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If there is a federal tax lien on your home, you must satisfy the lien before you can sell or refinance your home.

March 1, 2024 ¡ª United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that a federal jury today found Judy Grace Sellers guilty of conspiracy to submit false tax returns and defraud the U.S. Treasury, substantive counts of aiding in the preparation of false tax returns, filing a false lien against the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, and failure to appear. Sellers faces a maximum penalty of 23 years in federal prison. Her sentencing hearing is scheduled for May 22, 2024.

May 22, 2024 ¡ª U.S. District Judge Mark E. Walker today sentenced Judy Grace Sellers to five years in federal prison for conspiracy to submit false tax returns and defraud the U.S. Treasury, substantive counts of aiding in the preparation of false tax returns, and filing a false lien against the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, followed by a consecutive four-year sentence for failure to appear. Sellers was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $23,264.08, representing the unrecovered loss from the tax counts. Sellers originally was indicted in December 2014. Her indictment was superseded to add a charge for absconding while on bond in February 2024. She was convicted on all counts by a federal jury on March 1, 2024.

July 28, 2022 ¡ª Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Deron D. Freeman, of Glastonbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for tax fraud offenses.

October 19, 2022 ¡ª A federal jury today convicted Douglas Smith, of Strongsville, Ohio, of four counts of attempting to evade payment of income taxes for the tax years 2004 to 2012 and 2014 to 2017.

Aug. 1, 2024 ¡ª A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging a Shelby County chiropractor with tax evasion, filing false tax returns and obstructing the IRS.

August 29, 2022 ¡ª A former Massachusetts attorney and his wife have been sentenced in federal court in Boston in connection with various mortgage fraud schemes.

Feb. 28, 2025 ¡ª Two brothers have been indicted by a federal grand jury for refusing to vacate properties seized by the IRS and for fraudulently attempting to prevent the sale of those properties to satisfy nearly $1.4 million in unpaid federal income taxes.

June 3, 2022 ¡ª A Utah man was sentenced today to five years in prison for evading more than $1.8 million in federal income tax and obstructing the IRS¡¯s efforts to collect the money he owed.

Feb. 27, 2025 ¡ª Sedita Charles Cayson of Panacea, Florida, was sentenced to 14 months in federal prison after being found guilty of five counts of willfully failing to file his income tax returns for tax years 2017-2021, at the conclusion of a prior day-and-a-half bench trial.