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          Publication 4731, Screening Sheet for Nonbusiness Credit Card Debt Cancellation

          Use Publication 4731, Screening Sheet for Volunteers Assisting Taxpayers with Form 1099-C, for taxpayers with Form 1099-C or other documentation resulting from cancellation of nonbusiness credit card debt and to assist in identifying taxpayers with cancellation of credit card debt issues.
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          Employee Plans News December 17, 2010 Unforeseeable Emergency Distributions from 457b Plans

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          Bookkeeper sentenced to 10 years after embezzling over $29 million

          July 31, 2024 — A Texas woman was sentenced to 10 years in prison followed by a three-year term of supervised release for a scheme to embezzle at least $29 million from her employer – a charitable foundation and several other companies run by a Dallas family. She was also ordered to pay $44,809,438 in restitution to her victims.
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          Former president and executive vice president of local teachers union indicted for stealing union funds in leave scam

          Jan. 13, 2025 — United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Teresa Brady (Jacksonville) and Ruby George (Jacksonville) with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud, eight counts of aiding and abetting wire fraud, and three counts of aiding and abetting mail fraud.
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          Owner of online luxury baby boutique sentenced to 90 months for defrauding COVID-19 relief programs

          Sept. 26, 2024 — The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces that Shambrica Washington, now a resident of Parker, Texas, was sentenced to 90 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release, and restitution of $542,924.45 after being found guilty by a federal jury on 31 counts including wire fraud, bank fraud, money laundering, and false claims offenses.
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          East Bay man charged with running 39 million dollar Ponzi scheme

          May 2, 2023 — A federal grand jury indicted Derek Vincent Chu, charging him with crimes related to an alleged $39 million Ponzi scheme involving over 100 victims, on April 26, 2023, announced United States Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey, Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Special Agent in Charge Darren Lian, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Robert K. Tripp.
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          Massachusetts state representative arrested and charged in alleged fraud and cover-up scheme

          April 11, 2025 ― Massachusetts state representative for the first Barnstable District has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston for allegedly orchestrating a multi-faceted scheme that defrauded a local trade association of tens of thousands of dollars to fund personal and political expenses, and falsifying records to conceal his alleged conduct.
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          Chipley “sovereign citizen” convicted at trial of $3.4 million tax fraud scheme, filing a false lien, and absconding while on bond

          March 1, 2024 — United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that a federal jury today found Judy Grace Sellers guilty of conspiracy to submit false tax returns and defraud the U.S. Treasury, substantive counts of aiding in the preparation of false tax returns, filing a false lien against the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, and failure to appear. Sellers faces a maximum penalty of 23 years in federal prison. Her sentencing hearing is scheduled for May 22, 2024.
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          Baltimore man sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for access device fraud and aggravated identity theft

          Oct. 4, 2024 — U.S. District Chief Judge George L. Russell III yesterday sentenced Dolapo Lawal, of Baltimore, Maryland, to 60 months’ imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release for federal charges of access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.
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          “Sovereign citizen” sentenced to 9 years in prison for $3.4 million tax fraud scheme, filing a false lien, and absconding while on bond

          May 22, 2024 — U.S. District Judge Mark E. Walker today sentenced Judy Grace Sellers to five years in federal prison for conspiracy to submit false tax returns and defraud the U.S. Treasury, substantive counts of aiding in the preparation of false tax returns, and filing a false lien against the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, followed by a consecutive four-year sentence for failure to appear. Sellers was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $23,264.08, representing the unrecovered loss from the tax counts. Sellers originally was indicted in December 2014. Her indictment was superseded to add a charge for absconding while on bond in February 2024. She was convicted on all counts by a federal jury on March 1, 2024.
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