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April 8, 2024 ¡ª The City of Atlanta¡¯s former chief financial officer (CFO), Jimmie ¡°Jim¡± A. Beard, pleaded guilty today to theft of government funds, which included the purchase and possession of two machine guns, and obstructing federal tax laws.

November 1, 2023 ¡ª An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Braden John Karony, Kyle Nagy, and Thomas Smith with conspiracy to commit securities fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy for their roles in defrauding investors in a decentralized finance digital asset called ¡°SafeMoon¡± (SFM) that was issued by their company SafeMoon LLC.

April 18, 2023 ¡ª A former doctor has been sentenced to 84 months in federal prison for scheming to defraud private insurance companies and the Tricare health care program for U.S. military service members by fraudulently submitting nearly $120 million in claims related to the 1-800-GET-THIN Lap-Band surgery business, the Justice Department announced today.

IR-2024-139, May 14, 2024 ¡ª The Internal Revenue Service issued a consumer alert today following ongoing concerns about a series of tax scams and inaccurate social media advice that led thousands of taxpayers to file inflated refund claims during the past tax season.

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.

Jan. 17, 2025 ¡ª Former Rhode Island personal injury attorney Peter P.D. Leach has been sentenced to nearly three years in federal prison and ordered to repay clients that he defrauded when he conducted a Ponzi scheme with their settlement funds, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.

Feb. 11, 2025 ¡ª Milton C. Grimes, a long-time Los Angeles lawyer, was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison for evading the payment of more than $7.2 million in federal and state taxes over a period of more than two decades.

February 23, 2023 ¡ª David C. Weiss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that today Circuit Judge Stephanos Bibas, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, sitting by designation in the District of Delaware, sentenced Shakira Martinez to 9 years' incarceration for money laundering, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and structuring bank transactions following a jury verdict in July of 2022. Martinez was convicted together with her husband, Omar Colon, who was previously sentenced to 45 years' incarceration for money laundering and drug crimes. Colon was referred to in Court as one of the biggest cocaine traffickers in Delaware history.

March 13, 2024 ¡ª The former long-time Worth County, Georgia, Tax Commissioner has admitted to not reporting earnings from work she did for four cities on her tax return.

May 15, 2023 ¡ª U.S. District Judge Deborah L. Boardman sentenced Edward Scott Finn of Dunkirk, Maryland, today to 16 months in federal prison, followed by two years of supervised release, for a tax evasion charge. Finn is a former Lieutenant with the Prince George¡¯s County Police Department and owned and operated Edward Finn Inc. (EFI), a private company. Judge Boardman also ordered Finn to pay restitution in the full amount of the loss, $367,765.