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IR-2022-127, June 17, 2022 ¡ª The Internal Revenue Service today announced expanded voice bot options to help eligible taxpayers easily verify their identity to set up or modify a payment plan while avoiding long wait times.

January 26, 2023 ¡ª Filthy Fuhrer, formerly Timothy Lobdell; Roy Naughton, aka Thumper; Glen Baldwin, aka Glen Dog; Colter O'Dell; and Craig King, aka Oakie, were sentenced this week in Alaska to life in prison without the possibility of parole. All five defendants were convicted of racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy in aid of racketeering, murder in aid of racketeering, kidnapping resulting in death, and kidnapping conspiracy. Fuhrer and Naughton were also each convicted of an additional two counts of kidnapping conspiracy, kidnapping, and assault in aid of racketeering.

May 14, 2024 ¡ª Three southwest Missouri residents are among five defendants indicted for their roles in a drug-trafficking conspiracy after federal agents seized 16 kilograms of cocaine while arresting two co-defendants in Texas.

July 21, 2023 ¡ª A California woman was sentenced to 66 months in prison, two years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $1,791,334.81 in restitution for embezzling more than $1 million from her employer, announced United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger.

July 6, 2022 ¡ª Four women, all sisters, have pleaded guilty to their involvement in defrauding the U.S. Department of Agriculture out of over $11.5 million that was intended to benefit farmers who had been discriminated against. Lynda Charles of Hot Springs; Rosie Bryant of Colleyville, Texas; Delois Bryant of North Little Rock; and Brenda Sherpell of Gainesville, Texas, each pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and to defraud the Internal Revenue Service today before Chief United States District Judge D. Price Marshall. Chief Judge Marshall will sentence the defendants at a later date.

March 5, 2025 ¡ª A district judge sentenced a Collinsville woman to 51 months¡¯ imprisonment after she embezzled more than $158,000 and stole the identity of a coworker while employed by AMK Heating and Cooling in Edwardsville.

May 17, 2024 ¡ª Six defendants, including a former IRS revenue officer and his brother, have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from 12 to 30 months following their convictions on charges that they fraudulently obtained millions of dollars in COVID-19 pandemic relief funds through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), announced United States Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey; IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Acting Special Agent in Charge Michael Mosley of the Oakland Field Office; Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) Special Agent in Charge Weston King of the Western Region; and Office of Inspector General for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Special Agent in Charge Jon Ellwanger of the Western Region. The sentences were handed down by the Hon. Araceli Mart¨ªnez-Olgu¨ªn, United States District Judge.

April 23, 2024 ¡ª A Deepwater, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for fraudulently obtaining more than $500,000 in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.

July 23, 2024 ¡ª Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Francius Marganda, an Indonesian national, pleaded guilty to securities fraud in connection with a $23 million Ponzi scheme that defrauded hundreds of predominantly Indonesian and Indo-American victim investors.

April 16, 2024 ¡ª A senior administrator for both the Village of Dolton, Ill., and Thornton Township, Ill., has been charged in federal court with engaging in a bankruptcy fraud scheme involving the making of false statements in his bankruptcy petition to conceal from creditors his assets and sources of income and a significant claim against him.