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IR-2023-126, July 14, 2023 ¡ª Thanks to Inflation Reduction Act resources, the IRS delivered dramatically improved service in filing season 2023. IRS achieved an 87% level of service. Through the end of filing season, IRS answered 3 million more calls, cut phone wait times to three minutes from 28 minutes, served 140,000 more taxpayers in-person, digitized 80 times more returns than in 2022 through the adoption of new scanning technology, cleared the backlog of unprocessed 2022 individual tax returns with no errors, launched two new digital tools, and enabled a new direct-deposit refund option for taxpayers with amended returns.

Jan. 19, 2024 ¡ª Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Stuart M. Goldberg, the Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department¡¯s Tax Division; Thomas M. Fattorusso, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (¡°IRS-CI¡±); James Smith, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (¡°FBI¡±); and Jonathan Mellone, the Special Agent in Charge of the Northeast Regional Office of the U.S. Department of Labor ¨C Office of Inspector General (¡°DOL-OIG¡±), announced the arrests today of five defendants on fraud charges: Mark Angarola, Allison Angarola, Jose Garcia, Michelle Cox, and Lisa Mincak.

November 16, 2023 ¡ª Michael Brent Rothenberg, a former San Francisco venture capitalist once described in Bloomberg as ¡°Silicon Valley¡¯s Party Animal,¡± was convicted today of wire fraud, money laundering, bank fraud, and making false statements to a bank by a federal jury, announced Criminal Division Chief Thomas C. Colthurst, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Robert Tripp, and Acting Special Agent in Charge of Internal Revenue Service- Criminal Investigation Mark Silva. The guilty verdicts followed a seven-week jury trial before the Hon. Jon S. Tigar, U.S. District Judge. All told, the evidence introduced at trial established that Rothenberg¡¯s schemes resulted in approximately $18.8 million in missing money.

May 18, 2023 ¡ª W. Stephen Muldrow, U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, announced the indictment of 44 individuals for their participation in a multi-million-dollar fraudulent scheme to illegally obtain federal recovery funds under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The Grand Jury charged the defendants with multiple counts of wire fraud and money laundering. The charging documents allege that from April 2020 through May 2023, the defendants and their co-conspirators caused the submission of at least 52 Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan applications seeking the illegal disbursement of at least $1,237,855 in federal recovery funds from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and Bank 1.

January 17, 2024 ¡ª IRS Criminal Investigation (CI) released investigative statistics on LinkedIn Friday detailing how the agency uses Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) data in its financial crime investigations. The primary subject in nearly 88% of investigations opened by CI during fiscal year 2023 (FY23) had a BSA filing. From FY21 to FY23, BSA data was instrumental in securing average prison sentences of 39 months and seizing $7.4 billion in assets tied to criminal investigations. BSA data during this same timeframe also resulted in restitution orders totaling $434 million and forfeited assets totaling $629 million, nearly double and triple the amounts, respectively, from FY20 to FY22.

Nov. 7, 2024 ¡ª On October 18, 2024, A federal grand jury for the Eastern District of Washington returned an indictment charging John Wesley Owens, of Manson, Washington; Joshua Wesley Owens, of Mapleton, Utah; their companies Diesel Truck Products, Inc. d/b/ DPF Delete Shop Inc., and Fulfillment Solutions & More, LLC; Kevin Paul Dodd, of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada; his companies Evolution Auto Performance and Evo Tunes Inc.; and Philip John Sweeney, of Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada; and his company KX Wheels, for a scheme to smuggle and illegally import tens of millions of dollars in contraband emissions defeat devices from Canada into the United States and to sell and distribute them throughout the United States, in violation of the Clean Air Act.

May 10, 2023 ¡ª The U.S. Attorney¡¯s Office has filed two informations charging six defendants with a variety of crimes in connection with an alleged scheme to obtain millions of dollars by submitting fraudulent loan applications through the U.S. government¡¯s Payroll Protection Program (PPP), announced U.S. Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey, Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Darren Lian, Small Business Administration Office of Inspector General, Western Region Special Agent in Charge Weston King, and Office of Inspector General for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Acting Western Region Special Agent in Charge Cory Nootnagel. All six defendants are scheduled to make their initial federal court appearances next week before U.S. Magistrate Judge Kandis Westmore.

March 30, 2023 ¡ª Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Stuart M. Goldberg, Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department¡¯s Tax Division, and James C. Lee, Chief of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (¡°IRS-CI¡±), announced that Daniel W?lchli pled guilty today to conspiring to defraud the United States in connection with a scheme to help wealthy American clients conceal more than $60 million in income and assets held in undeclared offshore bank accounts and evade U.S. income taxes. W?lchli was a member of the executive board of a Swiss holding company that owned, among other entities, a Zurich-based private bank called Privatbank IHAG Zurich AG (¡°IHAG¡±). W?lchli pled guilty earlier today before U.S. District Judge Gregory H. Woods.

May 17, 2024 ¡ª Six defendants, including a former IRS revenue officer and his brother, have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from 12 to 30 months following their convictions on charges that they fraudulently obtained millions of dollars in COVID-19 pandemic relief funds through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), announced United States Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey; IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Acting Special Agent in Charge Michael Mosley of the Oakland Field Office; Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) Special Agent in Charge Weston King of the Western Region; and Office of Inspector General for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Special Agent in Charge Jon Ellwanger of the Western Region. The sentences were handed down by the Hon. Araceli Mart¨ªnez-Olgu¨ªn, United States District Judge.

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