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Dec. 17, 2024 ¡ª United States Attorney Susan Lehr announced that Jack Olson, formerly of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was sentenced on December 17, 2024, in federal court in Lincoln, Nebraska, for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and tax evasion.

Feb. 21, 2025 ¡ª A Southwest Georgia resident with a prior federal conviction for tax fraud in Florida was found guilty by a federal jury seated in Albany of a fraudulent tax filing scheme.

Sept. 12, 2024 ¡ª An Ohio man was sentenced to over seven years in prison today for tax, money laundering and gambling crimes arising out of his ownership and operation of illegal gambling businesses and related misconduct.

IR-2022-32, February 14, 2022 ¡ª To help taxpayers and tax professionals, the Internal Revenue Service today announced a special new page on IRS.gov to provide the latest details and information affecting the 2022 filing season and ongoing efforts by the agency to address the inventory of previously filed tax returns.

August 25, 2023 ¡ª Kishore Kethineni, the CEO of multiple software development and IT services companies in the Bay Area, was sentenced to two years in prison for his role in a conspiracy to commit bank fraud and for his failure to pay over more than $2 million in employment taxes, announced United States Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey, Internal Revenue Service¡ªCriminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Special Agent in Charge Darren Lian of the Oakland Field Office, and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Robert K. Tripp.

IR-2021-245, December 8, 2021 ¡ª The IRS today reminded retirement plan participants and individual retirement account owners that payments, called required minimum distributions, must usually be taken by December 31.

Aug. 14, 2024 ¡ª Mycheal Arnell Brady, also known as ¡°Michael Brady,¡± has been indicted on federal charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, for stealing COVID-19 relief funds and submitting fraudulent federal tax refunds using the stolen identities of multiple individuals.

IR-2024-139, May 14, 2024 ¡ª The Internal Revenue Service issued a consumer alert today following ongoing concerns about a series of tax scams and inaccurate social media advice that led thousands of taxpayers to file inflated refund claims during the past tax season.

April 12, 2023 ¡ª Joseph Nubla and Henry Ku were convicted of conspiracy to defraud the United States, and Nubla was convicted of an additional charge of tax evasion, all in connection with a scheme to evade taxes on millions of dollars of income derived from a rock crushing business, announced United States Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Special Agent in Charge Darren Lian. The verdicts followed a two-week jury trial before the Hon. Richard Seeborg, Chief U.S. District Judge.

June 18, 2025 ¡ª MIAMI ¨C Eston ¡°Dusty¡± Melton III, a lobbyist operating in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach Counties, was sentenced on June 17, 2025, to 18 months in federal prison for evading the payment of over $2 million in federal income taxes.