Attorney Profiles

Brian P. Kenney
Mr. Kenney recently represented the whistleblower in United States v Estar, Inc., a complex, international scheme in which the United States, as of June of 2007, has recovered over $60 million as a result Mr. Kenney's client disclosing a stock and tax fraud scheme orchestrated by a Taiwanese based corporate conglomerate. Over the past fifteen years, he has also successfully represented numerous whistleblowers in the healthcare, defense, and accounting industries, including: a kidney dialysis billing scheme in which the United States recovered $18 million; a national nursing home scheme in which the United States recovered $10.4 million; a $20 million "Son of Boss" tax shelter scheme orchestrated by accountants in Chicago and Texas; a mental health billing scheme in Pennsylvania in which the United States recovered $7.8 million; and a $30 million Commodities Future Trading tax scheme that operated out of Dubai.

Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Kenney served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Philadelphia, where he prosecuted numerous federal procurement fraud and tax cases including a ground breaking series of bribery cases involving IRS revenue agents in Philadelphia, in which over a dozen accountants, taxpayers, and former IRS revenue agents were convicted of bribery and tax evasion charges. Mr. Kenney has tried federal criminal fraud and tax cases as both defense counsel and prosecutor. Mr. Kenney is a lecturer in the evolving area of tax whistleblower law and was recently invited to participate in a Senate Finance Committee roundtable to discuss the new tax whistleblower law enacted in 2007.

Gerard P. Egan
Mr. Egan began his professional career as a Special Agent for the Criminal Division of the Internal Revenue Service where he investigated and prosecuted criminal tax fraud matters. He then served eleven years as a federal prosecutor, first in the Department of Justice in Washington DC and then as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Mr. Egan regularly investigated and prosecuted federal tax fraud cases during his eleven years as a federal prosecutor. Since leaving the federal government he has represented whistleblowers and defendants in federal tax matters. He now concentrates his whistleblower practice on representing in tax matters. Mr. Egan has over thirty years of trial and appellate experience. He served as an Economic Crime Enforcement Specialist for the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. and was also Chief of the Medicaid Task force in the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Eric L. Young
Eric L. Young received his J.D. in 1999 from the Widener University School of Law. Prior to and during law school, Mr. Young was a business agent and legal strategist for the United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 1776, a large Philadelphia based labor union. He is a member of the Bars of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. His professional associations include the Pennsylvania Bar Association, Philadelphia Bar Association, and the American Trial Lawyers Association.