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Milwaukee Brewers Bait and Switch?

Imagine paying $1,000 for a ticket to a baseball game, waiting 11 years to use it, and then finding out…

1 day ago

Getting Business Tax Returns in a Divorce

When one or both spouses have an ownership interest in a business, it is critical to get both income tax…

3 days ago

How an Attorney Drains a $3.7 Million Estate

An attorney hired to handle a $3.7 million estate ended up stealing more than $1.5 million from it, spending some…

6 days ago

Lifestyle Analysis in Family Law Cases

Determining the income of the parties to a divorce or child custody case is critical, as it affects spousal support…

1 week ago

Determining Income With the IRS Expenditures Method

When the IRS believes a taxpayer has unreported income, they will use alternative methods to attempt to determine the true…

1 week ago

Pacific Private Money Gave Investors “Sanitized” Financial Statements

The thing that caught my eye about this story was the description of the financial statements as “sanitized.” I know…

2 weeks ago

Another Version of the Brett LaChappelle Story

Brett H. LaChappelle of Two Rivers, Wisconsin, has been busy telling the internet about himself. One of his recently published…

2 weeks ago

Interviews in Fraud Investigations – Fraud Files Blog

Interviewing witnesses and suspects is a critical part of any fraud investigation. There are tons of resources out there to…

2 weeks ago

FTC Goes After Amway, But It Will Change Nothing

The Federal Trade Commission is taking what it calls “historic action” against Amway, one of the oldest and largest multilevel…

2 weeks ago

Investors Gave Shiloh Luckey $13.3 Million. Did Anyone Check If She Was Really a CPA?

Venture capital investors gave Shiloh Luckey (fka Shiloh Johnson) more than $13 million for her tax compliance startup, ComplYant. Federal…

2 weeks ago