Profile: John J Tigue Jr

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Biography: Business Crime

John J Tigue Jr is a principal at Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, PC. He is a leader in the field of tax-fraud litigation, with extensive experience in handling complex civil and white-collar criminal matters in state and federal court, and litigation civil tax controversies for individual and corporate clients.

Mr Tigue received an LLB from the New York University School of Law and became a certified public accountant in 1966.

Mr Tigue co-authored Dirty Money: A Study in White Collar Crime (Simon and Schuster, 1975), is co-author of the bi-monthly "Tax Litigation" column in the New York Law Journal, and has written numerous related tax-fraud articles. He has held the positions of lecturer at Harvard University Law School and Fordham University, and adjunct assistant professor of law at New York University Graduate School of Law. He frequently writes and speaks on tax fraud and related subjects, and has regularly appeared as a commentator on "Court TV".

Mr Tigue is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers (fellowship admission committee) and a member of the New York City Bar Association, the New York County Lawyers' Association, the New York State Bar Association, the American Bar Association and the Federal Bar Council.

Mr Tigue has been recognised in The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers, The Best Lawyers in America, New York Magazine - The New York Area's Best Lawyers, and New York Super Lawyers - Manhattan Edition.