A Bronx-based tax preparer and lawyer has been disbarred after being convicted of preparing false tax returns that claimed more than $4.7 million in credits and expenses, for which the IRS paid out some $3 million, as he pocketed $1.5 million in tax-client fees, according to the disbarment opinion and a U.S. Department of Justice news release about his criminal case.

Christopher John Ahern has been disbarred by the Appellate Division, First Department court in an opinion that rejected his argument that he should not be automatically disbarred, pursuant to state Judiciary Law § 90, because there isn’t an analogous state felony, he claimed, to his federal felony conviction of filing false claims under 18 § USC 287.

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