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VT-2024-01, Aug. 13, 2024 ¡ª The Internal Revenue Service announced today tax relief for individuals and businesses in Vermont that were affected by severe storms and flooding that began on Aug. 8, 2024. These taxpayers now have until Feb. 3, 2025, to file various federal individual and business tax returns and make tax payments.

PA-2024-02, Sept. 18, 2024 ¡ª The IRS announced today tax relief for individuals and businesses in Pennsylvania that were affected by Tropical Storm Debby that began on Aug. 9, 2024. These taxpayers now have until Feb. 3, 2025, to file various federal individual and business tax returns and make tax payments.

CA-2023-02, January 24, 2023 ¡ª Victims of severe winter storms, flooding, landslides, and mudslides beginning December 27, 2022, now have until May 15, 2023, to file various individual and business tax returns and make tax payments, the Internal Revenue Service announced today.

AZ-2024-09, Nov. 6, 2024 ¡ª The Internal Revenue Service announced today tax relief for individuals and businesses of the Havasupai Tribe in the state of Arizona affected by flooding that began on Aug. 22, 2024. These taxpayers now have until Feb. 3, 2025, to file various federal individual and business tax returns and make tax payments.

MO-2024-14, July 29, 2024 ¡ª The Internal Revenue Service announced today tax relief for individuals and businesses in Missouri that were affected by severe storms, straight-line winds, tornadoes, and flooding that began on May 19, 2024. These taxpayers now have until Feb. 3, 2025, to file various federal individual and business tax returns and make tax payments.

Dec. 6, 2024 ¡ª The operator of numerous sober homes in Massachusetts, who also operated insulation companies receiving funds through the Mass Save Program, pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to his involvement in four different fraud schemes involving sober homes in the Greater Boston area, the Mass Save Program, mortgage lenders and a federal loan program that assisted businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Feb. 6, 2025 ¡ª A former Japanese-language interpreter was sentenced today to 57 months in federal prison for illegally ¨C and without authorization ¨C transferring nearly $17 million from the bank account of Major League Baseball (MLB) star Shohei Ohtani to pay off his own substantial gambling debts incurred with an illegal bookmaking operation and for signing a false tax return.

April 1, 2025 ¡ª Basheer Jones of Cleveland, Ohio, has been sentenced to 28 months in prison by U.S. District Judge J. Philip Calabrese, after pleading guilty to conspiring to commit wire fraud and honest services fraud by using his role as a public official for personal financial gain by seeking to defraud multiple community stakeholders out of more than $200,000.

April 24, 2025 ¡ª Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Roberto Gustavo Cortes Ripalda (Cortes), the co-founder, co-owner, and former Chief Executive Officer of the international investment advisory firm Biscayne Capital, was sentenced by United States District Judge Carol Bagley Amon to 10 years in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Cortes pleaded guilty to the charge in September 2023 after being charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. As part of the sentence, Cortes was also ordered to pay $3.4 million in forfeiture and $103 million in restitution to over 110 victims.

January 27, 2023 ¡ª A federal jury convicted David Jess Miller and his company, Minnesota Independent Cooperative ("MIC"), of a wide array of charges relating to the unlicensed and fraudulent distribution of prescription drugs, announced United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds; Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Special Agent in Charge of the Oakland Field Office Darren Lian; Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Robert K. Tripp; U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) Pittsburgh Division Inspector in Charge Lesley Allison; and U.S. Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations (FDA-OCI) Special Agent in Charge of the Metro Washington Field Office George A. Scavdis. The verdicts were handed down after a two-week trial before the Hon. Charles R. Breyer, Senior U.S. District Judge.