Climate Change, Environment, Science and the Law

Recently, a financial headline news item broke about the outcome of a big lawsuit involving the IRS and Coca-Cola. In that lawsuit Dr. Brian Becker, founder of Precision Economics, was hired by the IRS to serve as an expert witness and to challenge Coca-Cola's tax claims.

In this episode of "Cut to the Chase" Gregg Goldfarb interviews Dr. Becker, one of the foremost economists in the country, to go over the case against Coca-Cola, and help us understand the decision.

Today on "Cut to the Chase:" host Gregg Goldfarb talks with Boris Musheyev, an in demand CPA to Attorneys.

Boris is the owner of BorisMTax Inc and is well known for his thorough understanding of tax strategies for attorneys as well as his mastery of all things PPP.

In today's episode Boris shares his best insights and guidance regarding both round 1 and round 2 of PPP. According to Boris, "in order to receive PPP two, you do not have to be forgiven for PPP one. You have to be in the process of applying or with expectancy that you will be forgiven for PPP one. "

Today on "Cut to the Chase:" host Gregg Goldfarb has a virtual sit down with Attorney and women's advocate Marcus Susen of The Susen Law Group.

Marcus was appointed lead counsel in the multi-district litigation against Essure, marketed as a permanent form of birth control. The product has since been taken off the market.

In the course of the conversation Marcus stated that "what I've come to realize is that over the past decade, women are being targeted by Big Pharma and corporate America, and they're also being burdened with all the risks that men don't face for a lot of medical procedures and drugs, birth control being one of them."

In today's episode host Gregg Goldfarb talks with Professor Richard Grosso, a heavyweight in the environmental world as well as an attorney and activist.

Their discussion focuses on a number of important environmental issues in South Florida including a roadway project through the Everglades, the Homestead Airforce Base plans, climate change, sea level rise and regional climate impact. Professor Grosso also gives an update on the Biscayne Bay pollution problems and lastly they discuss the Everglades and their restoration updates.

Gregg refers to Professor Grosso as "a true treasure for the state of Florida, and the environmental movement."

In today's episode host Gregg Goldfarb talks with David Chase, a securities lawyer who previously worked as senior counsel at the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. They discuss the SEC lawsuit against the cryptocurrency Ripple (XRP), alleging that it "engaged in the unregistered distribution or sale of securities."

According to Mr. Chase, "the SEC is looking for a big fish, if you will, to send the market a message. And in this case with Ripple no doubt is that message." A timely topic as we are seeing Bitcoin and the world of cryptocurrencies continue to gain traction.

Host Gregg Goldfarb talks with Attorney Rodrigo Vilar of The Law Office of Rodrigo Vilar in Miami, Florida.

Rodrigo is on the cutting edge of immigration law and in this episode he takes us through some of the most important immigration topics for the new administration to consider including DACA, ICE, Asylum and various types of visa's.

According to Rodrigo, "I agree that an individual that has a rap sheet or has many arrests should be deported from the United States. But I think we should also look at the humane side, case by case and see which people would deserve to be here and seeing what avenues there may be for them to become lawful in the United States."

Host Gregg Goldfarb talks with Attorney Mike Burns of Mostyn Law. Mike is involved in the 3M Combat Arms Earplugs Litigation.

According to Mike it is a "terrible story what's happened and what 3M did to our soldiers who've been out there defending our country and relied on this product to protect them. And 3M knew the whole time that the product didn't do what they claimed it would do."

In this episode we go back to the beginning and dissect the origin of the story all the way through to when the first trials are scheduled to begin in March 2021.

If you would like to reach out to Mike Burns you can do so by calling his office at 713-714-1111. Be sure to mention that you heard him on the Cut to the Chase podcast!