
The Importance of Digital Evidence and Digital Forensics in a Criminal Tax Case
By Anthony Diosdi Digital evidence permeates every aspect of the average person's life in today’s society. No matter what someone does these days, a digital footprint is likely being created that contains some type of digital evidence that is recoverable. Sending an email, drafting a document, or surfing the internet all creates digital evidence. The collection and analysis of this digital evidence could be extremely important in a criminal tax prosecution. Today, modern devices can serve as huge repositories of personal information yet be carried in a pocket and assessed with a single hand or even a voice command. In criminal tax cases, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) typically seizes evidence through a search warrant with no forewarning to the persons in possession of the evidence. In many cases, the…