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May 23, 2025 ¡ª Four individuals were charged in an Information for their involvement in a $63 million scheme that involved stealing checks from the mail and selling them online, United States Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon, Jr. announced today.

IR-2023-134, July 25, 2023 ¡ª In the second installment in a special summer series, the Security Summit partners today reminded tax professionals and taxpayers about the IRS Identity Protection PIN Opt-In Program to help protect people against tax-related identity theft.

IR-2022-140, July 19, 2022 ¡ª The Security Summit partners today encouraged tax professionals to increase their efforts to inform clients about the IRS Identity Protection PIN Opt-In Program to help protect people against tax-related identity theft.

June 23, 2025 ¡ª A federal jury convicted Stephanie Hockridge, a founder of the lender service provider Blueacorn, on Friday in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain tens of millions of dollars in COVID-19 relief money guaranteed by the U. S. Small Business Administration (SBA) through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).

June 23, 2025 ¡ª Earl Lamont Taylor was sentenced to six years in prison Monday and will be ordered to pay over half a million dollars in restitution to the Small Business Administration. Taylor went to trial in November and ultimately pled guilty to one count each of bank fraud and wire fraud while the jury was deliberating. He received almost $300,000 in fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) COVID-19 loans.

March 25, 2024 ¡ª Commissioner Danny Werfel speaks about the future of the IRS at the Kogod School of Business.

Aug. 28, 2024 ¡ª Today, U.S. District Judge Gregory K. Frizzell sentenced Katrenia Hartman, of Sand Springs, for bank fraud and willfully making and subscribing a false federal income tax return.

June 11, 2024 ¡ª A Killeen man and his wife were sentenced in a federal court in Waco for defrauding a Department of the Army transportation program by using the illegally obtained personally identifiable information (PII) of more than 800 soldiers.

July 16, 2024 ¡ª An Eau Claire, Wisconsin, man has been convicted of wire fraud and attempting to commit wire fraud. Robert Carter was convicted following a two-day trial in federal court in Madison. The jury reached a verdict today after just over an hour of deliberation. The guilty verdict is announced by Timothy M. O¡¯Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin.

September 8, 2023 ¡ª Jeffrey James Morris of Wheeling, West Virginia, was charged today with wire fraud.