Anshuman A. Vaidya

Anshuman Vaidya is an experienced litigator and counselor who puts his clients’ needs first. His practice covers government investigations, white-collar crime, tax evasion, regulatory enforcement, and appellate litigation.

Anshuman draws upon nearly two decades of government enforcement experience, most recently as a supervisory attorney with the U.S. Department of the Treasury in the IRS Chief Counsel’s Office in Chicago, overseeing attorneys throughout the Midwest. He advised federal agents on tax evasion, conspiracy, money laundering, crypto-currency, CARES Act Fraud, and public corruption investigations. Prior to that, Anshuman spent over a decade as a white-collar prosecutor in Illinois, holding leadership positions in the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office and the Illinois Attorney General’s Office. He successfully prosecuted individuals for securities fraud, mail and wire fraud, embezzlement, insurance fraud, identity theft, and bank fraud. Anshuman started his career in the Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Division, where he spearheaded civil enforcement investigations into the energy, telecom, banking, and insurance industries.

During his career Anshuman has tried over a dozen cases to verdict, and has handled litigation before Illinois trial and appellate courts and in U.S. District Court. He also serves on the faculty of Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, where he teaches "Investigation, Prosecution, and Defense of Tax Crimes."

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