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The Last Mohicans · The Wall

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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