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Nov. 5, 2024 ¡ª A Hialeah, Fla., man, Omar Thomas Wala and a North Miami, Fla., woman, Vienna Cavanaugh were sentenced on Tuesday, by U.S. District Judge Robert Wier, to 90 months and 26 months in prison, respectively, for conspiring with others to produce and sell counterfeit drugs.

Nov. 5, 2024 ¡ª Jason R. Coody, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced the sentences of three defendants who were convicted for their participation in a Ghana-based romance scam.

Nov. 5, 2024 ¡ª A Passaic County, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in a $3.5 million payroll tax evasion scheme, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

Nov. 5, 2024 ¡ª A Somerville tax preparer was convicted by a federal jury yesterday on charges that he prepared false tax returns in the names of taxpayers.

Nov. 5, 2024 ¡ª Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Robert Fuller, Harry T. Chavis, Jr., Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) in New England, and Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the FBI, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned a 23-count indictment charging Justin C. Murphy of Stamford, with offenses stemming from an alleged investment fraud scheme.

Nov. 5, 2024 ¡ª Joshua L. Wolfe of Givens, pleaded guilty today to two counts of failure to pay a tax and failure to file an income tax return.

Nov. 13, 2024 ¡ª A former IRS employee pleaded guilty in federal court today to preparing fraudulent tax returns that illegally claimed more than $200,000 in refunds for her clients.

Nov. 12, 2024 ¡ª An executive at a San Luis Obispo-based real estate development company was sentenced today to 60 months in federal prison for paying a local politician nearly $95,000 in bribes and gifts in exchange for official acts benefiting the company¡¯s development projects.

Nov. 12, 2024 ¡ª The shadow chief executive officer of National Realty Investment Advisors LLC (NRIA) was sentenced today to 144 months in prison for orchestrating a scheme to defraud more than 2,000 investors in a $658 million Ponzi scheme and conspiring to evade millions of dollars in tax liabilities, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

Nov. 12, 2024 ¡ª A Dallas real estate developer who bribed two city officials pleaded guilty today, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Leigha Simonton.