In the fourth episode of the Financial Crimes – Dirty Money Stories podcast, K&F partner Christopher Ferguson joins AML RightSource Executive Vice President John Byrne and AML RightSource Creative Director Elliot Berman to discuss the recently adopted Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 and some of its key provisions affecting financial crimes
By Christopher M. Ferguson and Hannah Ambinder On March 3, 2021, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units (Egmont Group) released Trade-Based Money Laundering: Risk Indicators, a publication outlining anti-money laundering risk factors. The FATF Report’s purpose is to improve the identification of suspicious
NEW YORK CITY, NY (September 29, 2020) – Kostelanetz & Fink is pleased to announce that 10 attorneys at the firm have been selected for inclusion in the 2020 New York Metro Super Lawyers list, recognizing the firm’s experience and skill in the areas of Tax, Criminal Defense: White Collar,
In a recent Mercury News article by Leonardo Castañeda entitled “A Lafayette Youth Baseball League Supposedly Got a $5 Million PPP Loan. Here’s What Really Happened,” Christopher M. Ferguson discussed the issue of fraudulent loans issued under the federal Paycheck Protection Program during the COVID-19 pandemic. Excerpts from the article
By Christopher M. Ferguson Law.com May 12, 2020 Once the May 14 deadline for arguably undeserving recipients of PPP loans to return the funds “no questions asked” has passed, the government will no doubt seek to make examples of undeserving PPP loan recipients. For anyone following developments in the massive small
By Christopher M. Ferguson NYSSCPA Tax Stringer April 1, 2020 On Sep. 28, 2018, the IRS’s Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program (OVDP) came to an end; however, offshore tax and reporting noncompliance persists in today’s increasingly global economy. Tax advisors are still helping clients who have been—or continue to be—noncompliant with their
NEW YORK (Jan. 06, 2020) — Kostelanetz & Fink is pleased to announce that Christopher M. Ferguson has been named a partner in the firm. Mr. Ferguson joined Kostelanetz & Fink’s New York office in 2003 and is a key member of K&F’s team with extensive experience in white-collar criminal
By Eric Smith The CPA Journal November 2018 Edition When an individual receives a settlement or litigation award payment, the likely first question is whether the payment is taxable. While CPAs may know that the answer will depend upon the claim underlying the lawsuit, several other questions can arise that will
By Christopher M. Ferguson AICPA Tax Insider Newsletter October 25, 2018 The recent end of the OVDP is not the end of IRS enforcement of undisclosed offshore accounts. For most of the past decade, the IRS has maintained a safe harbor for taxpayers who want to disclose offshore account holdings that
