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July 20, 2023 ¡ª Acting United States Attorney Susan T. Lehr announced that Jeffrey Stenstrom, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Brian C. Buescher to 30 months¡¯ imprisonment for income tax evasion and 78 months¡¯ imprisonment for conspiracy to commit money laundering; these terms of incarceration were ordered to be run concurrently.

November 1, 2022 ¡ª A federal judge sentenced Herdade Lokua and Jospin Mujangi, of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), to prison for their roles in trafficking wildlife products from DRC to Seattle. Lokua was sentenced to 20 months in prison and Mujangi was sentenced to 14 months in prison. Both men had pleaded guilty to conspiracy and Lacey Act charges on July 13.

November 29, 2022 ¡ª A Sacramento attorney and filer of thousands of disability discrimination lawsuits pleaded guilty today to filing a false tax return on which he underreported the income he earned from many of those lawsuits. U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert and Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department's Tax Division made the announcement.

MINNEAPOLIS ¨C Sahra Nur of Minneapolis has been sentenced to 51 months in prison followed by 2 years of supervised release for her role in a $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. Nur was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $5,000,240.

Dec. 10, 2024 ¡ª A four-count indictment was unsealed today charging Hang Sun, also known as Cody Sun, with conspiracy, wire fraud, smuggling, and a violation of the Arms Export Control Act for his role in an illegal scheme to send export-controlled defense-related technical data to China and to unlawfully supply the Department of Defense (DOD) with Chinese-origin rare earth magnets for aviation systems and military items.

Dec. 17, 2024 ¡ª Edward Y. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the guilty plea of Rafael Alvarez, a/k/a ¡°the Magician,¡± to a two-count Superseding Information charging Alvarez with one count of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and steal government funds and one count of aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false and fraudulent U.S. individual income tax return.

Nov. 7, 2024 ¡ª Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Ilya Kahn, a national of the United States, Israel and Russia, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the Export Control Reform Act for his role in a transnational, multimillion-dollar scheme to secure and illegally export dual-use semiconductors and other sensitive technology to Joint Stock Company Research and Development Center ELVEES (Elvees) and other entities in Russia.

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 established a stock repurchase excise tax under section 4501 equal to 1% of the fair market value (FMV) of stock repurchased during the tax year by certain publicly traded corporations or their specified affiliates, effective for repurchases occurring after 2022. Use Form 7208, Excise Tax on Repurchase of Corporate Stock, to figure the excise tax on stock repurchases.

Jan. 24, 2025 ¡ª A Bloomington man has been sentenced to 210 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his role in a $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. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $47,920,514.

Jan. 27, 2025 ¡ª Marc H. Silverman, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Gawayne Fisher, also known as ¡°Fruit¡± and ¡°Tank,¡± of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in New Haven to 217 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for heading a large-scale drug trafficking ring while on federal supervised release.