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Meet Douglas Edelman \u2013 the 73-year-old defense contractor who became one of America’s biggest alleged tax cheats after striking gold with a $7 billion military contract.<\/p>\n

This story starts in the early 1990s when Edelman left Texas to chase opportunities in post-Soviet Russia and later Kyrgyzstan. After 9\/11, he and a partner in Kyrgyzstan landed a massive military contract providing fuel and services for US troops in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

He’s one of those guys who cashed in big on the war. The contract made him a multimillionaire and bankrolled a lavish lifestyle with his French wife, Delphine \u2013 multiple European homes, yachts, and a $43 million London mansion.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors claim Edelman used a classic ownership shell game: falsely reporting that his French wife owned the defense contracting companies since, as a French citizen, she wouldn’t face US tax obligations.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, he reported less than $1 million in annual income as a mere “consultant” to these companies from 2016 to 2020.<\/p>\n

Edelman was trying to dodge a unique aspect of US taxation: America taxes global income regardless of where you live.<\/p>\n

As we discussed in Episode 430 of The Accounting Podcast<\/a>, these high-profile cases serve as powerful reminders of what’s at stake with IRS budget cuts and the terminations of thousands of revenue agents going after alleged tax cheats like Edelman.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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