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December 7, 2022 ¡ª Two men were sentenced yesterday for their roles in the submission of fraudulent loan applications seeking more than $1.7 million in forgivable Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.

May 21, 2025 ¡ª A federal indictment returned in U.S. District Court in Providence, RI, charges eight individuals for their roles in orchestrating and executing an elaborate transnational fraud and money laundering scheme targeting elderly citizens in the United States and Canada, announced Acting United States Attorney Sara Miron Bloom.

IR-2023-73, April 10, 2023 ¡ª The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service today issued Notice 2023-30 providing safe harbor deed language for extinguishment and boundary line adjustment clauses as required by the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022. Notice 2023-30 will be published in the Internal Revenue Bulletin on April 24.

June 2, 2025 ¡ª Fourteen people were indicted in late May and eleven were taken into custody in coordinated arrests last week as part of an ongoing investigation of drug traffickers with ties to drug trafficking in Seattle¡¯s International District and homeless encampments, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Teal Luthy Miller.

Insights into withholding requirements on gaming revenue distributions, including per capita payments to nonresident aliens; the tax implications when per capita distributions are made to a minor or placed in trust; allocations under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) and what are non-IGRA allocations; and withholding requirements with regard to IGRA distributions.

The Inflation Reduction Act¡¯s Prevailing Wage and Apprenticeship (PWA) provisions increase the amount of important tax credits for clean energy projects fivefold. Publication 5983 (sp), IRA Prevailing Wage and Apprenticeship Requirements (Spanish Version), lists general requirements for taxpayers (including project developers) to be eligible for the increased tax credits.

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. ¡ì 552, provides public access to agency records unless protected from disclosure by one of the FOIA¡¯s nine exemptions or three exclusions. The FOIA applies to records created by federal agencies and does not cover records held by Congress, the courts, or state and local government agencies.

Jan. 31, 2025 ¡ª Yesterday, Brandon Romand Parks ¡°Baywatch,¡± of Chicago, Illinois, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Philip P. Simon after being found guilty of racketeering conspiracy following an 18-day jury trial, announced Acting United States Attorney Tina L. Nommay.

Feb. 20, 2025 ¡ª A federal grand jury returned a seven-count indictment last week against Akash Kumar Singh of Sacramento, charging him with four counts of bank fraud and three counts of money laundering, Acting U.S. Attorney Michele Beckwith announced. The indictment was unsealed following Singh¡¯s arrest today.

March 24, 2025 ¡ª Abdihakim Ali Ahmed, a Minneapolis man, has pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering for his role in the $250 million fraud scheme that exploited a federally funded child nutrition program during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Lisa D. Kirkpatrick.