tax avoidance

He was also a director of many of the companies involved in the AML tax avoidance case.

Puzder was previously nominated to serve as Secretary of Labor during Trump’s first term, but ultimately withdrew due to allegations of spousal abuse, labor law violations and tax avoidance.

He has also shielded his tax information from scrutiny, and reporting in 2020 from The New York Times revealed years of income tax avoidance and chronic financial losses.

"So in the vast majority of white-collar cases now, federal prison time results for a defendant," says Mr Medrano, who has both prosecuted and defended clients in similar cases of tax avoidance.

These are overwhelmingly changing non-dom tax status for wealthy people, clamping down on tax avoidance, applying VAT to private schools and introducing a windfall tax on big energy.