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Tax

Nov. 3, 2009

Prosecutorial Declination, a Rare Catch in the Criminal Tax World

Nathan J. Hochman of Bingham McCutchen provides insight on what it takes to obtain a prosecutorial declination of tax charges.

TAXATION

By Nathan J. Hochman

In the pantheon of achievements for a criminal tax defense attorney, few merit badges are more difficult to garner than obtaining a declination of tax charges from a federal prosecutor. By the time a criminal tax case reaches a prosecutor, whether stationed in the United States Dept. of Justice's Tax Division and/or in a United States Attorney's Office, that case has already survived multiple layers of scrutiny at the Inte...

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