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December 2, 2022 ¡ª Bradley Glaspell, of Salem, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 120 months of incarceration for defrauding over 70 customers out of more than a half a million dollars through his contracting businesses, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.

December 8, 2022 ¡ª A family curse, fortune telling, and swindling a victim out of more than $3 million lands orchestrators in prison.

December 20, 2022 ¡ª Senior United States District Judge John Antoon II has sentenced David O. Isagba to 14 years in federal prison for mail fraud and conspiring to defraud the United States with respect to tax claims. This sentence was imposed consecutively to Isagba's 2022 conviction for possession of child pornography from the Eastern District of New York.

June 26, 2024 ¡ª United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Brian Burrows of Mount Laurel, NJ, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Jeffrey L. Schmehl to 48 months¡¯ imprisonment, three years of supervised release, forfeiture of $135,689.11, an $1,800 special assessment, and restitution to be determined later, for crimes arising from his embezzlement of funds belonging to Local 98 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (Local 98).

June 23, 2023 ¡ª Seven defendants were sentenced to federal prison for their involvement in a scheme to defraud the U.S. Department of Agriculture out of more than $11.5 million that was intended to benefit farmers who had been discriminated against. Chief United States District Judge D.P. Marshall, Jr. sentenced the defendants earlier today.

May 16, 2024 ¡ª Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Harry T. Chavis, Jr., Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, and Robert Fuller, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the FBI, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned a 22-count indictment charging Konstantinos "Kosta" Diamantis, of Farmington, with extortion, bribery, conspiracy, and false statement offenses related to his conduct as director of Connecticut¡¯s Office of School Constructions Grants and Review (¡°OSCGR¡±), the state agency responsible for the grant administration of all Connecticut public school construction projects seeking state funding.

June 2, 2022 ¡ª The ringleader of a massive and lengthy scheme to drain the Muscogee County Clerk of Courts' coffers of millions of dollars was sentenced to prison for his crime today, along with five co-defendants.

June 23, 2022 ¡ª Chief U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger sentenced Lindsey Allison Kerns, of Mars Hill, N.C., to 45 months in prison today, for stealing more than $1 million from two elderly clients in her care, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. In addition to the prison term imposed, Judge Reidinger ordered Kerns to serve three years under court supervision and to pay $1,088,554.99 as restitution.

IR-2024-296, Nov. 21, 2024 ¡ª With a Nov. 22 deadline rapidly approaching for the second Voluntary Disclosure Program, the Internal Revenue Service urgently recommends that businesses review Employee Retention Credit guidelines and resolve incorrect claims soon to avoid future issues.

IR-2023-230, Dec. 6, 2023 ¡ª As part of continuing efforts to combat dubious Employee Retention Credit (ERC) claims, the Internal Revenue Service is sending an initial round of more than 20,000 letters to taxpayers notifying them of disallowed ERC claims.