A former US secretary of labor and the son of the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia is representing MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor in the lawsuit alleging that he evaded paying $25 million in Washington, DC, taxes, Blockworks has learned.
Eugene Scalia, a partner in the DC office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, returned to the firm after serving as US Secretary of Labor from September 2019 to January 2021. He previously worked as solicitor of the US Department of Labor from 2002 to 2003.
Scalia is co-chair of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s administrative law and regulatory practice group, as well as a senior member of its labor and employment and financial institutions practices.
Working in private practice, Scalia has represented employers in matters under the National Labor Relations Act and in other actions related to employment discrimination, according to a bio. He has worked on “whistleblower” investigations and litigation since the 2002 enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
A representative for Scalia has not returned requests for comment.
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