Justin A. Thornton
Private Practice Lawyer
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Practice Areas
White Collar Criminal Defense; White Collar Crime; Criminal Tax Audits; Tax Evasion; Tax Fraud
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Admitted
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1977, South Carolina; 1979, District of Columbia; 1988, North Carolina
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Law School
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University of Exeter School of Law, Exeter, England; University of South Carolina, J.D., 1977, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A., 1971
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Member
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American (Member: Section on Criminal Justice, Committee on White Collar Crime; Chair/Co-Chair, Tax Enforcement Subcommittee, 1992; Section on Taxation, Committee on Civil and Criminal Tax Penalties), Federal and International (Vice-Chair, Business Crime Committee, 2003-2006) Bar Associations; International Association of Prosecutors; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
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Biography
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Recipient, Outstanding Attorney Award, U.S. Department of Justice, Tax Division, 1984; IRS Assistant Commissioner's Award and Designation as Honorary IRS Special Agent, 1987. Publications: "Tax Fraud Enforcement: A United States Perspective," International Bar Association Transnational Crime Conference (2009); "Federal Criminal Tax Enforcement," ABA National Institutes on White Collar Crime (2009) and Criminal Tax Fraud (2008); "Tax Crimes: Has the Bright Line Moved?," Business Crimes Bulletin, Vol. 16, No. 6, Feb. 2008. Senior Trial Attorney, Tax Division, 1979-1987 and Criminal Division, 1978-1979, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. Permanent Member, Judicial Conference of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Fellow, American Bar Foundation. Charter Member, U.S. Sentencing Commission, Practitioners Advisory Group. Member, Board of Editors, Business Crimes Bulletin.
Justin A. Thornton, a former federal prosecutor, is a white collar criminal defense attorney.
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Born
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North Carolina, 1950
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ISLN
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903154459
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