Tax fraud

Drug money; ghosts of a chance; skin games; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Albert J. Pirro Jr., a former business partner of Donald Trump and the ex-husband of Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, was pardoned by the departing president on his last day in office at the end of a flurry of clemency.

Deutsche Bank, TP ICAP and two German lawyers are the targets of M.M. Warburg & Co.’s latest legal attempt to recoup the big tax bill it was ordered to pay over controversial Cum-Ex trades.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation Division issued a warning Thursday about a new wave of COVID-19 scams tied to the latest round of stimulus payments, especially targeting taxpayers in the District of Columbia.

Smells fishy; getting the boot; quit the day job; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Checking out; chairman of the hoard; unlucky Linda; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Sanjay Shah, who founded a London hedge fund that specialized in controversial Cum-Ex trades, was charged by Danish prosecutors in a 9.6 billion-krone ($1.6 billion) tax-fraud probe, according to a person familiar with the case.

The Internal Revenue Service hasn’t been pursuing cases involving hundreds of billions of dollars in income from individuals and businesses whose income has been showing up in Form 1099-K information returns, but has been otherwise unreported.

Ooo, the pain; off the market; a lower calling; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The Criminal Investigation Division is in a nostalgic mood, releasing a retrospective this week of its top five cases of the year through its Twitter handle, @IRS_CI.