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The Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act changed many items for single-employer defined benefit plans, including giving significant funding relief by allowing plans to use a 25-year average interest rate. At the same time, MAP-21 increased the annual Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation premium each year beginning in 2013.

June 12, 2025 ¡ª A former resident of Crafton, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to twenty-three years of imprisonment and five years of supervised release on his convictions of Conspiracy to Distribute Five Kilograms or More of Cocaine and a Kilogram or More of Heroin and Conspiracy to Launder Drug Trafficking Proceeds, Acting United States Attorney Troy Rivetti announced today.

Dec. 5, 2024 ¡ª Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Stephen Belleau, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned an indictment charging Roberto Lozada, also known as Roberto Lozado and ¡°Omi,¡± of New Haven, with possession with intent to distribute cocaine.

Aug. 27, 2024 ¡ª Augusto Alizo was sentenced today to 14 months in prison for charges related to his role in a multi-million-dollar fraud scheme, announced United States Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey and IRS Criminal Investigation (CI) Acting Special Agent in Charge Michael Mosley. The sentence was handed down by the Hon. Richard Seeborg, Chief U.S. District Judge.

July 31, 2023 ¡ª A New Jersey tax preparer was arrested today for fraudulently seeking more than $124 million from the IRS by filing over 1,000 false tax forms claiming COVID-19-related employment tax credits, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger and Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg announced today.

Jan. 24, 2025 ¡ª Robert Rahrle formerly of Florida and now residing in the Northern District of New York, pled guilty Wednesday to tax evasion and wire fraud. United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman, and Harry Chavis Jr., Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office, Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), made the announcement.

March 6, 2025 ¡ª Acting United States Attorney Sara C. Sweeney announces that Terry Brunning was arrested and charged with evasion of the payment of taxes and four counts of filing false income tax returns. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison for the evasion count, and up to three years¡¯ imprisonment for each count of filing of a false tax return.

March 21, 2025 ¡ª Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that Sharhonda Law of Haughton, Louisiana, has been sentenced by United States District Judge S. Maurice Hicks, Jr. to 20 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for tax fraud. Law was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $123,455.

April 3, 2025 ¡ª W. Stephen Muldrow, U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, announced the indictment of two businessmen, a certified public accountant, and four Puerto Rico-based companies for a fraudulent scheme to illegally obtain federal recovery funds under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, bribe a bank employee, and launder the fraudulent proceeds of the scheme.

April 23, 2025 ¡ª Marc H. Silverman, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Harry Chavis, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) in New England, announced that Analia Mountzoures of East Lyme, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to a tax offense.