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A federal grand jury has returned a 43-count indictment charging a music label owner and purported anti-gang activist who is a long-time leader of a South Los Angeles street gang with dozens of felonies, including fraud, robbery, extortion, tax evasion, embezzlement of donations to his charity that receives public money, and running a racketeering conspiracy in which he allegedly murdered an aspiring musician, the Justice Department announced today.

June 24, 2025 ¡ª Elizabeth Gutfahr, of Rio Rico, Arizona, was sentenced on June 23, 2025, by United States District Judge Rosemary C. M¨¢rquez to 120 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Gutfahr previously pleaded guilty to Embezzlement by a Public Official, Money Laundering, and Tax Evasion. Gutfahr was also ordered to pay approximately $51.8 million in restitution to Santa Cruz County and the United States Treasury.

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.

June 11, 2024 ¡ª James Soriano of Las Vegas, Nevada, pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to multiple bribery conspiracies, admitting that while he was a public official at Naval Information Warfare Center in San Diego, he accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from defense contractors in the form of free meals, tickets to premier sporting events, jobs for family and friends, and other things, in exchange for helping those contractors win and maintain hundreds of millions of dollars in government contracts. Soriano also pleaded guilty to filing a false 2018 tax return in connection with the bribes he accepted.

May 3, 2023 ¡ª John Francis Porter pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in San Francisco to conspiring to commit honest services mail and wire fraud, admitting that he participated in a scheme with another Recology executive to bribe the former head of the San Francisco Department of Public Works, Mohammed Nuru, announced the United States Attorney¡¯s Office, Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Special Agent in Charge Darren Lian and FBI Special Agent in Charge Robert K. Tripp. The guilty plea was accepted by the Honorable William H. Orrick, United States District Court.

March 28, 2023 ¡ª Leihinahina Sullivan of Lihue, Kauai, was sentenced today before United States District Judge J. Michael Seabright to 17 years in prison and three years of supervised release for three counts of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft related to multiple long-running fraudulent schemes. Sullivan previously pleaded guilty to these offenses in July 2021. She is also required to pay $3,396,035.15 in restitution to various victims and public and private entities and subject to a penalty of $2,012,41.92 in forfeiture for the criminal proceeds of her offenses. In sentencing Sullivan, Judge Seabright described the ¡°staggering scope, length, and complexity¡± of her criminal conduct.

May 16, 2024 ¡ª Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Harry T. Chavis, Jr., Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, and Robert Fuller, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the FBI, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned a 22-count indictment charging Konstantinos "Kosta" Diamantis, of Farmington, with extortion, bribery, conspiracy, and false statement offenses related to his conduct as director of Connecticut¡¯s Office of School Constructions Grants and Review (¡°OSCGR¡±), the state agency responsible for the grant administration of all Connecticut public school construction projects seeking state funding.

June 13, 2022 ¡ª Crimes almost always involve financial transactions or a financial motive, and that's why it's essential that law enforcement know how to trace money tied to criminal activity. The week of June 13, IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) will deliver a five-day training on financial investigative techniques to approximately 30 Palauan officials from the Financial Intelligence Unit, the Financial Institutions Commission, Bureau of Public Safety, the Office of the Attorney General, the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, the Bureau of Revenue and Taxation, the National Security Coordination Office, the Office of the Special Prosecutor, and the Foreign Investment Board. Training participants will include prosecutors, criminal investigators, tax auditors, intelligence analysts and more.

March 19, 2024 ¡ª Earlier today, Aventura Technologies, Inc. (Aventura) pleaded guilty to committing mail and wire fraud conspiracy and illegal importation in federal court in Central Islip. The guilty plea reflects Aventura¡¯s long-running, lucrative scheme to purchase Chinese-made security equipment (such as networked surveillance cameras) and resell it as U.S.-made, including to multiple agencies of the U.S. government, branches of the military and to customers overseas in the public and private sectors. The scheme began in 2006, ending in 2019 when charges were brought in this case. Aventura made more than $112 million in sales during that time. Today¡¯s proceeding was held before United States Magistrate Judge Arlene R. Lindsay.

IR-2023-86, April 18, 2023 ¡ª The Internal Revenue Service, Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services have jointly issued Frequently asked questions about the Affordable Care Act Implementation, Families First Coronavirus Response Act, Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Implementation Part 58 and Affordable Care Act and Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act Implementation Part 59 to clarify how the COVID-19 coverage and payment requirements under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act will change when the Public Health Emergency ends.