Represented hundreds of taxpayers in civil audits and in the U.S. Tax Court involving multiple million-dollar tax disputes

Helped hundreds of taxpayers avoid criminal prosecution after being investigated by the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division and the Department of Justice.

Successfully negotiated voluntary disclosures and avoided criminal prosecution for hundreds of taxpayers who have committed serious tax crimes and failed to file federal income tax returns for 12 years or more.

Won a serious criminal Tax Court trial involving evasion of payment of tax and the client was asked to serve only weekends in a county jail so he could keep his job and remain with his family.

Handled many employment tax cases where taxpayers have failed to pay their employment taxes and won complete victories for several taxpayers who owed the Internal Revenue Service millions of dollars in employment taxes.

Successfully defended a taxpayer who ran and operated a 501(c)(3) non-profit church.  Bob took the case to trial with John Cline and obtained a favorable outcome for the client.  The client continues to operate his church today.

Successfully defended a medical doctor in a criminal tax case in which he had failed to pay taxes for many years.  The client was sentenced to probation and did not serve one day in federal prison.

Successfully defended a business owner who had been paying his employees in cash and not withholding employment taxes.  The client received weekend jail time in a local jail and never spent one day in federal prison.

Has successfully resolved multi-million dollar tax cases involving complex S-corporation basis issues and circular loan transactions.

Successfully handled Internal Revenue Service collection issues for a taxpayer who owed $7 million and avoided all levy and enforced collection activities against the taxpayer and his assets.

Has handled hobby cases for many industries like beverage and spirits companies, auto racing, and airplane businesses, etc.

Handled a case in which the business owners and their CFO committed a $10 million tax crime and he avoided prosecution for all parties through the Internal Revenue Service Voluntary Disclosure Program.

Successfully resolved a criminal employment tax investigation and convinced the government not to indict his client for failure to pay taxes under Internal Revenue Code § 7202.

Successfully resolved a potential criminal tax case against an individual who owed millions of dollars in tax and had failed to file tax returns for approximately 12 years.  The taxpayer was never charged with a federal tax crime.

Led the successful defense of a taxpayer in U.S. Federal District Court who was tried for several counts of tax evasion.

Successfully handled a criminal tax investigation for a taxpayer in the construction industry who was paying his employees in cash and not paying federal employment taxes.  The taxpayer was never charged with a tax crime.

Successfully resolved a biofuel tax credit case where millions of dollars had been illegally refunded to the taxpayer.  Bob negotiated a favorable plea agreement that resulted in a very short prison sentence for his client.

Has represented logistic companies and independent contractor vs. employee classification cases and successfully resolved cases with the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Labor and state unemployment agencies.

Was part of a trial team defending a former Commonwealth of Kentucky public official that obtained a Judgment of Acquittal in a highly publicized political corruption and tax fraud case.

Represented the owner of a construction company in a federal criminal tax trial. This involved delinquent employment taxes for a construction company.

Defended a CPA who was accused of conspiring with his client to commit money laundering.

Represented a bank president who had allegedly violated federal bank fraud statutes. This involved a bank president who was duped into loaning millions of dollars to an unscrupulous family.

Worked closely with Alan M. Dershowitz and John Cline in multiple federal tax fraud and money laundering trials involving a successful business man. Convinced the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a tax fraud conviction.

Led the pre-trial defense of the largest search warrant case in the history of Kentucky. The case involved two hundred agents who executed a federal search warrant on a ten-story office building. The Government seized all computer and electronic data. The United States District Court issued an order requiring the government to copy the documents and return them to our client. The federal agents worked twenty-four hour shifts copying and returning the business records.

Negotiated successful plea agreements involving mortgage fraud in which the defendants were accused of brokering millions of dollars in fraudulent residential and commercial mortgage loans throughout the United States.

Served as lead trial counsel in a three-day United States Tax Court trial. The case involved the ability of S-corporation shareholders to deduct losses to the extent of their stock basis. Back to back loans, economic substance and business purpose was at issue in the case. The taxpayer is a large multi-unit franchisee owner.

Represented a franchisee convenient store owner in a two-day hearing that required the defendants to remove Uniform Commercial Code liens that had been wrongfully filed against the store.  The liens prohibited the owner from selling his million dollar convenient store.

Negotiated a plea agreement for the owner of a jet aircraft transportation company who had allegedly placed millions of dollars in offshore Cayman Islands bank accounts. This involved the validity of offshore entities and the implications of offshore bank accounts.

Served as second chair trial counsel to a closely held company that manufactures paint and related products in a very complicated environmental crimes case.

Defended a multi-million dollar wholesale company in United States District Court that had been charged with diverting baby formula between California and New York.

Argued in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals for the reversal of a United States Tax Court decision, in which the Tax Court had ruled that the client had waived the affirmative defense of the statute of limitations by failing to specifically assert the affirmative defense in his United States Tax Court petition. The client had raised the defense in attachments to his petition.

Defended a major hospital and health care organization in an investigation involving alleged health care fraud and over billing.

Performed an extensive internal investigation for a public company involving potential violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and issued a full report to its chief executives.

Conducted an extensive internal investigation involving an alleged kickback scheme involving a public company and its subsidiaries.

Defended a doctor in a Medicare and Medicaid fraud trial. The government alleged that the doctor had intentionally up-coded his Medicare and Medicaid billings in order to receive more money from the government.

Represented a distinguished tax lawyer who was under criminal investigation by the Department of Justice Tax Division involving an alleged “Klein” conspiracy.

Assisted in obtaining an order, forcing tax shelter promoters to repatriate money from a Canadian bank account.

Represented multiple individual and corporate taxpayers through the state audit and appeals function, before the Kentucky Board of Tax Appeals and in state court.

Negotiated the complete abatement of a multi-million dollar intangible property tax assessment against a publicly traded company.

Resolved a motor fuels excise tax assessment against a fuel distributor in excess of $1,000,000 for $5,000.

Resolved a multi-million dollar tangible property tax assessment against a publicly traded biotech company and worked to enact a legislative exemption for certain biotech property.

Resolved a multi-million dollar tangible property tax assessment against a publicly traded metals producer.

Resolved a significant sales and use tax assessment against a manufacturer of environmental equipment.

Resolved a significant Louisville Metro Occupational License Tax assessment against an out of state investment partnership.

Resolved a substantial local insurance premium tax assessment against a national insurance company.

Resolved a substantial utility gross receipts license tax assessment against a publicly traded manufacturing company.

Structured a cutting edge equine syndication related to breeding and racing activities.

Defended a horse breeder in an Internal Revenue Service audit.

Defended an equine breeder in a hobby loss case relating to his farming activities.

Currently in the process of pursuing a civil RICO claim against ClassicStar and its principals relating to a thoroughbred mare lease arrangement.

Currently defending taxpayers from around the country in equine-related Internal Revenue Service audits relating to passive activity losses, at risk limitations, and Internal Revenue Code Section 162 deductions.