My name is Richard Lehman, I have been a tax lawyer for 54 years and it has been a privilege.
After many years of mostly working in the international tax field, a guy named Bernie Madoff came onto the scene along with hundreds and maybe thousands of investors, who had been fooled by Madoff into thinking they were making significant profits when it was all a sham. Bernie Madoff was a thief. I have since found out that there are many Bernie Madoffs stealing money from their investors.
Bernie Madoff’s investors thought that they were making big profits. Instead they were losing money because Bernie Madoff never made profits; he only made money that never produced profits, except for Bernie Madoff. I also found out that there were a lot of thieves financially ruining a lot of people and I would like to think that I was able to help many people recoup at least a portion of what they lost. I can help you too.
Sincerely,
Richard S. Lehman, J.D./LL.M.
Richard S. Lehman has built a tax law firm with a national reputation for being able to handle the toughest tax cases, structure the most sophisticated income tax and estate tax plans, and defend clients before the IRS.
- Graduate of Georgetown Law J.D. – Georgetown University
- Masters in Tax Law from New York University Law School
- Law Clerk to the Honorable William M. Fay – U.S. Tax Court in Washington D.C.
- Senior Attorney, Interpretive Division, Chief Counsel’s office, The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the IRS’s internal law firm.
Mr. Lehman has had extensive experience with all areas of the Internal Revenue code that apply to American taxpayers and non-resident aliens and foreign corporations investing or conducting business in the United States, as well as U.S. citizens and domestic corporations investing abroad.
CONTACT:
Richard Lehman, Full Attorney Profile
2000 Glades Road, Suite 312, Boca Raton, FL. 33431
Phone: 561-368-1113
The Government Accountability Office (GAO)
The GAO sought out Lehman’s advice as to whether the Internal Revenue Service was providing tax advice on the treatment of the Ponzi scheme Clawback. Lehman had a lengthy discussion on the topic of IRS effectiveness with the GAO representatives. As a result of those discussions, the following letter was sent to Lehman from the GAO as a thank you note for his guidance. Apparently, Lehman’s advice to the Government Accountability Office resulted in new guidance being issued by the Internal Revenue Service on the proper treatment of the taxation of the Ponzi scheme Clawback.
The GAO thank you letter is as follows:
The GAO Report to Congressional Requesters: Customer Outcomes in the Madoff Liquidation Proceedings. Download the 80 page pdf here.