Walter Pagano is a Tax Partner at Eisner Advisory Group LLC in New York, leading the firm’s tax controversy practice and specializing in litigation consulting, forensic accounting, and white collar criminal defense. He brings more than 40 years of diversified experience to complex civil and criminal matters — including financial statement fraud, commercial disputes, tax controversies, internal investigations, and matrimonial and guardianship litigation — and has testified in federal and state courts and at arbitration hearings, and served as a court-appointed forensic accountant and special fiscal agent. Prior to private practice, Walter was an IRS revenue agent, appeals officer, cooperating revenue agent with IRS Criminal Investigation, and forensic accountant assisting federal prosecutors. He has been a presenter, moderator, and panel member at numerous accounting, legal, fraud, and tax CPE conferences and institutes, and co-authored a chapter in the ACFE Fraud Casebook.