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Feb. 14, 2024 ¡ª Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on February 9, 2024, Emilee K. Rueda of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was sentenced to 33 months¡¯ imprisonment for wire fraud and tax offenses.

February 23, 2023 ¡ª A Lowell man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for engaging in a scheme to defraud his clients of millions of dollars.

August 3, 2022 ¡ª A Swampscott man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with a scheme to defraud the Internal Revenue Service by falsely inflating taxpayer¡¯s federal income tax refunds and diverting a portion of those refunds to accounts he and his co-conspirators controlled.

IR-2024-187, July 15, 2024 ¡ª The IRS issued a consumer alert today following bad advice circulating on social media about a non-existent ¡°Self Employment Tax Credit¡± that¡¯s misleading taxpayers into filing false claims.

Dec. 17, 2024 ¡ª A Springfield, Mo., business owner was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a nearly $14 million wire fraud conspiracy that utilized his businesses, as well as fake businesses, to fraudulently receive loans under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.

July 31, 2023 ¡ª A Springfield, Mo., business owner has pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in a nearly $14 million wire fraud conspiracy that utilized his businesses, as well as fake businesses, to fraudulently receive loans under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.

July 20, 2023 ¡ª Acting United States Attorney Susan T. Lehr announced that Jeffrey Stenstrom, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Brian C. Buescher to 30 months¡¯ imprisonment for income tax evasion and 78 months¡¯ imprisonment for conspiracy to commit money laundering; these terms of incarceration were ordered to be run concurrently.

June 1, 2022 ¡ª A man who defrauded an investor and two banks out of at least $8.4 million was sentenced Wednesday in federal court, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.

Jan. 26, 2024 ¡ª

November 27, 2023 ¡ª Mohamed Hersi has been sentenced to federal prison for filing false tax returns. Hersi, who owned a tax preparation business, filed false returns on behalf of unwitting clients, collected more than $1 million in preparer fees, and then failed to disclose his own income to the IRS.