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WASHINGTON, May 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Winston & Strawn LLP is pleased to announce the addition of Jonathan D. Brightbill as partner in the firm s Washington, D.C., office and member of the firm s Litigation and White Collar, Regulatory Defense, and Investigations Practices.
Jonathan represents public and private companies, corporate officers, and other individuals across white collar, regulatory defense, and government and internal investigation matters, as well as complex commercial disputes. His commercial litigation experience encompasses environmental and regulatory litigation, business disputes, false advertising, consumer protection, and extensive class action and citizen suit defense work, as well as intellectual property such as patent, trademark, and trade secret disputes.
The small organization has been led by four East European nationals that pleaded guilty to conspiring to cyber-crime activities and “engage in a Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization (RICO) arising from their providing ‘bulletproof hosting’ services between 2008 and 2015”.
The hosting services have been used by cybercriminals across the globe to distribute malware and attack financial institutions and private persons across the United States.
Official documents released to the public show that Russian nationals Aleksandr Grichishkin, Andrei Skvortsov, as well as the Lithuanian Aleksandr Skorodumov, and Pavel Stassi of Estonia founded the bulletproof hosting organization and have been active members the entire time.
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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has scored another significant victory in its rapidly increasing virtual currency tax enforcement efforts. On May 5, 2021, the US District Court for the Northern District of California entered an order authorizing the IRS to serve a John Doe summons on popular cryptocurrency exchange, Payward Ventures Inc. d/b/a Kraken (Kraken). Specifically, the court’s order grants the IRS permission to serve a John Doe summons on Kraken in order to obtain information on US taxpayers who conducted the equivalent of at least $20,000 in total transactions for each year from 2016 to 2020.
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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has scored another significant victory in its rapidly increasing virtual currency tax enforcement efforts. On May 5, 2021, the US District Court for the Northern District of California entered an order authorizing the IRS to serve a John Doe summons on popular cryptocurrency exchange, Payward Ventures Inc. d/b/a Kraken (Kraken). Specifically, the court’s order grants the IRS permission to serve a John Doe summons on Kraken in order to obtain information on US taxpayers who conducted the equivalent of at least $20,000 in total transactions for each year from 2016 to 2020.
If the IRS follows its playbook from the Coinbase summons, its victory here and with the Poloniex summons (upheld by a court in Massachusetts a few weeks ago), will likely result in thousands of US taxpayers receiving a letter from the IRS regarding their virtual currency transactions. As noted in its response to the court, over the past few