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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Bernie Kohn |Erin Slowey |Perry Cooper
A Florida couple has filed what appears to be the first lawsuit by a buyer of so-called sovereign tribal tax credits, which the IRS and the Treasury Department have said don’t exist. Justin and Robin Daniels of Jupiter, Fla., filed suit in Palm Beach County Circuit Court against White River Energy Corp., the credits’ sponsor; as well as a wealth advisory firm that helped to market the credits and their own accounting firm.
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1 month ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Bernie Kohn |Jeff Harrington
Two former Lottery.com Inc. executives have pleaded guilty to securities fraud charges in connection with a scheme to fraudulently inflate the financial results of a company that promoted itself as the lottery equivalent of Uber or Doordash.
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1 month ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Erin Schilling |Chris Cioffi |Bernie Kohn |Martha Mueller Neff
IRS commissioner nominee Billy Long will likely face sharp questions from Senate Democrats at his first confirmation hearing about his work promoting tax credits that the Treasury Department says don’t exist, and over donations from their advocates who helped him pay off old campaign debts. Long, a former House member from Missouri, is set to appear before the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday.
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2 months ago | 
news.bgov.com | Andrew Oxford |Bill Swindell |Bernie Kohn
Covid-19 was ripping across the world, California was urging residents to stay home, and it was all getting in Elon Musk’s way. Determined not to let pandemic precautions dent factory production, the CEO of Tesla Inc. reopened the company’s Bay Area production plant, flouting local policies. “F*ck Elon Musk,” Lorena Gonzalez, then a California state assembly member, posted to Twitter on May 9, 2020. Gonzalez’s comment broke with Democratic orthodoxy.
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2 months ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Celine Castronuovo |Bernie Kohn
A Rhode Island hospital kept billing for nursing home care and Medicaid kept writing checks, no questions asked. No questions about costs as high as $550,000 per patient, per year. No questions about invoices for services rarely allowed at nursing homes, including physically and chemically restraining patients. No questions about why some medical patients remained hospitalized for years with diagnoses as benign as high blood pressure.
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2 months ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Celine Castronuovo |Bernie Kohn
A Rhode Island hospital kept billing for nursing home care and Medicaid kept writing checks, no questions asked. No questions about costs as high as $550,000 per patient, per year. No questions about invoices for services rarely allowed at nursing homes, including physically and chemically restraining patients. No questions about why some medical patients remained hospitalized for years with diagnoses as benign as high blood pressure.
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Mar 11, 2025 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Courtney Rozen |Bernie Kohn
The Trump administration’s latest moves to encourage departures of federal employees is poised to be its most effective as its more grounded in the law than the earlier deferred resignation proposal that failed to convince enough workers to leave. Federal agencies including those that oversee health and Social Security are giving their employees the option to retire early and offering other staff up to $25,000 to leave.
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Mar 11, 2025 | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Courtney Rozen |Bernie Kohn
The Trump administration’s latest moves to encourage departures of federal employees is poised to be its most effective as its more grounded in the law than the earlier deferred resignation proposal that failed to convince enough workers to leave. Federal agencies including those that oversee health and Social Security are giving their employees the option to retire early and offering other staff up to $25,000 to leave.
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Feb 24, 2025 | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Lauren Castle |Bernie Kohn |Kartikay Mehrotra
William “Bill” P. Ramey III was being dressed down by a very unhappy judge, and attorneys who came to see him squirm were enjoying it. US Magistrate Judge Peter Kang, threatening bar disciplinary referrals, had ordered Ramey to his San Francisco courtroom in September to explain why his Houston-based law firm handled patent infringement lawsuits in California for seven years without being licensed to practice there.
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Feb 10, 2025 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Holly Barker |Alexia Campbell |Bernie Kohn |Nicholas Datlowe
Goldstein reports negative net worth of $3.3 millionInvestigation started in 2020, court filings say On a freezing January morning in 2016, Tom Goldstein arrived at the US Supreme Court to argue the first case on the docket. It was a First Amendment dispute involving a Paterson, N.J., police officer demoted because of his perceived political activity.
