Nathan Wheeler, a 43-year-old CPA in Portland, Oregon, who also owns a marijuana business, was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison for wire fraud and tax evasion after embezzling nearly $1 million from an Olympic snowboarding medalist. | Oregon CPA sentenced to prison for defrauding Olympic snowboarder | | By Michael Cohn 4 min read | | Nathan Wheeler, a 43-year-old CPA in Portland, Oregon, who also owns a marijuana business, was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison for wire fraud and tax evasion after embezzling nearly $1 million from an Olympic snowboarding medalist. | |
| Inside the cannabis industry | | By Daniel Hood | | Zach Gordon, a pioneer in serving the marijuana business and senior manager of the cannabis practice at Janover LLC, shares the issues facing this new niche, and how accountants can and should work with it. | |
| IRS shifts authority over tax appeal denials to chief counsel’s office | | By Michael Cohn 2 min read | | Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Charles Rettig issued an order Friday transferring authority over denials of requests for tax appeals to the IRS’s Office of Chief Counsel, despite recent legislation creating an independent Office of Appeals at the IRS. | |
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