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FRESH BUSTFormer Federal Employee Pleads Guilty to Defrauding the Federal Government of Approximately $194 Million⚖ON THE RECORDFormer U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez convicted — bribery, extortion & acting as a foreign agent — 11 years⚖ON THE RECORDFormer U.S. Rep. George Santos pled guilty — wire fraud & aggravated identity theft — 87 months⚖ON THE RECORDFormer FBI agent Robert Hanssen — espionage for Russia — life without parole⚖ON THE RECORDFormer CIA officer Aldrich Ames — espionage against the United States — life in prison⚖ON THE RECORDFormer FBI counterintel chief Charles McGonigal pled guilty — sanctions violations for a Russian oligarch⚖ON THE RECORDFormer Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich — convicted of corruption — 14 years⚖ON THE RECORDFormer Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick — racketeering & extortion — 28 years⚖ON THE RECORDFormer U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah — racketeering & fraud — 10 years⚖ON THE RECORDFormer U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter pled guilty — conversion of campaign funds⚖ON THE RECORDFormer U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. pled guilty — $750K in campaign funds — 30 months⚖ON THE RECORDFormer IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn — stole & leaked tax returns — 5 years⚖ON THE RECORDBaltimore Gun Trace Task Force — 8 police officers convicted of racketeering & robbery⚖ON THE RECORD'Fat Leonard' scandal — dozens of Navy officials convicted of bribery & fraud⚖ON THE RECORDFormer FCI Dublin warden Ray Garcia convicted — abuse of incarcerated women — 70 months⚖ON THE RECORDFormer DHS acting IG Charles Edwards pled guilty — stealing government software & data⚖ON THE RECORDFormer VA pathologist Robert Levy — fraud & involuntary manslaughter — 20 years⚖ON THE RECORDFormer NY Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver — convicted of corruption — 6.5 years⚖ON THE RECORDFormer NSA contractor Reality Winner — Espionage Act — 63 months⚖FRESH BUSTFormer Federal Employee Pleads Guilty to Defrauding the Federal Government of Approximately $194 Million⚖ON THE RECORDFormer U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez convicted — bribery, extortion & acting as a foreign agent — 11 years⚖ON THE RECORDFormer U.S. Rep. George Santos pled guilty — wire fraud & aggravated identity theft — 87 months⚖ON THE RECORDFormer FBI agent Robert Hanssen — espionage for Russia — life without parole⚖ON THE RECORDFormer CIA officer Aldrich Ames — espionage against the United States — life in prison⚖ON THE RECORDFormer FBI counterintel chief Charles McGonigal pled guilty — sanctions violations for a Russian oligarch⚖ON THE RECORDFormer Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich — convicted of corruption — 14 years⚖ON THE RECORDFormer Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick — racketeering & extortion — 28 years⚖ON THE RECORDFormer U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah — racketeering & fraud — 10 years⚖ON THE RECORDFormer U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter pled guilty — conversion of campaign funds⚖ON THE RECORDFormer U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. pled guilty — $750K in campaign funds — 30 months⚖ON THE RECORDFormer IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn — stole & leaked tax returns — 5 years⚖ON THE RECORDBaltimore Gun Trace Task Force — 8 police officers convicted of racketeering & robbery⚖ON THE RECORD'Fat Leonard' scandal — dozens of Navy officials convicted of bribery & fraud⚖ON THE RECORDFormer FCI Dublin warden Ray Garcia convicted — abuse of incarcerated women — 70 months⚖ON THE RECORDFormer DHS acting IG Charles Edwards pled guilty — stealing government software & data⚖ON THE RECORDFormer VA pathologist Robert Levy — fraud & involuntary manslaughter — 20 years⚖ON THE RECORDFormer NY Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver — convicted of corruption — 6.5 years⚖ON THE RECORDFormer NSA contractor Reality Winner — Espionage Act — 63 months⚖
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William A. Cohan

Rancho Santa Fe, California · Denver, Colorado · Federal Criminal Tax Trial Counsel

Decades of federal trial and appellate work in the hardest arena there is — criminal tax defense — including a Las Vegas verdict so complete the government had to start over from scratch.

The Practice

A Career In The Hardest Arena

William A. Cohan built a decades-long federal trial and appellate practice centered on criminal tax defense — the arena where the government picks its shots and wins the overwhelming majority of what it brings. His profile claims more criminal-tax acquittals over thirty years than any attorney in the country; Atticus flags that as the firm's own claim — but the verified record below explains why they dared print it.

2007

United States v. Kahre — Las Vegas

Robert Kahre paid workers in U.S. gold and silver coin and valued the wages at face value. The government answered with a nine-defendant, 161-count prosecution. Cohan stood in the defense — and the 2007 trial ended with zero convictions on all 161 counts: acquittals and hung counts across the board, not one guilty verdict in the room. Veteran observers called it one of the most complete defense stands in modern criminal tax history.

2009

The Honest Footnote

The government re-tried Kahre in 2009 and won — that is how badly they wanted him, and this wall reports it because walls that only report the wins are advertising, not history. What the retrial cannot erase: a jury of ordinary citizens heard the government's best 161 counts and gave it nothing.

The Line

Why He Belongs In The Hall

Cohan spent his career taking the cases most of the bar crosses the street to avoid — citizens against the Treasury, with the presumption running against them from voir dire. That is Mohican work: standing between the ordinary citizen and the machinery, trial after trial, decade after decade.

The Study — The Cohan Band Of The Spectrum

Of the surviving circle, Cohan holds the pure-trial band: the courtroom itself. He is proof the species produced more than one kind of specialist — Brough the paralegal, Holland the pen, Becraft the library, Dickstein the author, Cohan the trial sword. Verdict: the band survives in him; find the fifty-year-old carrying it next, because the study could not.

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