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Nov. 19, 2024 ¡ª A Wheeling, West Virginia, physician was convicted today of failing to pay nearly $2.5 million in payroll taxes, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.

Nov. 19, 2024 ¡ª A Riverside County man who helped lead an organization that trafficked pound quantities of methamphetamine from Mexico into the Inland Empire has been sentenced to 180 months in federal prison, the Justice Department announced today.

Nov. 19, 2024 ¡ª Jason Toland of Wheatland, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd to two years and 11 months in prison for submitting false claims against the United States related to COVID-19 pandemic tax credits, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. Toland was also ordered to pay $2,078,462 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Small Business Administration (SBA).

Nov. 19, 2024 ¡ª United States District Judge Sheri P. Chappell has sentenced Heidi Torres-Moncaleano of Naples to one year and one day in federal prison for aiding in the preparation of numerous false and fraudulent income tax returns. Torres-Moncaleano was also sentenced to a one-year term of supervised release with a condition that she pay restitution to the IRS in the amount of $429,888. Torres-Moncaleano entered a guilty plea on April 17, 2024.

Nov. 19, 2024 ¡ª A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 34 years of imprisonment, to be followed by lifetime supervised release, on his convictions of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and acetyl fentanyl and conspiracy to commit money laundering, United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced today.

Nov. 20, 2024 ¡ª Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Danny D. Beeman of Beverly Hills, Florida, and a former resident of Connecticut, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in New Haven to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for tax evasion.

Nov. 20, 2024 ¡ª A federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida returned a superseding indictment yesterday charging nine individuals for conspiring to launder U.S. currency into cryptocurrency on behalf of drug cartels in Mexico and Colombia and for the operation of an unlicensed money transmitting business.

Nov. 20, 2024 ¡ª A Midlothian man was sentenced today to six years in prison for mail fraud, federal program theft, and tax evasion in connection with a scheme to misappropriate millions of dollars from the Virginia Department of Health (VDH).

Nov. 20, 2024 ¡ª Two Florida men were sentenced today for their involvement in the ¡°Note Program,¡± a tax fraud scheme. Jasen Harvey, of Tampa, was sentenced to 48 months in prison and Christopher Johnson, of Orlando, was sentenced to 37 months in prison for conspiring to defraud the United States.

Nov. 20, 2024 ¡ª U.S. Attorney Michael F. Easley, Jr., announced efforts to combat transnational money laundering, including the creation of the Eastern District of North Carolina¡¯s Illicit Finance Task Force (IFTF).