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May 24, 2022 ¡ª Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Ruless Pierre was sentenced to 84 months in prison yesterday in connection with his Ponzi-like securities fraud schemes that primarily targeted Pierre¡¯s own Haitian community in Rockland County, New York. Pierre was convicted of securities fraud, wire fraud, and structuring offenses after a jury trial in May 2021 before U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein, who imposed the sentence.

November 10, 2023 ¡ª A 16-count indictment and 16-count superseding indictment were unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn charging Indonesian national Francius Marganda with securities fraud, wire fraud, money laundering and related conspiracy counts for running a Ponzi scheme from May 2019 to May 2021 that targeted hundreds of victim investors residing in more than 12 states including New York and in Indonesia. Marganda was extradited to the Eastern District of New York from Signapore yesterday and will be arraigned on November 13, 2023 before United States Chief Magistrate Judge Lois Bloom.

November 30, 2022 ¡ª Announcement of the unsealing of a Complaint charging Rodney Smith, Denise Gant, Ebony Simon, Phya Scott, Priscilla Jackson, Sharon Charles, Yolanda Lawrence, Yolanda Ratcliff, and Zhane RatclIff with conspiring to commit wire fraud by submitting fraudulent SBA loan applications, as well as Complaints charging Brandon Boyle, Delilah Cummings, Vashawn Foreman, Trevor Gordon, Dione Hall, Toni Mccullough, Jarod Ottley, Ronette Short, Edwin Skepple, and Walter Susswell individually with wire fraud for submitting fraudulent loans under the SBA's Economic Injury Disaster Loan ("EIDL") program and/or its Paycheck Protection Program ("PPP").

May 5, 2025 ¡ª Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to public corruption charges after receiving a $7,000 kickback from a staff member¡¯s city funded bonus.

IR-2024-56, Feb. 29, 2024 ¡ª In the continuing effort to improve tax compliance and ensure fairness, the Internal Revenue Service announced a new effort today focused on high-income taxpayers who have failed to file federal income tax returns in more than 125,000 instances since 2017.

Oct. 15, 2024 ¡ª The owner of several New Jersey masonry construction companies pleaded guilty to willfully evading taxes, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.

Oct. 18, 2024 ¡ª U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Barber has sentenced Linda Davis to four years in federal prison for willfully failing to pay to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employment taxes that were withheld from employees¡¯ paychecks. Davis was also ordered to pay $719,049.62 in restitution. Davis entered a guilty plea on November 9, 2023.

Aug. 21, 2024 ¡ª A restitution hearing has been scheduled for former Roswell Escrow Services, Inc. owner Christopher Adam Jensen-Tanner.

March 4, 2025 ¡ª A Wake County woman who engaged as a money mule or ¡°middleman¡± to defraud multiple victims in an international romance fraud scheme was sentenced today to 24 months, 3 years supervised release, and ordered to pay $109,119 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service. Michon Griffin pled guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering and making false statements on her individual income tax return Form 1040 on July 10, 2024.

July 6, 2022 ¡ª United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero and Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department¡¯s Tax Division announced that Wayne Garvin currently of Columbia, South Carolina, and a former IRS employee, was sentenced to 13 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $74,662 restitution for filing false tax returns and providing fabricated records to the IRS in an attempt to obstruct an audit of those returns.