Department of Justice Press Release of July 19, 2017. In its press release of July 19, the Department of Justice announced that a citizen and resident of Switzerland pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States in connection with her work as the head of a team of bankers for Credit Suisse AG, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente for the Eastern District of Virginia. Ms. Meier was indicted in 2011 that was part of a number of cases filed by the United States on offshore tax evasion.