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November 1, 2023 ¡ª A federal jury in Baton Rouge found a Louisiana physician guilty yesterday of income tax evasion.

November 2, 2023 ¡ª United States Attorney Ronald C. Gathe, Jr., announced the conviction of Dr. Melissa Rose Barrett of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Clive, Iowa, with tax evasion. Barrett was indicted by a federal grand jury on September 8, 2022.

November 16, 2023 ¡ª On Sept. 19, a federal grand jury in Phoenix returned a 55-count indictment against Luis Ortega of Litchfield Park, and Jeremie Sowerby of Fountain Hills, for Wire Fraud and Transactional Money Laundering.

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.

July 13, 2022 ¡ª A Rome, New York couple and their adult son were sentenced today in federal court in Utica for tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud the United States, announced United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman, Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department¡¯s Tax Division, and Thomas Fattorusso, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Division, New York Field Office.

April 19, 2023 ¡ª A Sigourney man pleaded guilty on April 17, 2023, to mail fraud and conspiracy to defraud the United States.

March 23, 2023 ¡ª The former owner of a Savannah pizza franchise has been sentenced to federal prison and ordered to pay restitution for failing to remit more than $400,000 in payroll taxes.

November 10, 2022 ¡ª Vladimir Natera Abreu was sentenced to 15 years in prison for drug trafficking by United States District Court Judge Silvia Carre?o Coll.

December 2, 2022 ¡ª Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Joleen D. Simpson, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, today announced that Mark Carbutti, of Wallingford, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Sarala V. Nagala in Hartford to tax evasion.

May 21, 2025 ¡ª An Ohio man has been sentenced to 27 months in prison for submitting false information to be eligible to receive Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans. Daniel R. Hitlan, of Huron, Ohio, pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud and one count of money laundering in February.