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December 27, 2023 ¡ª A resident of Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 60 months of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release on her convictions for violating federal narcotics and firearms laws related to a nine-month Title III wiretap investigation into drug trafficking in and around the counties of Jefferson, Clearfield, and Allegheny, United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced today.

March 27, 2024 ¡ª A member of the Minneapolis Highs gang has pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon and to carrying a firearm while trafficking fentanyl, announced United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger.

May 21, 2024 ¡ª Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that Wilson Guzman, Jr. of Milford, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Sarala V. Nagala in Hartford to a fentanyl trafficking offense.

June 13, 2022 ¡ª The Internal Revenue Service announced the selection of Guy Ficco as the next Deputy Chief for IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI). He will oversee 20 field offices and 11 foreign posts, including approximately 2,000 special agents investigating tax fraud and other financial crimes.

IR-2022-126, June 13, 2022 ¡ª The Internal Revenue Service announced the selection of Guy Ficco as the next Deputy Chief for IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI). He will oversee 20 field offices and 11 foreign posts, including approximately 2,000 special agents investigating tax fraud and other financial crimes.

June 3, 2025 ¡ª A Dominican national illegally present in the United States who trafficked fentanyl, was found to be in possession of stolen personal identifying information of nearly a thousand individuals, and filed hundreds of fraudulent tax returns to obtain tens of thousands of dollars in COVID related tax credit payments has been sentenced to four years in federal prison, announced Acting United States Attorney Sara Miron Bloom.

June 28, 2024 ¡ª Teldrin Foster, John Gaines, and Carla Jackson have been sentenced for their roles in a scheme to steal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funds during the COVID-19 pandemic. To date, a total of 23 individuals have been convicted and sentenced in connection with the fraudulent scheme.

Feb. 9, 2024 ¡ª Special agents from IRS Criminal Investigation (CI) Houston Field Office will soon serve as mentors for select University of Houston-Downtown students in a first-of-its-kind agreement between CI and a university.

Feb. 28, 2025 ¡ª Jerry Baptiste, the last of 20 defendants charged in a wide-ranging criminal scheme to steal Paycheck Protection Program funds during the COVID-19 pandemic, has been sentenced for his role in the scheme.

June 5, 2024 ¡ª Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Thomas M. Fattorusso, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (¡°IRS-CI¡±), announced that George Sanossian and Jack N. Sardis pled guilty to conspiracy to defraud the IRS, on May 29 and June 5, 2024, respectively, in White Plains federal court. Sanossian¡¯s sentencing before U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel is scheduled for September 24, 2024. Sardis¡¯s sentencing before U.S. District Judge Nelson S. Rom¨¢n is scheduled for September 26, 2024.