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July 23, 2024 ¡ª Janet Yamanaka Mello, the civilian Army employee who stole over $108 million from a grant program designed to provide services to military dependents and their families was sentenced today to 180 months in prison for five counts of mail fraud and five counts of filing a false tax return.

IR-2024-185, July 11, 2024 ¡ª As part of continuing compliance efforts under the Inflation Reduction Act, the Internal Revenue Service today announced the agency has surpassed the $1 billion mark in collections from high-wealth taxpayers with past-due taxes.

IR-2022-125, June 10, 2022 ¡ª The Internal Revenue Service today wrapped up its annual "Dirty Dozen" scams list for the 2022 filing season, with a warning to taxpayers to avoid being misled into using bogus tax avoidance strategies.

May 7, 2025 ¡ª A resident of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 27 months in prison and ordered to pay a total of more than $8 million in restitution on his conviction of fraud conspiracy, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and filing false income tax returns, Acting United States Attorney Troy Rivetti announced today.

November 20, 2023 ¡ª A federal grand jury in San Antonio returned an indictment charging a San Antonio man with 11 counts related to wire fraud and money laundering.

IR-2022-194, November 3, 2022 ¡ª In fiscal year 2022, IRS Criminal Investigation initiated more than 2,550 criminal investigations, identified over $31 billion from tax and financial crimes, and obtained a 90.6% conviction rate on cases accepted for prosecution.

November 16, 2023 ¡ª On Sept. 19, a federal grand jury in Phoenix returned a 55-count indictment against Luis Ortega of Litchfield Park, and Jeremie Sowerby of Fountain Hills, for Wire Fraud and Transactional Money Laundering.

IR-2024-178, June 28, 2024 ¡ª The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service today issued final regulations requiring custodial brokers to report sales and exchanges of digital assets, including cryptocurrency.

February 28, 2023 ¡ª A Southern California woman who fled to Montenegro to avoid serving a lengthy prison sentence has been returned to the United States after spending approximately one year as a fugitive.

IR-2024-223, Aug. 23, 2024 ¡ª The IRS has made significant progress on a range of improvements, including that all taxpayers can do all of their interactions with the IRS digitally if they choose, making it possible for the IRS to uncover and address tax evasion shrouded in complexity that requires subject matter expertise and data science.