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December 22, 2022 ¡ª Craig Goldstein, of Boca Raton, Florida, former owner of a Lauderdale Lakes towing company, was sentenced to 15 months in prison after having pled guilty previously to three counts of tax evasion for underreporting income and failing to pay federal tax on money he received through a Personal Injury Protection (PIP) kickback scheme and other cash-based fraud.

Dec. 16, 2024 ¡ª Sedita Charles Cayson of Panacea, Florida, was found guilty by a federal judge of five counts of willfully failing to file his income tax returns during a five-year period, spanning tax years 2017-2021. The guilty verdict returned at the conclusion of a day-and-a-half bench trial, was announced by Jason R. Coody, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.

June 15, 2022 ¡ª United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Samuel Bullock, of Langhorne, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison, one year of supervised release, and ordered to pay $3,501,261 restitution by United States District Court Judge Michael M. Baylson for his orchestration of a tax fraud scheme to avoid paying nearly $1.3 million in federal income taxes, and millions more in interest and penalties.

July 17, 2023 ¡ª Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Joleen D. Simpson, Special Agent in Charge of Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (CI) in New England, announced that Boulos Hanna, also known as ¡°Paul Hanna,¡± of East Lyme, waved his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Omar A. Williams in Hartford to tax evasion.

March 6, 2024 ¡ª Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Boulos Hanna, also known as ¡°Paul Hanna,¡± of East Lyme, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Omar A. Williams in Hartford to 10 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for tax evasion. Judge Williams also ordered Hanna to pay a $25,000 fine in addition to his restitution obligation.

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.

January 13, 2022 ¡ª A federal grand jury today returned an indictment charging Marilyn J. Mosby, of Baltimore, Maryland, on federal charges of perjury and making false mortgage applications, relating to the purchases of two vacation homes in Florida.

June 10, 2025 ¡ª An Alabama chiropractor pleaded guilty yesterday to charges of tax evasion and interfering with the administration of the internal revenue laws. Gary Forrest Edwards, of Maylene, Alabama, pleaded guilty during his trial in Birmingham after the United States presented two witnesses and several exhibits.

May 10, 2024 ¡ª Andrew A. Wiederhorn, the former CEO and current controlling shareholder of the publicly traded Fat Brands Inc. (FAT), has been indicted on federal charges alleging a scheme to conceal $47 million in distributions he received in the form of shareholder loans from the IRS, FAT¡¯s minority shareholders, and the broader investing public, the Justice Department announced today.

March 21, 2023 ¡ª Michael Sturms, of Bluffton, was sentenced to five years of probation and ordered to pay restitution to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) after pleading guilty to tax evasion.