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June 11, 2024 ¡ª Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, an indictment was unsealed charging Noman Ahmed, Adnan Arshad, Rehman Diwan, Jessica Hendrickson, Jose Marte, Mohammed Saleem, Faisal Shamsi and Waqas Shamsi with conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health care fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States and pay health care kickbacks, paying health care kickbacks, and money laundering.

July 23, 2024 ¡ª Joe Robert Rael of Salt Lake City was sentenced to 20 years¡¯ imprisonment, and a term of 60 months¡¯ supervised release for engaging in a conspiracy to traffic narcotics and launder money.

September 1, 2023 ¡ª Bisheem Jones, also known as "Bosh," of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 25 years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for leading a scheme to traffic over 140 firearms from southern West Virginia to Philadelphia. Shyheem Woodard-Smith, also known as "Peanut" and "Nut," of Philadelphia, was also sentenced today to five years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for his key role in the gun trafficking conspiracy.

Nov. 5, 2024 ¡ª Jason R. Coody, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced the sentences of three defendants who were convicted for their participation in a Ghana-based romance scam.

Jan. 23, 2025 ¡ª A Westford woman was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with a home health care fraud scheme.

The final defendant was sentenced this week to 39 years in federal prison for his role in numerous felony offenses, including kidnapping, robbery, drug trafficking, and firearm offenses. Several other defendants were previously sentenced on the charges.

August 9, 2022 ¡ª Charges unsealed today against four individuals, including two San Diego residents, allege that they defrauded a multinational San Diego technology company in its $150 million purchase of a tech start-up controlled by the defendants.

April 6, 2023 ¡ª Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Amir Bruno Elmaani, a/k/a ¡°Bruno Block,¡± the founder of the cryptocurrency ¡°Oyster Pearl,¡± pled guilty yesterday to tax offenses. In connection with his guilty plea, Elmaani admitted that he had secretly minted and sold for his own gain Pearl cryptocurrency tokens, which caused the price of Pearl tokens to plummet, and that he did not pay income tax on certain cryptocurrency profits. Elmaani agreed that he caused a tax loss of over $5.5 million. Elmaani pled guilty before United States District Judge Colleen McMahon.

December 19, 2022 ¡ª UOP LLC, doing business as Honeywell UOP, a U.S.-based subsidiary of Honeywell International Inc., has agreed to pay more than $160 million to resolve parallel bribery investigations by criminal and civil authorities in the United States and Brazil stemming from bribe payments offered to a high-ranking official at Brazil's state-owned oil company.

IR-2024-134, May 6, 2024 ¡ª To help celebrate this year¡¯s Public Service Recognition Week, the Internal Revenue Service today recognized two IRS teams that reached the finals for the 2024 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals.