a condition of his release, a federal judge in the District of Columbia said.

Edelman was arrested in Ibiza, Spain, and transferred to the US earlier this year on charges that he had evaded taxes on more than $350 million in income he earned from jet fuel contracts in support of US military operations in Afghanistan and the Middle East. Edelman ran a decades-long scheme employing a global web of financial entities to conceal his ...