Don’t Become A Material Advisor
[Ed. Note - the following guest post is by Lance Wallach. The post originally appeared in Accounting Today on July 1st of this year and is being reprinted here at the request of its author. In his...
View ArticleFeds Arrest Lawyer In & Unreported Foreign Account (FBAR) Case
by Brian Mahany While the world and business community calls upon the IRS and Congress to repeal FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act), the government just indicted a lawyer and charged him with...
View ArticlePayroll Firm Really A Ponzi Scheme? Tax Fraud Post
by Brian Mahany Although we specialize in tax and fraud work, rarely are the two disciplines connected. A story last week from the Baltimore Sun, however, suggests that a Bel Air, Maryland payroll...
View ArticleTop Tax Scams – Are You On The IRS’ Radar?
by Brian Mahany With just 2 weeks before taxes are due, the IRS has cranked up their publicity machine. Indictments, public service announcements and lots of information. One of the more interesting...
View ArticleFormer CPA Gets 3.5 Years in Prison, $100 Million Restitution For Tax Evasion...
by Brian Mahany A former CPA and banker at Deutsche Bank AG was sentenced to 3-1/5 years and ordered to pay $115,700,000 for his role in helping clients evade taxes. David Parse will have to serve...
View ArticleWhen Public Officials Don’t Pay Taxes – IRS Whistleblower Post
by Brian Mahany Remember the Nannygate scandal? The scandal originated in 1993 when President Bill Clinton nominated Zoe Baird to be the United States Attorney General. That nomination didn’t last...
View ArticleCell Captive Insurance – Legit Insurance Tool or Abusive Tax Shelter
Just a few years ago, captive insurance companies were a hot news item in the arcane world of abusive tax shelters. Sleazy promoters were signing up small businesses in droves. If you created a cell...
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Cop Found Guilty of Tax Fraud, Identity Theft
FBI Convicts Cop of Tax Fraud Law enforcement officers are supposed to protect us from criminal behavior, not commit it. In a rather unusual story, a Miami police officer was convicted last week of tax...
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Phony Refund = 27 Months in Prison (Tax Fraud Post)
Phony Refund = 27 Months in Prison Erica Bryant wanted a new Lincoln MKZ. There was just one problem, not enough money. How do you get quick cash? File a phony refund request. Bryant did just that and...
View ArticleSchumer Finds False “Made in America” Goods
The federal government spends billions of dollars each year on goods and services. Purchasing laws mandate preference for goods made in America and for blind made goods. According to Senator Charles...
View Article“Crap Job with Crap Wages” (Whistleblower Post)
Today’s CNN Money had an interesting headline, “Americans fear a life of dead-end crap jobs with crap wages.” It’s not the kind of headline one expect from CNN but the message certainly rings true for...
View ArticleBig Pharma Loses Battle to Derail False Claims Act
Big pharma and the medical establishment hate the False Claims Act. We don’t think that rank and file physicians oppose the Act, unfortunately it is the dishonest and greedy doctors who seem to get...
View Article“Get a Mortgage with 3% Down!” (Whistleblower Post)
Just before the housing and financial markets crashed, Countrywide was advertising a 103% mortgage. They would literally give you all the money needed to buy a house and loan you the closing costs too....
View ArticleUnion Steward Claims Wage Theft (FLSA Post)
Despite the politicians telling us that the economy is fine, many workers know the truth. Raises are few and far between. That is unfortunate, but not illegal. When an employer refuses to pay for times...
View ArticleWorkers Score Huge Supreme Court Overtime Victory
The U.S. Supreme Court is hard to predict. In recent years, the court has often been divided and the recent, untimely death of Justice Antonin Scalia worries both labor and big business. This all makes...
View ArticleWhat’s a Billion Dollars? (Whistleblower Post)
What’s a billion dollars? To a big bank, not much! Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase and Citi reported a combined total of $5.3 billion in litigation expenses last year. That’s how...
View ArticleMore Oil Patch Workers Denied Pay (Wage Theft)
Wage theft is a huge problem nationwide. And with crude oil prices so low, many exploration and production workers are really feeling the pinch. Federal law requires most workers get paid time and a...
View ArticleDespicable Medicare Fraud Telemarketing Scheme Claim Settles
We all hate telemarketers. If there is anything that worse than telemarketing, however, it is Medicare fraud. Combine the two and you have a company called Med-Care Diabetic & Medical Supplies,...
View ArticleMore Sad Medicare Fraud Tales – Arriva Medical and AmMed
The year was 2012 when diabetic supply company AmMed settled a whistleblower Medicare fraud action brought by a former company salesperson. Bryan McNeese claimed that AmMed was illegally hawking...
View ArticleHospice Fraud – Urging Nurses to Overdose Patients?
Oh those pesky patients… Some lawyers – admittedly burned out lawyers – have been known to say that the practice of law would be great but for the clients. Apparently some hospice owners feel the same...
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