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May 17, 2024 ¡ª The former owner of a now-defunct luxury home building business in West Springfield pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiring to defraud the United States and creating false documents to help one of his clients obtain a mortgage.

May 30, 2024 ¡ª A Jersey City attorney was sentenced today to 66 months in prison for defrauding his clients of more than $2 million dollars and other crimes, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

July 20, 2022 ¡ª A Georgia woman was sentenced to 51 months in prison today for conspiring to defraud the United States by promoting a nationwide tax fraud scheme involving more than 200 participants in at least 19 states.

October 13, 2022 ¡ª A Beverly Farms man was charged today in a 13-count indictment in connection with a payroll scheme involving underreporting of overtime hours for his union employees and failing to collect and pay payroll taxes.

April 26, 2023 ¡ª A former Arkansas state senator was sentenced yesterday to four years and two months in prison in the Western District of Missouri for accepting multiple bribes in connection with a multi-district investigation spanning the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas and the Western District of Missouri.

March 8, 2023 ¡ª United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Bill Omar Carrasquillo of Swedesboro, NJ, was sentenced to 66 months¡¯ imprisonment, five years of supervised release, more than $30 million in forfeiture, and more than $15 million in restitution by United States District Court Judge Harvey Bartle III, for crimes arising from a wide-ranging copyright infringement scheme that involved piracy of cable TV, access device fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, and hundreds of thousands of dollars of copyright infringement.

January 5, 2023 ¡ª A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Aurelien Michel, a French national residing in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), with defrauding purchasers of ¡°Mutant Ape Planet¡± NFTs, a type of digital asset, of more than $2.9 million in cryptocurrency. The defendant was arrested last night at John F. Kennedy International Airport. His initial appearance is scheduled for this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge James R. Cho.

February 21, 2023 ¡ª A federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned a seven-count indictment charging 20 men and four women with trafficking cocaine in the District of Puerto Rico, beginning in 2017. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) oversees the investigation, with the collaboration of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Puerto Rico Police Bureau (PRPB), Ponce Municipal Police, and the Puerto Rico Department of Treasury. The United States Marshals Service also collaborated during the arrests.

IR-2024-115, April 18, 2024 ¡ª The Internal Revenue Service today issued its annual Data Book detailing the agency¡¯s activities during fiscal year 2023 (Oct. 1, 2022 ¨C Sept. 30, 2023), including revenue collected and tax returns processed.

IR-2023-203, Nov. 1, 2023 ¡ª The Internal Revenue Service announced today that the amount individuals can contribute to their 401(k) plans in 2024 has increased to $23,000, up from $22,500 for 2023.