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IR-2023-169, Sept. 14, 2023 ¡ª Amid rising concerns about a flood of improper Employee Retention Credit claims, the Internal Revenue Service today announced an immediate moratorium through at least the end of the year on processing new claims for the pandemic-era relief program to protect honest small business owners from scams.

April 3, 2025 ¡ª Earlier today, at a federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Francius Marganda was sentenced by United States District Judge Dora L. Irizarry to 18 years¡¯ imprisonment for running a $24.5 million Ponzi scheme that defrauded hundreds of predominantly Indonesian and Indo-American victim investors

April 11, 2025 ¨D The former longtime head of the accounting department at the now-shuttered downtown Los Angeles plaintiffs¡¯ personal injury law firm Girardi Keese was sentenced today to 121 months in federal prison for enabling the embezzlement of millions of dollars from the firm¡¯s injured clients and for embezzling money from the law firm itself.

October 4, 2022 ¡ª A Bay Area man and former FBI special agent was found guilty today by a federal jury of conspiring to accept at least $150,000 in cash bribes and other items of value in exchange for providing sensitive law enforcement information to a corrupt lawyer with ties to Armenian organized crime.

IR-2021-238, December 1, 2021 ¡ª As part of a wider effort to increase security, the Internal Revenue Service today reminded taxpayers they can get extra protection starting in January by joining the agency¡¯s Identity Protection Personal Identification Number (IP PIN) program.

IR-2024-300, Dec. 2, 2024 ¡ª On Cyber Monday, the Internal Revenue Service and its Security Summit partners warned taxpayers to approach their holiday shopping with extra caution because scammers are also shopping ¨C for their next victim¡¯s personal information.

IR-2023-193, Oct. 19, 2023 ¡ª As part of a larger effort to protect small businesses and organizations from scams, the IRS today announced the details of a special withdrawal process to help those who filed an Employee Retention Credit (ERC) claim and are concerned about its accuracy.

IR-2023-16, January 27, 2023 ¡ª The Internal Revenue Service and partners nationwide today kicked off their Earned Income Tax Credit Awareness Day outreach campaign to help millions of Americans who earned $59,187 or less last year take advantage of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC).

IR-2024-98, April 8, 2024 ¡ª On day eight of the Dirty Dozen tax scam series, the Internal Revenue Service today warned about bad tax information on social media that can lure honest taxpayers with bad advice, potentially leading to identity theft and tax problems.

April 29, 2025 ¡ª A California man pleaded guilty today to operating an illegal gambling business, tax evasion, and money laundering.