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May 28, 2025 ¡ª The chief financial officer (CFO) at a downtown Los Angeles-based shipping company has been arrested on a 22-count federal grand jury indictment charging him and the company¡¯s CEO with using fraudulent documents, shell companies, bribes to public officials, and kickbacks to Mexican drug cartels to smuggle billions of dollars¡¯ worth of goods from the United States into Mexico, repeatedly lying to U.S. customs officials and defrauding Mexico out of hundreds of millions of dollars¡¯ worth of duties owed, the Justice Department announced today.

IR-2024-214, Aug. 15, 2024 ¡ª The Internal Revenue Service reminds those who operate large trucks and buses that the deadline for filing Form 2290, Heavy Highway Vehicle Use Tax Return, is Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024, for vehicles used in July 2024. The usual Aug. 31 deadline is delayed until the next business day because it falls on a Saturday this year.

May 28, 2025 ¡ª On May 14, 2025, U.S. District Judge Michael E. Farbiarz entered a final judgment forfeiting to the United States approximately $7 million in fraud and money laundering proceeds, as well as a real property purchased with laundered fraud proceeds that has an estimated market value of nearly $2 million, United States Attorney Alina Habba announced.

May 29, 2025 ¡ª U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo announced today that Joseph Giannini, of Chicago, IL, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

May 28, 2025 ¡ª A Mexican citizen who previously resided in Kent, Washington was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to ten years in prison for drug trafficking, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Teal Luthy Miller.

May 23, 2025 ¡ª Four individuals were charged in an Information for their involvement in a $63 million scheme that involved stealing checks from the mail and selling them online, United States Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon, Jr. announced today.

May 23, 2025 ¡ª Three individuals were sentenced yesterday for their participation in a scheme to defraud the Georgia Department of Labor (GaDOL), out of tens of millions of dollars in benefits meant to assist unemployed individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic.

May 23, 2025 ¡ª A Hawaii woman pleaded guilty yesterday to defrauding her mortgage lender and conspiring to defraud the IRS by fraudulently obtaining a tax refund and then thwarting the IRS¡¯ efforts to recoup it.

May 23, 2025 ¡ª Kimberly Lovitt, of Pace, Florida, and Amy Williams, of Milton, Florida, were sentenced to 36 months and 18 months, respectively, in federal prison on charges of wire fraud, money laundering, and filing false tax returns stemming from their embezzlement of funds from their employer. Michelle Spaven, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced the sentences.

May 27, 2025 ¡ª A man who operated a ¡°ghost¡± tax preparation business in Augusta, Georgia awaits sentencing after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud.