{"id":172,"date":"2008-09-11T19:54:49","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T19:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whistleblowerlawyerblog.com\/2008\/09\/irs_whistleblower_director_and.html"},"modified":"2021-06-11T17:50:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T21:50:47","slug":"irs_whistleblower_director_and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/irs_whistleblower_director_and\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS Whistleblower Office Director and Tax Court Judge Gather with Whistleblower Attorneys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whistleblowerlawyerblog.com\/new_irs_whistleblower_office_h\/\">new IRS Whistleblower office was created in early 2007<\/a>, IRS Whistleblower Office Director Stephen A. Whitlock addressed questions from whistleblower attorneys at the Taxpayers Against Fraud annual conference yesterday in Washington.  Joining him as panelists were U.S. Tax Court Special Trial Judge Lewis R. Carluzzo; Professor Dennis J. Ventry, Jr. of American University&#8217;s Washington College of Law; Erika Kelton of Phillips &amp; Cohen LLP; and as moderator Paul D. Scott of the Law Offices of Paul D. Scott.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, I had the pleasure of meeting one-to-one and interviewing IRS Whistleblower Office Director Whitlock for an article on &#8220;best practices&#8221; for lawyers who pursue IRS Whistleblower claims, which will appear in Taxpayers Against Fraud&#8217;s publication, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taf.org\/quarterly.htm\">TAF <em>Quarterly Review<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whistleblowerlawyerblog.com\/irs_rewards_program_tax\/\">whistleblower lawyer blog has followed closely<\/a>, much progress with the new IRS Whistleblower Program has occurred since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whistleblowerlawyerblog.com\/irs_whistleblower_officials_ex\/\">Director Whitlock first appeared at the TAF Annual Conference a year ago to explain the new program<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/irs_whistleblower_director_and\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading IRS Whistleblower Office Director and Tax Court Judge Gather with Whistleblower Attorneys\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u2192<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time since the new IRS Whistleblower office was created in early 2007, IRS Whistleblower Office Director Stephen A. 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