Kathy Enstrom
Kathy Enstrom is the Director of Investigations for the Moore Tax Law Group and a former Executive within Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS CI). Having spent nearly 28 years in federal law enforcement, Ms. Enstrom has expertise in financial crimes, specifically income and employment tax evasion, money laundering, bank secrecy act violations, government assistance fraud and bank fraud.
Ms. Enstrom has a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from Mount Mercy University (Cedar Rapids, IA) and a Master of Business Administration from Cardinal Stritch University (Milwaukee, WI). She is also a Certified Fraud Examiner through the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and an Enrolled Agent and authorized to represent taxpayers before the Internal Revenue Service.
Ms. Enstrom began her IRS career in 1995 as an intern with IRS CI in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and the year following was sworn in as a Special Agent in Chicago, Illinois. She then moved throughout the organization in various investigative and management roles. These supervisory roles were located in Chicago, New York City, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, and Ottawa, Canada.
Ms. Enstrom rose to an executive position within IRS CI and her last assignment was to serve as Executive Director of Field Operations-Northern Area, overseeing one-third of the United States which included offices headquartered in Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Newark, Boston and New York City. Previous to this assignment, she was the Executive Special Agent in Charge for the Chicago Field Office and the Executive Director for CI’s Operations, Policy and Support. There she oversaw all CI policy and Internal Revenue Manual updates and the Financial Crimes Section, National Forensic Lab, Special Investigative Techniques Section, Warrants & Forfeitures Section, Treasury Liaison, TEOAF Liaison and FinCEN Liaison.
Ms. Enstrom’s time in federal law enforcement concluded with her role as Chicago’s Special Agent in Charge of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of Inspector General from July 2021 to March 2023. In this role, she conducted investigations involving bank fraud and oversaw agents covering six states in the Midwest which included Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky.
Ms. Enstrom has a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from Mount Mercy University (Cedar Rapids, IA) and a Master of Business Administration from Cardinal Stritch University (Milwaukee, WI).
Ms. Enstrom lives in the northern suburbs of Chicago with her husband and a rescued Doberman Pincher, named Hank.
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
- Kathy Enstrom will be speaking at the Everlaw Summit during the “Government Networking Session” in San Francisco, CA on October 10-12, 2023. Learn more here.
- Kathy Enstrom will be speaking at the ABA’s Virtual Fall Tax Meeting on the ABA’s Tax Practice & Technology Committee’s panel on October 19, 2023.
- Kathy Enstrom will be speaking on the “Employee Retention Credits – Promoters, (Ghost) Preparers and the Employers Caught in the Middle” panel at the UCLA Tax Controversy Institute in Beverly Hills, CA on October 26, 2023.
- Kathy Enstrom will be the keynote speaker at the Accounting & Financial Women’s Alliance (AWFA) Women Who Count Conference on October 26, 2023, in Reno, NV. Register and learn more here.
- Kathy Enstrom will be speaking on the “Digital Forensic Accounting: Real Examples on How This Will Help Tax Professionals in Today’s World” panel at the Hawaii Tax Institute Conference on November 5-9, 2023.
- Kathy Enstrom will be speaking at the 2023 IRS Tax Representation Conference, December 1, 2023. Register and learn more here.
Previous Speaking Engagements
2023
- Kathy Enstrom spoke on a “COVID Relief Fraud & Enforcement” panel at the Federal Bar Associations St. Louis Chapter’s Summer Tax Summit in St. Louis, MO on August 29, 2023.
- Kathy Enstrom was on a speaking panel about “IRS Criminal Investigation Division Enforcement Update” at the NYU Tax Controversy Forum, New York, NY on June 9, 2023.
- Kathy Enstrom was on a speaking panel regarding Criminal Tax Enforcement Updates on June 7, 2023, for the Annual BBQ hosted by Agostino & Associates, in Hackensack, NJ.
- Kathy Enstrom was on a panel speaking on topic of “How to Navigate Defending PPP, EDIL and ERC Cases” at the ABA Section of Taxation, May Tax Meeting in Washington, DC on May 6, 2023.