Tax fraud

Three court-appointed experts determined that billionaire Robert Brockman is competent to stand trial in the largest tax-evasion case in U.S. history, despite his claims of dementia, prosecutors said in a court filing.

Cyrus Vance Jr. is going out with a bang, after an almost 12-year career as Manhattan’s powerful but staid district attorney, filing charges against the company and its longtime CFO, Allen Weisselberg.

Part of Allen Weisselberg’s legal troubles began when his former daughter-in-law couldn’t get the numbers in her divorce proceedings to add up.

Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg made $940,000 a year from 2011 to 2018, but much of that was “off the books,” Manhattan prosecutors claim.

And the nominees are...; junk mail; discredited; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

A federal appeals court in Boston has upheld the jury conviction of a CPA for filing a false tax return, despite the CPA’s claim that he relied on information provided by his client and client’s bookkeeper.

A grand jury indicted Allen Weisselberg and the company in an extraordinary challenge to the former president.

The Internal Revenue Service is focusing on cryptocurrency tax evasion with virtual currencies like Bitcoin and nonfungible tokens, employing data analytics to uncover transactions that crypto users assumed were hidden.

Congress reintroduced legislation to prevent abuses of a tax break that’s supposed to protect public lands, but is often used as a tax shelter.

Faster than a speeding fraud; significant adjustments; register schmegister; smoked out; and other highlights of recent tax cases.