Longtime Law & Order: SVU star Tamara Tunie spoke out in court against her former accountant Jospeh Cilibrasi, who allegedly stole more than a million dollars from her (and some other famous people, too) during the decade they worked together. more ›

The Manhattan DA's Office says an accountant stole over $1.5 million from celebrity clients, including a Law & Order: SVU star, and used the money to invest it in the Broadway musical Spring Awakening. ADA Pierce Moser said, "This is a case about a man so desperate for celebrity that he ripped off his entertainment industry clients in an effort to become just like them." more ›

This is why you should NEVER file taxes—and if you do, you'd better hope your accountant isn't going to rip you off: At least twenty customers at an H&R Block in the Bronx were victims of identity theft, according to a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of the customers. Kevin Johns, a construction worker, has been filing his taxes though the Kingsbridge H&R Block location for at least 20 years, but this year he got a call from his tax preparer saying that his return was rejected because he had already filed. And City Room reports that whoever did it collected a sweet $8,499 refund! more ›

Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau wants to hold a Queens tax preparer accountable for allegedly threatening to kill a prosecutor who's handling a grand larceny case against him. 54-year-old Jack Chang (not pictured) did a year in prison in the mid-'90s for funneling nearly $1 million from his clients to his own account; in April he was arrested on similar charges in a case that's being conducted by the same prosecutor who put him away the first time: Gilda Mariani, head of the money laundering and tax crimes unit. more ›

Bernard Madoff's accountant was (finally) charged with helping the fallen financier run his Ponzi scheme. David Friehling was "charged with securities fraud, aiding and abetting investment adviser fraud and four counts of filing false audit reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission," according to the Wall Street Journal. Friehling, the first arrest aside from Madoff's in the case, made his $2.5 million bail after the hearing. more ›

All tax attorney Steven Klig (allegedly!) wanted was that special feeling of empowerment that comes from blackmailing an ex-lover into sending naked photographs of herself. But then she had to ruin everything by blabbing to the FBI about his demanding e-mails, in which he threatened to post a scandalous video montage of their sexual encounters on the Internet. One such email was (allegedly!) sent while the 44-year-old Klig—a partner at finance giant Deloitte—was vacationing with his family at Disney World. (Which, to be fair, can make one creepily horny.) The e-mail, obtained by the Post, goes a little something like, "Just to give you a head's up. I've been doing a little editing on our video. Mostly some blurring of myself so that I won't be recognized. You, on the other hand, can be seen very clearly having the time of your life being f---ed by me." After an investigation, Klig was arrested Monday and charged with extortion, harassment, and generally acting (allegedly!) like a world class scumbag. more ›