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The Internal Revenue Service has named Guy Ficco as its next deputy chief for IRS Criminal Investigation. He takes over on July 15 from Jim Robnett, who is retiring after 36 years of IRS service, of which 28 years were with IRS-CI.
Ficco will oversee 20 field offices and 11 foreign posts, including approximately 2,000 special agents investigating tax fraud and other financial crimes.
Ficco started with the IRS in July 1995. He is currently, executive director of global operations policy and support, a job he has held since May 2021. In that position, he oversees CI's policies related to investigations, as well as the agency's international footprint.
Bob Scott has provided information to the tax and accounting community since 1991, first as technology editor of Accounting Today, and from 1997 through 2009 as editor of its sister publication, Accounting Technology. He is known throughout the industry for his depth of knowledge and for his high journalistic standards. Scott has made frequent appearances as a speaker, moderator and panelist and events serving tax and accounting professionals. He has a strong background in computer journalism as an editor with two former trade publications, Computer+Software News and MIS Week and spent several years with weekly and daily newspapers in Morris County New Jersey prior to that. A graduate of Indiana University with a degree in journalism, Bob is a native of Madison, Ind