"My tax counsel advised me after the raid on Kapok that I should get out," he said.

Her father retired as the general tax counsel and deputy chief financial officer at Banker's Trust in Manhattan.

Samuel Sessions, the committee's chief tax counsel, is deputy assistant secretary for tax analysis.

"We have outside tax counsel looking into this question," Mr. Neale said.

He had been associate tax legislative counsel with the Treasury Department.

Sutherland regular serves as tax counsel to Altria and its affiliated companies.

The bride, 44, is a tax counsel at Citibank in New York.

Mr. Ruble, who pleaded not guilty to the charges, offers his services as "special tax counsel" on a Web site, www.rjrtax.com.

Her father is the associate general tax counsel at Texaco Inc. in White Plains.

Her father is a senior tax counsel for the Exxon Corporation in New York.