As a member of the New York bar since 1990, Mr. Abrams has handled a wide variety of legal matters in which assets were hidden, such as RICO, money laundering, identity theft and tax fraud. He additionally handled cases in federal court in which his adversaries were Casio Computer Co. Ltd. of Japan; General Motors Corp.; Detroit Diesel Corp; & Lloyds of London.
Mr. Abrams also located tens of millions of dollars hidden in offshore tax havens; and sought discovery from foreign bank witnesses by filing legal proceedings in Zurich, Geneva, Tel Aviv, Amsterdam and Puerto Rico.
Mr. Abrams currently practices in the asset recovery areas of financial intelligence, financial fraud investigations and forced collection proceedings. He has been cited by Reuters, Forbes Magazine <https://www.forbes.com/2010/03/03/hip-hop-weekly-business-misick-turks-scandal.html#a834394770df>, The New York Times <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/31/business/31offshore.html?scp=1&sq=fred%20l.%20abrams&st=cse>, MoneyLaundering.com and appeared on FoxBusiness News.
II. SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
At the 20th Fraud & Forensic Accounting Conference <https://www.lsu.edu/business/accounting/fraud.php> hosted by Louisiana State University’s Department of Accounting <https://www.lsu.edu/business/accounting/index.php>, Mr. Abrams will present his program “Searching For Hidden Assets”. This annual conference will be held July 24-25, 2025 in Baton Rouge Louisiana. Moreover, since 2007 Mr. Abrams has presented 18 programs about how assets may be concealed both domestically and abroad. Mr. Abrams presented these programs in Abuja, Nigeria; the United Kingdom; Florida; Massachusetts and New York. These programs were at:
- The Association of the Bar of the City of New York
- The Massachusetts’ Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial
Lawyers
- The 8th Annual OffshoreAlert Financial Due Diligence Conference
- The June 2014 Carmelite Chambers International Fraud & Asset Recovery
Conference in London
- The 2018 Asset Recovery Workshop in Abuja, Nigeria sponsored by the
Inter-Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering In West Africa and
the European Union
- The New York County Lawyers’ Association
- The Queens County Bar Association
- The Brooklyn Bar Association
- The Nassau County Bar Association
- The Suffolk County Bar Association
Mr. Abrams is handling a civil rights case for me. He is extremely knowledgeable, professional, and kind. He has been responsive and consistent keeping me informed in every step of this process. I...
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