Tom Bishop, CFE, EA
Partner
EXPERIENCE
Tom has over 30 years of combined tax, financial investigative, law enforcement and private sector
consulting experience. Tom provides forensic accounting, litigation and investigative support to
attorneys and their clients, including municipalities, internal and external counsel, senior
management and boards of directors.
Tom formed his firm in December 2022, after serving for years at a two large international
accounting firms, where he was most recently a Managing Director in the forensics practice of a Top
10 U.S. accounting firm. Prior to that, Tom spent over two decades with the Internal Revenue
Service’s Criminal Investigation division before retiring, where he provided executive-level
leadership to their largest field office. He directed numerous, high profile, sensitive and complex
criminal investigations involving voluntary disclosures, offshore banking related crimes, tax
evasion, money laundering, Ponzi schemes and anti- trust related financial crimes. Tom’s last
position at IRS Criminal Investigation division was as the Director of International Field
Operations overseeing global investigations including the IRS’s efforts in the Panama Papers
Investigation.
Specific experience
▪ Conducts forensic investigations in a wide array of sensitive areas including tax, public
corruption, and corporate fraud
▪ Performs investigations on behalf federal, state and local governments seeking to identify and
control fraud, waste and abuse
▪ Conducts investigations with external counsel into violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices
Act (FCPA)
▪ Leads and investigates various fraud, theft, and embezzlement schemes
▪ Recommends changes to internal controls for audit committees
▪ Provides Kovel accounting support to attorneys and their clients
▪ Provides expert witness testimony
Industry involvement
Tom frequently lectures and presents on federal tax matters, international tax administration,
offshore banking and the IRS Voluntary Disclosure Program to various industry organizations
including the American Bar Association; New York City Bar Association; Nassau County Bar
Association; Suffolk County Bar Association; New York State Society of CPAs; the Florida
International Bankers Association, The Co ealth
(VA) Association of Financial Professionals and The Practising Law Institute.
Professional Certifications
Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE)
IRS Enrolled Agent, (EA)
Education
Penn State University, B.S., Accounting
The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center