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March 14, 2024 ¡ª Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, and Carissa Messick, Acting Special Agent in Charge, IRS Criminal Investigation Phoenix Field Office, announced today that Victor Kearney was sentenced to 27 months in prison and ordered to pay $1,188,645.00 in restitution. A federal jury convicted Kearney, of Zephyr Cove, Nevada, for filing false tax returns on March 10, 2023.

April 26, 2024 ¡ª Domenick Nardone appeared in federal court in Oakland this week to face conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering, and related charges for his alleged role in a kickback scheme that defrauded Williams Sonoma, Inc. (WSI) of millions of dollars, announced United States Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey and IRS Criminal Investigation (CI) Acting Special Agent in Charge Michael Mosley of the Oakland Field Office.

May 7, 2024 ¡ª Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Stephen Belleau, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, and New Haven Police Chief Karl Jacobson today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned an indictment charging Levern Marion of West Haven, with possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine and a quantity of fentanyl.

April 25, 2023 ¡ª Roger Chi Quan, pleaded guilty to crimes related to a scheme to underreport his 2017 business income by over $4 million, announced United States Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey and Kareem Carter, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the IRS - Criminal Investigation Washington D.C. Field Office. The guilty plea was accepted by the Honorable Edward J. Davila, United States District Court.

Jan. 23, 2025 ¡ª An India- and New Jersey-based man who operated jewelry companies in New York City¡¯s Diamond District was sentenced to 30 months incarceration for spearheading a scheme to illegally evade customs duties for more than $13.5 million of jewelry imports into the United States and for illegally processing more than $10.3 million through an unlicensed money transmitting business, Acting U.S. Attorney Vikas Khanna announced.

March 5, 2025 ¡ª A clinical social worker nicknamed by her co-workers as the ¡°Five Minute Queen¡± who, at times, substituted a one or two sentence conversation for a billed 45-minute therapy session for her addicted patients has been sentenced to three years of supervised release, the first three months to be served in home detention with electronic monitoring, announced Acting United States Attorney Sara Miron Bloom.

September 9, 2022 ¡ª The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that James J. Peperno, Jr., of Old Forge, Pennsylvania, was convicted following a jury trial, of conspiracy, federal program bribery, honest services wire fraud, Travel Act, false statement, and perjury offenses. The nine-day trial was held before United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion in Scranton.

December 7, 2022 ¡ª Acting United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that Frederick Voight, of Richmond, Texas, was sentenced today in Lincoln, Nebraska, by United States District Judge John M. Gerrard for mail fraud. Voight was sentenced to 66 months in prison and will also serve 3 years on supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system. Voight was also ordered to pay restitution to the victims in the case in the amount of $40,903,052.09.

May 8, 2024 ¡ª Salman Salman pleaded guilty today to one count of tax evasion in violation of 26 U.S.C. ¡ì 7201. The plea was accepted by the Honorable Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr., United States District Judge. The announcement was made by United States Attorney for the Northern District of California Ismail J. Ramsey and IRS Criminal Investigation (CI) Acting Special Agent in Charge Michael Mosley of the Oakland Field Office.

June 3, 2025 ¡ª A Dominican national illegally present in the United States who trafficked fentanyl, was found to be in possession of stolen personal identifying information of nearly a thousand individuals, and filed hundreds of fraudulent tax returns to obtain tens of thousands of dollars in COVID related tax credit payments has been sentenced to four years in federal prison, announced Acting United States Attorney Sara Miron Bloom.