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April 16, 2024 ¡ª A senior administrator for both the Village of Dolton, Ill., and Thornton Township, Ill., has been charged in federal court with engaging in a bankruptcy fraud scheme involving the making of false statements in his bankruptcy petition to conceal from creditors his assets and sources of income and a significant claim against him.

October 3, 2023 ¡ª A former housekeeping manager at a large Key West hotel, Nataliya Vasylivna Kasyanenko, was sentenced on Sept. 29, to eight months in prison for conspiring to defraud the United States and conspiring to harbor aliens and induce them to remain in the United States for her role in a tax and immigration conspiracy related to the operation of a labor staffing business, Phoenix ADB Services, Inc. (¡°Phoenix ADB¡±).

October 27, 2023 ¡ª Two Mexican nationals and their unlicensed money transmitting business admitted in federal court today that they illegally helped foreign gamblers move money stealthily through the U.S. financial system to avoid scrutiny by U.S. and foreign law enforcement and regulators.

November 9, 2023 ¡ª A federal jury today convicted Marilyn J. Mosby of Baltimore, Maryland, on federal charges of perjury, relating to the withdrawal of funds from the City of Baltimore¡¯s Deferred Compensation Plan claiming that she suffered adverse financial consequences during the COVID-19 pandemic when she was Baltimore City State¡¯s Attorney.

May 16, 2024 ¡ª A Carlisle man has been arrested and charged for allegedly submitting fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan applications on behalf of multiple companies he owns and controls.

May 21, 2024 ¡ª A flight attendant and two bank employees in Indiana have been charged in a federal indictment that accuses a Mexico-based drug trafficking organization of moving thousands of kilograms of cocaine into the United States and laundering tens of millions of dollars in proceeds.

May 30, 2024 ¡ª A Texas man pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, and a Texas women pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud both in connection with a wide-ranging scheme to defraud the IRS. In all, seven defendants have now pleaded guilty to this scheme that sought over $111 million in fraudulent tax refunds.

April 14, 2023 ¡ª Federal grand juries in Providence and Boston returned separate indictments charging seven commercial fishermen with tax evasion and failing to file returns.

April 14, 2023 ¡ª Federal grand juries in Providence, Rhode Island, and Boston returned separate indictments charging seven commercial fishermen with tax evasion and failing to file returns.

May 2, 2023 ¡ª The owner of ¡®Simply Thai¡¯ restaurant in Tukwila, Washington, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 18 months in prison for willful failure to pay over taxes, announced U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. Keovilayvanh Rinthalukay pleaded guilty in February 2023, admitting that between 2015 and 2019 he withheld Medicare, Social Security, and federal income taxes from his employees¡¯ paychecks, but instead of paying the taxes to the government, he pocketed the money for his own benefit.