[UPDATE 11] Alliantgroup employees in Houston returned to work on Tuesday morning after they were sent home early Friday following the court-ordered raid of their office on May 20. Thanks to a tipster, here is the email they received Sunday evening from Kim Allen, senior director of talent:
Our tipster commented: “This reads like a high school principle applauding her seniors for being orderly at graduation.”
[UPDATE 10] Here is a statement Alliantgroup gave to the Houston Chronicle regarding the court-ordered raid by IRS-CI and the FBI of its Houston offices on Friday morning:
“We look forward to understanding the government’s queries and we are fully cooperating with them. We expect that when the complete facts are known, this matter will be amicably resolved.”
[UPDATE 9] An attorney who worked for a competitor of Alliantgroup for more than a decade sent us a document of court cases in Harris County, TX—the county Houston is in—involving Ag from 2005 to March 2022. Let’s just say the consulting firm has kept its lawyers busy for a LONG time. The attorney who contacted us said:
They have a reputation for poorly defending their shoddy work on audit which resulted in a lot of unhappy clients over the years. The clients claiming credits generated by Alliantgroup would end up owing penalties and interest on top of having to repay the credits – because the IRS often denied the credits in full. From the attached publicly available information,…
