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Aug. 29, 2024 ¡ª Timothy M. O¡¯Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Curtis A. Alleyne, of Almond, Wisconsin was sentenced on August 23, 2024, by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to a year and a day in federal prison for wire fraud and money laundering associated with a COVID-19 pandemic relief program. Alleyne pleaded guilty to this charge on May 9, 2024.

June 12, 2024 ¡ª A Queens, N.Y. man was arrested today in connection with an alleged scheme to steal over $3 million in COVID relief tax credits using the stolen identity of a corporate executive in New Jersey.

March 3, 2025 ¡ª A Mercer County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for evading federal income taxes and filing false tax returns, Acting U.S. Attorney Vikas Khanna announced.

April 23, 2025 ¡ª Jay Clayton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Mohanad Al-Zubaidi and Shaker Saleh Mohammed Hauter were both sentenced to three years in prison for operating an unlicensed money transmitting business that was responsible for illicitly moving more than $65 million between the United States and countries in the Middle East, including Yemen, Turkey, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, and Jordan.

May 17, 2024 ¡ª A Hopkinton man pleaded guilty this week to defrauding the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Travelers Insurance Company in relation to wages he paid to employees of his two construction companies.

May 23, 2024 ¡ª Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Harry T. Chavis, Jr., Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, announced that Vishal Dhar, of New Canaan, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to tax evasion.

On July 23, 2021, the IRS issued a notice, REG¨C102951¨C16, that includes proposed amendments to the rules for the electronic filing of withholding tax returns. The amendments reflect changes made by the Taxpayer First Act of 2019 (TFA).

October 17, 2022 ¡ª Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Saaed Moslem and his father Mehdi Moslem were sentenced today to 96 months in prison and 40 months in prison, respectively, for defrauding their lenders and the Internal Revenue Service (¡°IRS¡±). The defendants were previously found guilty of multiple offenses following a two-and-a-half-week jury trial in June 2021. U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel imposed the sentence in White Plains federal court.

November 17, 2023 ¡ª After deliberating for less than one hour, a federal jury found Norberto Castillo-Lopez guilty of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine, United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced today.

March 19, 2024 ¡ª Terrence L. Pounds of Holland, Ohio was sentenced to 94 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Pamela Barker after earlier pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud and money laundering. He was also ordered to pay $4,239,940.43 to the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and serve 3 years of supervised release.