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Dec. 5, 2024 ¡ª Two former top city officials in Commerce and Baldwin Park have pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme involving bribes in exchange for a corrupt Baldwin Park politician¡¯s votes and influence over his city¡¯s cannabis permitting process, the Justice Department announced today.

Jan. 8, 2025 ¡ª A Boerne woman was sentenced in a federal court in San Antonio to 36 months in prison for embezzling employee health insurance premiums and tax evasion.

Oct. 4, 2024 ¡ª A Georgetown couple was sentenced in federal court to a combined 32 years in federal prison for their roles in a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) fraud scheme.

July 23, 2024 ¡ª U.S. District Judge William F. Jung has sentenced Bamidele Omotosho of Nigeria, to 12 years and 7 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and computer intrusion. The court also ordered Omotosho to pay $2,051,108.70 in restitution to victims of his offenses. Omotosho entered a guilty plea on November 2, 2022.

December 5, 2023 ¡ª Today, Acting United States Attorney Jonathan S. Ross announced the sentencing of a former executive director for the Alabama Association for Career and Technical Education for embezzlement of federal funds and tax crimes. On December 1, 2023, a federal judge sentenced Doris Joann Gilmore a resident of Montgomery, Alabama, to 37 months in prison. In addition, the judge ordered that Gilmore serve three years of supervised release following her prison term. Federal inmates are not eligible for parole.

November 1, 2023 ¡ª A federal grand jury in Chicago has indicted the mayor of Riverdale, Ill. for allegedly lying under oath in a civil deposition and corruptly obstructing a lawsuit that claimed the mayor retaliated against a former city vendor.

KS-2024-09, Aug. 8, 2024 ¡ª As part of an expanding effort to reach underserved communities, the Internal Revenue Service announced a special event in Abilene, Kansas to help local taxpayers.

IR-2023-149, Aug. 17, 2023 ¡ª The Internal Revenue Service today encouraged all those who have registered, or are required to register, large trucks and buses with a taxable gross weight of 55,000 pounds or more to e-file Form 2290, Heavy Highway Vehicle Use Tax Return, by the Aug. 31, 2023, payment deadline for vehicles first used in July 2023.

Dec. 5, 2024 ¡ª On December 5, 2024, United States District Judge Thomas O. Rice sentenced William Oldham Mize to 144 months in federal prison in connection to a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme involving false and fabricated insurance claims. Judge Rice also imposed 3 years of supervised release and $6,657,209.00 in restitution to insurance companies and $436,399 in restitution to the IRS.

July 23, 2024 ¡ª Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Francius Marganda, an Indonesian national, pleaded guilty to securities fraud in connection with a $23 million Ponzi scheme that defrauded hundreds of predominantly Indonesian and Indo-American victim investors.