Former IRS Director Joins Dallas Law Firm Damon Rowe. Courtesy photo

Former IRS Director Joins Dallas Law Firm

Damon Rowe, the former executive director of the Internal Revenue Service's Office of Fraud Enforcement, has joined Meadows, Collier, Reed, Cousins, Crouch & Ungerman in Dallas. Rowe will focus his practice on white-collar defense, federal tax disputes and governmental regulatory litigation. He has expertise in cryptocurrency, financial crimes, civil and criminal tax, money laundering, fraud, internal investigations and the Bank Secrecy Act.

Rowe began his IRS career in 1998 as a special agent and held numerous leadership positions for the agency, including as special agent in charge for both the Los Angeles and Dallas field offices.

In leading the Office of Fraud Enforcement, he implemented strategies to evaluate emerging threats through an increased reliance on data science and analytics, while establishing revised metrics, streamlined processes and a revamped organizational structure for the office. Those strategic decisions resulted in a dramatic increase in multimillion-dollar fraud schemes referred for civil fraud penalties as well as referrals for criminal investigation and prosecution.