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IR-2024-267, Oct. 11, 2024 ¡ª The Internal Revenue Service announced today in Revenue Procedure 2024-39 that grants certain applicable entities that are making an elective payment election a six-month automatic extension of time to file an original or superseding Form 990-T, Exempt Organization Business Income Tax Return, with relevant schedules and forms.

IR-2023-237, Dec. 13, 2023 ¡ª Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Danny Werfel today announced plans for a new leadership structure at the agency, a step designed to reflect new transformation goals and update the top of the organization chart for the first time in two decades.

July 11, 2024 ¡ª Eight men from Maine and one from New Hampshire ¨C comprised of the owner, captains, and crew members of a commercial fishing vessel, the Western Sea, and owners of local Maine fisheries ¨C have been sentenced for knowingly subverting commercial fishing reporting requirements. The final six sentences in the complex case were handed down this week by U.S. District Judge Jon D. Levy in U.S. District Court in Portland.

Aug. 28, 2024 ¡ª Vanessa R. Waldref, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Marisa Beck, of Spokane, was sentenced for fraudulently obtaining more than $360,000 in COVID-19 relief funding intended for endangered small businesses and employees at risk of losing their jobs.

July 18, 2023 ¡ª James P. Dawson of Orlando, Florida pleaded guilty to wire fraud and making a false statement within the jurisdiction of an agency of the United States related to five coronavirus relief Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Loans and four Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL).

July 14, 2022 ¡ª U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Barber has sentenced Amber Rewis Bruey (Lehigh Acres) to four years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and illegal monetary transactions. Her husband and co-conspirator, Anthony James Bruey, was sentenced to four years and three months in federal prison for the same offenses. Mr. and Ms. Bruey had pleaded guilty on February 4, 2022, and March 16, 2022, respectively.

July 28, 2022 ¡ª As the United Nations commemorates World Day Against Trafficking in Persons July 30, a team of U.S. federal investigators from IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) are in Frankfurt, Germany, this week to train their German law enforcement counterparts on the latest investigative techniques to combat human trafficking.

IR-2024-210, Aug. 14, 2024 ¡ª The Internal Revenue Service strongly urges qualifying businesses, tax-exempt organizations, and state, local and Indian tribal governments to complete the pre-filing registration process now for projects placed in service in 2023 if they plan to claim elective pay.

May 23, 2024 ¡ª A member of the Rollin¡¯ 60s Neighborhood Crips gang was sentenced today to 178 months in prison for his role in a racketeering conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

June 26, 2024 ¡ª Victor Hernandez, the leader of a conspiracy to sell cocaine and counterfeit pills over the dark web and launder the proceeds through cryptocurrency, was sentenced today to 130 months in federal prison, United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison announced.