Why This Firm?

Some people can call themselves forensic accountants, but not many have lived it.

Robert Nordlander has over 20 years of experience with the IRS-Criminal Investigation as a special agent, who are considered the “finest financial investigators” in the world.

CREDENTIALS

• CPA license (NC #23797)
• CFE credential
• MBA degree
• Criminal Investigator Training Program (CITP)
• Special Agent Investigative Training (SAIT)

EXPERIENCE

As a special agent, he investigated income/employment/excise tax violations, embezzlements, wire fraud, mail fraud, gambling, drug trafficking, bank fraud, money laundering, structuring, and bankruptcy fraud.

He can trace assets and income, and has seized millions of dollars in real estate, vehicles, boats, jewelry, financial accounts, and cash.  He has the experience to find hidden assets and prepare search warrants and seizure warrants showing probable cause to US Magistrates.  He can piece together a person’s financial life, organize it, analyze it, and present the findings in a simplified and accurate manner, so you can be well informed about how to proceed in court.

He was the lead financial investigator for cases that were seen on the Dr. Phil Show, NBC Rock Center, PBS, and written about in Outside Magazine, Men’s Journal, and the New York Times.

He also wrote two Amazon bestsellers: Criminal Tax Secrets: What Every Defense Attorney Should Know and Unpaid Payroll Taxes: A Time Bomb You Can Defuse.  His author and speaking website is www.robertnordlander.com.

LITIGATION SUPPORT

Once an investigation was ready for court proceedings, he assisted the United States Attorney’s Office in drafting indictments, plea agreements, factual basis, trial preparation, and sentencing.  Trial preparation included preparing witnesses for court proceedings, creating exhibits and summaries, and assisting in voir dire. 

He understands the FRCP (Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure), the FRE (Federal Rules of Evidence), what bases need to be touched, how to get the evidence admitted into court, and what is needed for proof beyond a reasonable doubt. 

INSTRUCTION

With his experience and expertise, he supervised, taught, and mentored other special agents in their tradecraft.  The IRS sent him to teach internationally about anti-fraud and anti-money laundering techniques in conjunction with the US State Department.  He has written training materials for white-collar investigations and cybercrimes.

INTERVIEWING SKILLS

He has interviewed over 1,000 witnesses in his career.  He can build rapport, get to the truth, and have a witness be willing to testify at a court proceeding.  He has prepared many witnesses for grand jury and trial testimony.

WRITTEN REPORTS

He prepares reports with supporting evidence to prove the elements of a crime or the supporting facts of an investigation.

He can speak “accounting” to the accounting profession and speak “accounting” in laymen terms to a judge and jury.  He can present evidence with accuracy and confidence and later be cross-examined on the witness stand about the opinion/findings.

TAX REPRESENTATION

He also understands tax law and the nuisances of collection activities and audits.  Because of his background with the IRS, he knows what questions to ask and can represent you well in an audit or collection activity.  From his experience and training, he wrote Unpaid Payroll Taxes: A Time Bomb You Can Defuse as a guide on tax representation for individuals and small business owners.