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Offshore services provider and asset protection author Terry Leroy Neal has been arrested and jailed in Oregon after a criminal complaint accused him of making false statements in his personal tax returns filed with the IRS.Neal was arrested on December 27, 2002—one day after a criminal complaint was filed against him at the United States District Court for the District of Oregon, in Portland, which is Neal's home-town.

The civil fraud lawsuit filed by the SEC against Nevis-based offshore provider Terry Neal and five others ended on December 15 when the last defendant settled. Michael T. Baer was ordered by the U. S. District Court for the District of Oregon to disgorge $1.4 million in "ill-gotten gains" and barred from serving as an officer or director of a public company. The disgorgement was waived and no civil penalty was imposed "based on his demonstrated financial condition".