DOJ backs off from plan to spread its tax division across US

BREAKING: DOJ Scraps Plan to Shutter Tax Division

I just learned that the Department of Justice has shelved its plan to essentially shutter the Department’s Tax Division. The plan had been to disperse the Division’s lawyers to US Attorney’s Offices around the country and maintain a very small residual oversight office at Main Justice. This would satisfy, at least in the view of DOJ’s current political leadership, statutory requirements. But it would trigger big departures of lawyers unwilling t…

DOJ backs off from plan to spread its tax division across US

By Sarah N. Lynch and Jody Godoy