Whistleblowing, Tax Fraud, and Government Gatekeeping

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Whistleblowing, Tax Fraud, and Government Gatekeeping is a one-hour continuing legal education course presented by attorney Thomas C. Willcox, a Washington DC Sole Practitioner, who served as the relator in a major tax whistleblower case — giving practitioners and prospective whistleblowers a rare, firsthand look at how these cases actually unfold.

The course uses a concrete Wall Street case study — in which major investment banks earned tens of millions of dollars in fees on transactions closed in New York, then rerouted those fees offshore to avoid New York State and City taxes — to teach attendees how to read transaction documents to determine if fraud might exist, even when the headline contracts tell a different story.

Attendees will learn how to spot the red flags that a government investigation is cosmetic rather than genuine, how to navigate a sealed proceeding when the government agency controlling your case goes silent, and how to keep a whistleblower claim alive when courts believe they have already seen the fact pattern.

The course also covers the New York False Claims Act's tax provisions, the statute-of-limitations traps that can bar a relator's claim before the government's own tax-fraud window closes, and the ethical obligations — and real-world pitfalls — facing government lawyers, relator's counsel, and defense attorneys in high-stakes tax whistleblower matters.

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