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March 3, 2025 ¡ª Two Columbus men were sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 25 years and 23 years in prison for drug crimes, sex trafficking crimes and their roles in the deaths of a local man and woman.

June 23, 2025 ¡ª Earl Lamont Taylor was sentenced to six years in prison Monday and will be ordered to pay over half a million dollars in restitution to the Small Business Administration. Taylor went to trial in November and ultimately pled guilty to one count each of bank fraud and wire fraud while the jury was deliberating. He received almost $300,000 in fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) COVID-19 loans.

June 30, 2022 ¡ª A Passaic County, New Jersey, man who was employed as a certified public accountant in northern New Jersey today admitted failing to disclose income on his tax returns, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

June 1, 2022 ¡ª A federal grand jury in Central Islip, New York, returned an indictment last week charging a New York businessman with filing false business and individual tax returns with the IRS.

The new law repealed section 847 for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017. Under section 847, an insurance company that was required to discount its reserves could elect to take an additional deduction equal to the difference between the amount of unpaid loss reserves computed on a discounted basis and the amount computed on an undiscounted basis.

Nov. 26, 2024 ¡ª Madinah Malikah Montgomery of Oklahoma City, has been sentenced to serve 24 months in federal prison for wire fraud and ordered to pay $300,000 in restitution to the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.

November 17, 2023 ¡ª A federal jury convicted three Texas men yesterday for a $145 million scheme to defraud the Department of Labor through the submission of fraudulent claims for prescription compound creams.

December 11, 2023 ¡ª A Sherman Oaks man who ran the San Fernando Valley-based Vineland Boys street gang was sentenced today to 192 months in federal prison for committing federal racketeering and narcotics crimes.

December 13, 2023 ¡ª The former operator of two municipal golf courses in Western Massachusetts has been convicted by a federal jury in Springfield of conspiring to defraud the United States and making a false statement.

December 15, 2023 ¡ª The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Colorado announces that Chandler Simbeck was sentenced to 37 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to defraud the United States. He was also ordered to pay $151,000 in restitution.