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In a brazen act, Wall Street billionaire Max Heller’s wife is kidnapped in broad daylight. Although the original ransom demand calls for the payment of only ten million dollars, it soon increases when the kidnappers decide to extort more money from an increasingly irate billionaire whose motivation for securing his wife’s freedom is called into question. After Mrs. Heller has been released, law enforcement officials suspect that the wealthy Wall Street financier may have played a role in his wife’s kidnapping. As the police and FBI pursue dual investigations, it becomes apparent that ...

A young observant Jewish woman dealing with an unhappy marriage desperately wants a divorce from her abusive husband. In order to later remarry in a ceremony that is recognized under Jewish law and have children, she must be granted a Jewish divorce. However, her husband has refused to grant her a Jewish divorce out of petty vindictiveness. When her husband is soon found murdered in the marital home, the young woman becomes the prime suspect even though there is no evidence of her guilt. She is soon arrested and charged in his murder. As her lawyers zealously fight on her behalf, an attempt...

Bill Ford and Bill White practice law like pirates looking for sunken treasure. Their conduct has finally been brought to the attention of law enforcement, thereby triggering a federal criminal investigation into their billing practices. However, before they are brought to justice on charges of committing massive mail fraud, the law partners agree to defend two sisters who are candidates for admittance to an institution for the criminally insane. As the case quickly unravels in court and it is apparent that the law partners were ill prepared to litigate the case, the clients seek revenge ...

A corrupt and unethical tax lawyer who is in the process of being subject to disciplinary action for improper conduct, is involved in an IRS agent's death and stages the agent's death to look like an accident. The police detectives investigating the agent's death are suspicious and believe that there may be incriminating information in the deceased agent's audit files which are the property of the IRS. While IRS officials know that there is circumstantial evidence in the audit files that could incriminate the attorney, they are prohibited by law from disclosing such information. Although ...

A Tax Court judge with a personal vendetta against the IRS has ruled against the tax agency in a succession of trials which the IRS should have easily won. A pattern of bizarre behavior continues that is baffling to tax practitioners and IRS personnel. Frustrated with a federal judge serving a fifteen year term on the bench, the IRS decides to take whatever action necessary to have the judge removed. However, before impeachment proceedings commence, the judge will make startling rulings that further bewilder courtroom observers. This will eventually lead to a stunning conclusion cloaked in ...

Lisa Thornton’s perfect life has suddenly imploded as she finds herself the target of two international criminal investigations into the murders of her mother-in-law and her third husband, who was formerly married to her mother-in-law. Shortly after her mother-in-law was murdered and Lisa divorced her second husband, she married her wealthy former father-in-law who was murdered while on their honeymoon in Australia. Although Lisa expects to inherit hundreds of millions of dollars as the surviving spouse and has filed a claim for twenty five million dollars in death benefits, she will not ...

Two rogue computer hackers employed by the CIA have stolen four hundred million dollars from the Taliban. When President Joshua Bartlett learns of the theft, he has the hackers give him half of the cash but then arranges to have them killed so that he can keep the balance for himself. By steadfastly refusing to return the money to the Taliban, Bartlett has incurred its wrath. To force the president to return the money, Taliban fighters acting in concert with a powerful Mexican drug cartel, wage a jihad along the southern border. In a shocking act of deception, the president withdraws four ...

Imagine a bribery conspiracy, fraud, deception, abuse of power and illicit sex. Now imagine that this is taking place within the IRS. While the Justice Department is prosecuting those guilty of tax crimes, a shocking discovery will be made that undermines the integrity of the IRS. IRS employees responsible for the administration of the tax laws are discovered to have manipulated the tax system in a plot so ingenious that only one intrepid IRS agent can solve the mystery. However, while he is dealing with this problem, he must also match wits with a brilliant sociopath who is currently in ...

Sam Carr is determined to find and kill the five men who brutally attacked him and kidnapped his girlfriend while vacationing in Hawaii. As a consequence of his actions, he is offered full immunity for any and all past crimes if he assassinates a notorious radical Islamic terrorist who is believed to be in charge of a terror cell in London. Unfortunately, things go terribly wrong on this mission. In order to find and put an end to the mysterious person responsible for reprehensible acts of terrorism, Sam must join forces with a team of undercover Mossad agents. Yet, even though Sam has been...

Edith Bowersox is a wealthy woman with a very dark past. Edith accumulated a sizable estate by having murdered her first rich husband as well as the wife of a man that she later married for his money and eventually had him killed by her lover. Apparently this did not seem to bother Edith’s conscious until the last several years of her life. With the 2010 calendar year about to end, Edith is found dead in her estate house. A bitter contest is waged over her Will that eventually results in the death of one of the lawyers, which turns the case from a local police investigation into a full ...

Stanley Scherr, an unethical tax lawyer prominently featured in NONDISCLOSABLE, will finally receive a long overdue present from the Department of Justice. Stanley will go off to prison for tax evasion. Simultaneously, the Justice Department is prosecuting a related tax case which involves the largest tax cheat in history. However, before this case is concluded, it will lead to the criminal investigation of another tax evasion case and implicate an individual who was once the most powerful citizen in the country and one of the most influential figures in the world. The consequences of this ...

An assistant US Attorney who successfully prosecuted various defendants for tax evasion, securities fraud and racketeering, is found dead in a restroom. In its investigation into the prosecutor’s murder, the FBI has zeroed in on a ruthless Mafia crime boss who is under investigation for tax evasion, bribery of IRS officials, racketeering, prostitution and illegal arms sales. Soon thereafter, a bankruptcy lawyer who shares the same name as the federal prosecutor is also murdered in the same manner in a restroom. As the FBI ramps up its criminal investigations in order to prosecute the ...

As a consequence of committing more tax fraud while in prison, Timothy Bell is facing an extended prison sentence. Determined to obtain an early release, Bell diverts one hundred billion dollars from the United States Treasury and threatens to steal an even larger sum unless he is granted a presidential pardon. With negotiations for a pardon having stalled, Bell is close to bankrupting the federal government. While the government struggles with its mounting debt obligations, a Wall Street billionaire uses insider information to derive hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal trading ...

A wealthy doctor is brutally murdered in his South Florida home by a clever killer who left no evidence at the scene of the crime. Ironically, the lead investigator had killed the doctor’s father twenty years ago after the man committed theft, bankruptcy fraud, tax evasion and several heinous murders. With a net worth of fifty million dollars, the doctor spent recklessly and lavishly on porn stars, prostitutes and five ex-wives. When an extortionist attempted to blackmail him for millions, the tax lawyer who had set up the doctor’s offshore bank accounts to conceal his client’s vast ...

Notorious lawyer Bill White is at it again. In order to obtain a favorable tax-exempt ruling from the Internal Revenue Service, the ethically challenged lawyer conspires to bribe an IRS official on behalf of his client, a corrupt private foundation engaged in money laundering. After the ruling is issued, the foundation’s trustees order the murders of those IRS officials they believe may have extorted their money as an act of revenge. With the FBI and IRS conducting separate investigations, the individuals who are parties to the bribe come under intense scrutiny. Eventually, the IRS ...

A notorious hedge fund manager who has swindled his clients out of billions of dollars and is now desperate for cash, hires a prolific international counterfeiter to mass produce two billion dollars which he intends to launder and then use to pay a portion of his debt obligations. Soon thereafter, the hedge fund manager and counterfeiter are mysteriously murdered. With a seemingly endless list of suspects who despised the morally corrupt hedge fund manager, two relentless FBI agents and two tenacious LAPD homicide detectives pursue investigations as to why these men were killed and who ...

While serving a prison sentence upon being found guilty of defrauding the IRS, Erica Whitman is plotting her revenge against the federal government, With the help of her co-defendant, Erica schemes to have her conspiracy conviction overturned as well as be exonerated in her upcoming tax evasion trial. It is as if Erica has just won the lottery when she is asked to help someone in dire need of assistance. Crafting a diabolical strategy that will guarantee her instant wealth, Erica sets upon a scheme to extract revenge against federal prosecutors, while further conspiring to deprive the IRS ...

The year is 1986 and Louie Lipschitz's career at the IRS has just begun. Within a relatively short period of time, Louie has played an integral role in the dismissal of a succession of audit managers whom Louie has found to be morally corrupt and grossly incompetent. When not plotting the termination of his supervisors, Louie has quickly established a reputation as the best field agent in the IRS. Working on a series of high profile fraud cases, Louie has become the lead investigator in a political corruption case motivated by fraudulent intent that defies belief. In spite of the headlines ...

In 1962, a Holocaust survivor is convinced that jewelry on display in a British museum is the same jewelry that once belonged to his family before it was seized by the Nazis in 1938. Determined to learn the truth, he and his lawyer inquire as to the identity of the anonymous donor and why the jewelry was donated to the museum. Tragically, both men are killed in a car explosion in Switzerland outside the home of the donor’s daughter. Despite exhaustive investigatory efforts by Interpol, Scotland Yard and the Swiss police to trace the ownership of the jewelry and find the person responsible...

A former IRS trial lawyer who became an influential political figure and high-profile attorney, is the target of a confidential informant’s complaint letter. Soon after pleading guilty to having filed fraudulent tax returns, she is murdered. At the same time, her husband who is a prominent dermatologist, is the subject of an informant’s complaint letter in which he is accused of having filed fraudulent insurance claims. The IRS is owed more than four million dollars in additional taxes, interest and penalties and pursues collection against the decedent’s spouse who will have to repay ...