About

Fred Abrams has located tens of millions of dollars hidden in offshore tax havens and filed Letters Rogatory / Requests for Legal Assistance, (i.e. court ordered asset searches regarding foreign bank and other witnesses), in Switzerland, Israel and the Netherlands.  A member of the New York bar since 1990, he has handled a wide variety of legal matters in which assets were hidden, such as: RICO; money laundering; tax fraud; etc.


Fred Abrams has served as a faculty member at the Association of the Bar of  the City of New York, for a Continuing Legal Education ("CLE") program about hidden assets.  As a guest of the New York County Lawyers' Association, the Nassau County Bar Association and the Suffolk County Bar Association, he has presented CLE programs about finding and recovering assets hidden domestically and abroad.  Fred Abrams has lectured to private investigators about how assets may be hidden during matrimonial, bankruptcy and other kinds of court cases; and been a guest speaker of the Massachusetts' Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.  He will next be speaking about finding hidden assets this Fall at the New York County Lawyers' Association, Brooklyn Bar Association, Queens Bar Association, etc.


BIOGRAPHICAL & OF COUNSEL ATTORNEY  INFORMATION

Fred Abrams, Esq.

  • J.D. Benjamin Cardozo School of Law-Yeshiva University; B.A. with Departmental Honors, Harpur College S.U.N.Y Binghamton.
  • Legal Publications: Cover Feature Case & Comment, March/April 1987 Vol. 92, No. 2, "O'Brien v. O'Brien Equitable Distribution Dividing Professional Status".
  • Bar Memberships: N.Y. Bar; Federal Bars: U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of N.Y., U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of N.Y., U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Former Judge Hebert Posner (Ret.), "Of Counsel"
  • N.Y. State Supreme Court Justice Queens County from January 1, 1982 - December 31, 2001; New York City Civil Court Judge from January 1, 1976 through December 31, 1981; While on the Bench, ranked top 10% in Case Dispositions: for 14 years in Supreme Civil Term, 6 years in Supreme Criminal Term, and 6 years in Civil Court.
  • Over 100 published decisions in Misc. Reports and the N.Y. Law Journal.
  • Among his many other accomplishments, Judge Posner (Ret.) is a CPA and also served as a N.Y. State Assemblyman between January 1, 1967 through December 31, 1975.

Lcdo. Pedro T. Armstrong, "Of Counsel"
  • J.D. Inter American University; B.A. University of Puerto Rico. Principal office located in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  • Bar Memberships: Puerto Rico Bar; U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico; U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
  • Lcdo. Armstrong has experience in the areas of medical malpractice, negligence, and general corporate litigation.

Peter Verby, Esq., "Of Counsel"
  • B.A. University of Michigan, J.D. Brooklyn Law School.
  • Bar Memberships: New York Bar; and Federal Bars: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
  • Mr. Verby has a background as a trial attorney in both civil and criminal matters.