PERSON: Kevin Downing
Employer
Miller & Chevalier Chartered
Position
Attorney
Biography
Kevin Mitchel Downing is an American lawyer. He has previously worked for the United States Department of Justice Tax Division and as a partner for the law firm of Miller & Chevalier.
Downing graduated with a degree in accounting from St. Joseph’s University in 1988. He received his J.D. cum laude from St. John’s University in 1994 and his LL.M. in tax law at the New York University School of Law in 1996.
Downing worked in the United States Department of Justice from 1997 to 2012 in the Tax Division, serving first as a trial attorney in the Western Criminal Enforcement Section and then as senior litigation counsel. At the Justice Department, Downing handled cases involving tax evasion via offshore financial vehicles and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations. Downing was the federal prosecutor who handled the KPMG tax shelter fraud case and a case involving allegations that the Swiss bank UBS AG used its private bank division to aid wealthy U.S. nationals evade taxes. However, Downing grossly mishandled the UBS AG case resulting in a lack of appropriate prosecution of tax evaders and humiliation of the U.S. Government. Both cases ended in deferred prosecution agreements in 2005. In 2009, Downing was awarded the John Marshall Award by the Department of Justice for his role in the UBS case. In 2012, Reuters described Downing as “the U.S. prosecutor most responsible for piercing the veil of Swiss bank secrecy”.; however, one must consider the incompetence he displayed as noted in the UBS AG whistleblower’s account.
Downing left DoJ in June 2012 to become a partner at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Miller & Chevalier, where he remained until August 2017. When he joined the firm, he told Reuters that his practice at Miller & Chevalier would involve advising financial institutions on how to comply with the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) of 2010. According to his firm biography, his work focused on “criminal and civil tax matters” as well as money laundering, white collar, and FCPA matters.
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Downing graduated with a degree in accounting from St. Joseph’s University in 1988. He received his J.D. cum laude from St. John’s University in 1994 and his LL.M. in tax law at the New York University School of Law in 1996.
Downing worked in the United States Department of Justice from 1997 to 2012 in the Tax Division, serving first as a trial attorney in the Western Criminal Enforcement Section and then as senior litigation counsel. At the Justice Department, Downing handled cases involving tax evasion via offshore financial vehicles and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations. Downing was the federal prosecutor who handled the KPMG tax shelter fraud case and a case involving allegations that the Swiss bank UBS AG used its private bank division to aid wealthy U.S. nationals evade taxes. However, Downing grossly mishandled the UBS AG case resulting in a lack of appropriate prosecution of tax evaders and humiliation of the U.S. Government. Both cases ended in deferred prosecution agreements in 2005. In 2009, Downing was awarded the John Marshall Award by the Department of Justice for his role in the UBS case. In 2012, Reuters described Downing as “the U.S. prosecutor most responsible for piercing the veil of Swiss bank secrecy”.; however, one must consider the incompetence he displayed as noted in the UBS AG whistleblower’s account.
Downing left DoJ in June 2012 to become a partner at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Miller & Chevalier, where he remained until August 2017. When he joined the firm, he told Reuters that his practice at Miller & Chevalier would involve advising financial institutions on how to comply with the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) of 2010. According to his firm biography, his work focused on “criminal and civil tax matters” as well as money laundering, white collar, and FCPA matters.
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