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Press releases published by Criminal Investigation in July 2022.

Nov. 7, 2023 ¡ª Commissioner Danny Werfel speaks during Secretary Yellen¡¯s visit to IRS headquarters.

IR-2022-125, June 10, 2022 ¡ª The Internal Revenue Service today wrapped up its annual "Dirty Dozen" scams list for the 2022 filing season, with a warning to taxpayers to avoid being misled into using bogus tax avoidance strategies.

Sept. 25, 2024 ¡ª A Prineville, Oregon woman was sentenced to federal prison yesterday for using stolen identities to submit fraudulent health care claims resulting in over $1.5 million in misappropriated funds from the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) Medicaid Program and filing false tax returns that failed to report earnings she received.

Aug. 5, 2024 ¡ª Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that on Friday, August 2, 2024, a jury found Arie Rangott guilty of conspiring to defraud the federal Head Start program, to submit a false document to the federal government, and to obstruct a federal administrative proceeding. Rangott was found guilty following a two-week trial before U.S. District Judge Jennifer H. Rearden and is scheduled to be sentenced on December 10, 2024.

July 16, 2024 ¡ª Press release's first paragraph

July 25, 2024 ¡ª Two Illinois men ¨C Erik Richard Jones and Mitchell Allen Melega were sentenced on July 23, 2024, to multi-year prison sentences following their convictions for conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering. Jones, of Colona, Illinois, was sentenced to 54 months of imprisonment to be followed by five years of supervised release, and Melega, formerly of Orion, Illinois, was sentenced to 75 months of imprisonment to be followed by five years of supervised release. Both defendants were also ordered to pay $4,840,944.63 in restitution.

August 1, 2023 ¡ª Two Orange County residents have been charged by a federal grand jury with fraudulently obtaining more than $2 million by stealing the identities of homeowners ¨C primarily elderly Vietnamese Americans ¨C and duping banks into ¡°cashing out¡± mortgages on those properties, the Justice Department announced today.

September 12, 2023 ¡ª A Kansas City, Mo., day care owner has pleaded guilty in federal court to her role in a conspiracy that resulted in a $653,329 tax loss to the federal government, as well as fraudulently collecting almost $120,000 in government benefits she was not entitled to receive.

March 17, 2025 ¡ª Marcie Jean Doty of Evansville, has been sentenced to five years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, after pleading guilty to wire fraud, failure to file tax returns, and filing false tax returns. Doty has also been ordered to pay $2,517,343.05 in restitution.