Larry Ross - NCISS 2010 Conference Speaker

An Insider's Look at Lobbying: The Sun Doesn't Come Up in the Morning Just Because the Rooster Crows.

Larry Ross - Ross Financial Services, Inc.
5505 Connecticut Ave, NW #284
Washington, DC 20015

You can tell that Larry Ross grew up in Chicago from listening to him pronounce ‘roof’ (ruff) and ‘gas’ (gæz). He is a lifelong Cubs fan, though the Nats have earned a place in his heart, too.

Larry Ross is the President of Ross Financial Services, Inc. (RFS), a private investigative firm serving businesses, investors, and government agencies. Larry is uniquely qualified to team with you on complex investigations.

His principal expertise is in uncovering irregularities in financial statements and business transactions and in tracing ownership, assets, and cash flow through complex webs of entities. A former tax trial attorney, Larry knows where the bodies are buried, having experienced fraudulent shenanigans first hand.

RFS assisted creditors have obtained recoveries that now exceed eight figures. Larry, having testified as an expert witness in federal court on issues involving fraud and “piercing the corporate veil”, is a good person to have on your team.

A former U.S. House Ways and Means subcommittee Chief Counsel, Larry uses his Washington DC know-how to tap into sources of unique information available from Congress, federal agencies, specialized U.S. courts and foreign embassies.

After graduating from Northwestern University and the University of Michigan Law School, Larry joined the U.S. Justice Department Honors Program where he litigated tax cases in major US cities. He became Chief of the Chicago Tax Refund Docket, litigating tax cases against such well-known Chicagoans as the Crowns, the Pritzkers, and Tony Spilotro.

Next, Larry moved to Capitol Hill where he kept up on Chicagoans through congressional hearings. In the Operation Haven hearings, he found a major offshore tax evasion scheme headquartered in a Chicago law firm. As a result of these hearings, Larry’s subcommittee persuaded the IRS to add the “Foreign Bank Account Question” to the tax return. Another investigation led to the revocation of the tax-exempt status of the Central States Teamsters Pension Fund.

After Larry left Capitol Hill, he successfully lobbied for transition rules to the Tax Reform Act of 1986, saving his clients millions of dollars in taxes. Larry has been a speaker on the subject of tax legislative lobbying. The Tax Legislative Process, FEDERAL BAR ASSOCIATION SEMINAR (available on LexisNexis, Fed. Tax Library, TNT File, 86 TNT 47-19).