R.J. litigates a wide range of complex federal tax controversies, including FBAR penalties, transfer pricing, summons enforcement, employment taxes, captive insurance, 501(c) tax-exempt status, IRS collection disputes, conservation easements, and challenges to IRS rules. He also has extensive experience as a federal prosecutor, having successfully led multiple investigations into the promoters of suspected illegal tax shelters for tax evasion, wire fraud, and money laundering. His broad experience as a Justice Department trial attorney provides valuable insight that R.J. uses to assist businesses, financial institutions, and individuals in managing risk when facing federal tax audits, government investigations, and civil or criminal tax litigation.
Fundamentally, R.J. is a litigator with the hands-on experience necessary to develop and execute a case strategy from initiation through trial. He has extensive experience managing large-scale eDiscovery and related discovery disputes, briefing and arguing dispositive motions, and examining witnesses in depositions, before federal grand juries, and at trial. Throughout his career, he has been the recipient of numerous Tax Division Outstanding Attorney awards and was honored with the Outstanding Mentor Award from the Department.
R.J. began his legal career clerking at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims for Judge Nancy B. Firestone. Previously, he served as a federal auditor with the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
- The New Era of Tax Enforcement – What You Really Need to Know Now, March 11, 2026, ABA White Collar Crime Institute
- Litigation Hot Topics, March 5, 2026, Eversheds Sutherland Developments in Tax Administration, Controversy and Enforcement (ACE) Seminar
- Phi Beta Kappa
- District of Columbia
- New York
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims
- U.S. Supreme Court
- J.D. cum laude, Georgetown University Law Center
- M.S., Towson University
- B.A., Johns Hopkins University