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March 26, 2025
March 25, 2025
- Pittsford father and son facing multiple fraud and ID theft charges in Rochester area credit card scam
- Principals of fire alarm repair company plead guilty to decade-long scheme to defraud New York City agencies
March 24, 2025
- Morgantown construction company owner admits to harboring illegals, tax fraud
- Indictment charges Ellington woman with fraud and tax offenses
- Muncie drug trafficking ring dismantled, six sentenced to a combined 87 years in federal prison
- Newark expediter admits conspiring to give bribes to Newark officials and other fraud
- Minneapolis man pleads guilty; forty-fifth conviction in the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme
March 21, 2025
- Hialeah tax preparer sentenced to prison for $20 million IRS fraud
- Turtle Creek resident pleads guilty to narcotics trafficking and unlawful possession of firearm
- Hollywood Hills man sentenced to nearly three and a half years in federal prison for paying nearly $2.9 million in kickbacks for drug addiction patient referrals
- Arizona brothers plead guilty for roles in conspiracies to fraudulently obtain nearly $109 million in COVID relief funds
- Johnstown woman pleads guilty to trafficking heroin and crack
- Local tax preparer sentenced to federal prison for filing false tax returns
March 20, 2025
- Tenderloin fentanyl dealer sentenced to over four years for distribution of a controlled substance and international money laundering
- Six defendants charged with attempting to steal approximately $80 million in government check fraud scheme
- Eleven defendants sentenced in connection with Cleveland drug trafficking organization
- Defense contractor president pleads guilty to bribery scheme involving $16 million in small business government contracts
- Duncansville man sentenced to prison for trafficking methamphetamine
- Rapids Theatre owner pleads guilty to defrauding COVID relief programs out of more than $1.8 million
- Rochester trucking company owner convicted by a federal jury of lying to the Department of Transportation going to prison
- Zadeh Kicks owner and chief financial officer plead guilty in $80 million wire fraud and bank fraud conspiracy
- Four individuals sentenced in sophisticated, widespread fraud schemes
- Operators of Jacksonville roofing business sentenced to federal prison for payroll tax fraud and workers’ compensation fraud
- Former Crofton pastor sentenced to over two years in federal prison for fraud and tax offenses
- Belgium national and Utah business owner charged after allegedly running a $5m Ponzi scheme
- India-based chemical manufacturing company and top employees indicted for unlawful importation of fentanyl precursor chemicals
March 19, 2025
- IRS-CI names Gary Shapley as deputy chief
- Vancouver, Washington, high-volume tax preparer indicted for aiding and assisting false tax returns
- Leader of multiyear "Operation Fox Hunt" repatriation campaign directed by the People’s Republic of China sentenced to 20 months in prison
- Three KC men indicted for multistate business burglary conspiracy
- Federal jury finds Feeding Our Future mastermind and co-defendant guilty in $250 million pandemic fraud scheme
- Littleton man sentenced to federal prison for false tax return preparation
- Armed Raleigh man sentenced to 16 years for trafficking fentanyl
- Longtime Rollin’ 60s Crips leader and show business entrepreneur charged in federal complaint alleging racketeering crimes
- Buffalo woman going to prison for filing false tax return
- Michigan man pleads guilty to drug distribution and loan fraud
- Cicero woman sentenced for drug conspiracy and distribution
- Maryland man sentenced to federal prison for pandemic relief loan fraud and commercial loan fraud
March 18, 2025
March 17, 2025
- Utah man admits to defrauding his employer of approximately $1.7m
- Former operations manager sentenced to five years in federal prison for stealing over $2.5 million from employer, covering up the scheme with tax fraud
- Hot Springs man sentenced to more than 4 years in prison for money laundering and wire fraud
March 14, 2025
- Illinois doctor pleads guilty to evading approximately $1.6m in taxes
- Doctor sentenced for health care fraud and money laundering
- Great Falls businessman sentenced for tax and investment fraud
- Two executives of Louisiana compounding pharmacy convicted of defrauding TRICARE and New Jersey state health benefits programs, identity theft, and money laundering
- Former bookkeeper accused of embezzling at least $400,000 from church
March 13, 2025
- Union County man sentenced to more than 3 years in prison for $1.4m fraud scheme
- Par funding “enforcer” sentenced to 11 and a half years in prison for RICO conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and retaliation
- Florida man sentenced for biofuel fraud conspiracy
- Johnstown man sentenced to over four years in prison for narcotics trafficking
- San Francisco tow company operator indicted in scheme to burn competitors’ tow trucks throughout the Bay Area
- Roanoke woman pleads guilty in paycheck protection fraud scheme
- Websites seized, ten arrested, in prison drug distribution scheme in the Eastern District of Texas
March 12, 2025
- Maryland woman convicted in $20m insurance fraud scheme
- Las Vegas return preparer pleads guilty to filing false tax returns for clients
- Des Moines man sentenced to 54 months in federal prison for wire fraud and money laundering charges
- Scrap metal dealer sentenced to over two years in prison for multistate catalytic converter theft conspiracy
- Cryptocurrency founder and CEO convicted of wire fraud and money laundering in connection with marketing and sale of AML bitcoin
- Seven Detroit men charged for drug distribution, illegal possession of weapons, and money laundering
- Tennessee woman pleads guilty to COVID-19 employment tax credit scheme
- Broward tax preparer arrested and charged with tax fraud
- Long Island tax preparer indicted for tax and Covid loan fraud schemes resulting in losses of $12 million
March 11, 2025
March 10, 2025
- Former NFL player sentenced to 2½ years in prison for real estate and gold mine Ponzi scheme that caused $5.3 million in losses
- Two Peoria men sentenced for drug and firearm offenses
- Morgantown business owner sentenced for federal broadband funding fraud
- Newport Beach man indicted for allegedly using sports gambling losses as business expenses to evade federal tax payments
- Three Dominican nationals arrested for drug conspiracy involving fentanyl and crack cocaine
- Mansfield tax preparer sentenced in tax and PPP loan fraud schemes, ordered to pay $10.2 million in restitution
- California businessman indicted for tax evasion
- Suburban Chicago businessman indicted on immigration fraud charges
- Texas pharmacist sentenced to over 17 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $405M in assets for defrauding the Department of Labor
- El Paso woman arrested for allegedly defrauding Paycheck Protection Program of more than $2 million
March 7, 2025
- Nigerian citizen, extradited from the U.K., arraigned on indictment for wire fraud involving stolen tax information
- Utah man sentenced to prison for defrauding $3.4m from victims
- Former tax preparer sentenced for theft of tax refunds
- Eastern NC man sentenced to over four years for role in $1 million COVID fraud scheme
- Thirty-seventh Feeding Our Future defendant pleads guilty with obstruction of justice enhancement for witness tampering attempt
- New Jersey man sentenced to prison as part of $50 million Ponzi scheme involving off-the-road tires
March 6, 2025
- Gang member sentenced to 14 years in prison for racketeering conspiracy
- Rhode Island businesswoman sentenced for failing to pay over employee payroll taxes to the IRS
- Philadelphia resident who led large-scale drug trafficking organization pleads guilty to narcotics charges
- Palmetto man arrested and charged with evading tax payments and filing false tax returns
- Indictment charges district woman with failure to pay approximately $930,000 in federal income and employment taxes for marijuana dispensary
- Federal grand jury indicts former paralegal for wire fraud, tax evasion, and aggravated identity theft
- Tax refund scheme leads to convictions for Hampton Roads fraudsters
March 5, 2025
- Prior convicted felon who led distribution network that had access to and distributed kilograms of drugs during the height of the COVD-19 pandemic is sentenced to prison
- Former executive of injured child benefit program sentenced to nine years in prison for stealing over $6.7M
- Former executive of Chicago-area non-profit pleads guilty in $1.8 million fraud scheme
- West Virginia business owner pleads guilty to employment tax crimes
- Former small business office manager sentenced to 4+ years in federal prison for embezzlement, identity theft
- Three wanted defendants from Mexico secured in Arizona
- Addiction treatment center supervisor sentenced in scheme to defraud federal, state, and private health care insurers
- Nigerian man extradited to the United States to face computer intrusion and theft charges
March 4, 2025
- Prominent Los Angeles tattoo artist pleads guilty to federal tax charge
- St. Louis area non-profit leaders accused of $7 million school meal fraud and money laundering conspiracy
- 25 Canadian nationals charged in Vermont in connection with nationwide multimillion-dollar “grandparent scam”
- Wyoming County ambulance business owner sentenced to prison for tax crimes
- Maryland man pleads guilty to preparing and filing false tax returns
- Two men charged with trafficking fentanyl and cocaine into Waterbury
- Elk Mound business owner sentenced to prison for failing to pay employment taxes
- Wake County woman involved in $2 million international romance scam sentenced to two years for money laundering and tax fraud
- Ex-girlfriend of crypto "godfather" agrees to plead guilty to tax charge for failing to report more than $2.6 million in illicit income
March 3, 2025
- Orlando woman ordered to pay over $3 million for her involvement in wire and tax fraud scheme
- Two brothers from Youngstown, Ohio, each sentenced to at least a decade in prison for participation in interstate cocaine trafficking operation
- Mercer County accounting professor convicted of tax evasion and filing false tax returns sentenced to 24 months in prison
- Columbus men sentenced to decades in prison for their roles in drug and human trafficking rings, overdose and violent deaths
- Former executive director of non-profit serving Oakland youth charged with embezzling funds, evading taxes
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