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IR-2024-169, June 20, 2024 ¡ª Following a detailed review to protect taxpayers and small businesses, the Internal Revenue Service today announced plans to deny tens of thousands of improper high-risk Employee Retention Credit claims while starting a new round of processing lower-risk claims to help eligible taxpayers.

March 9, 2023 ¡ª The former founder and chief executive of the local nonprofit Violence in Boston (VIB) and her husband, also a former founding director of the organization, have been charged in a superseding indictment today charging additional schemes to defraud the City of Boston out of COVID-19 relief funds and rental assistance money.

Sept. 12, 2024 ¡ª A Providence man has admitted to a federal judge that he participated in an international fraud scheme to defraud the federally-funded pandemic unemployment compensation program of more than $70,000, and to defraud an Alabama-based property title company of an additional $80,000, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.

July 25, 2023 ¡ª An entertainment industry accountant pleaded guilty today to a felony charge for lying to federal law enforcement officials about his role in laundering illicit proceeds from an illegal gambling operation run by a former minor-league baseball player and which involved professional athletes.

IR-2023-07, January 18, 2023 ¡ª The Internal Revenue Service today announced the appointment of nine new members to the Internal Revenue Service Advisory Council.

February 23, 2023 ¡ª A Lowell man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for engaging in a scheme to defraud his clients of millions of dollars.

May 29, 2024 ¡ª Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Rupert De Las Casas of Miami, Florida, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to approximately 85 months of imprisonment, time already served, and three years of supervised release for his participation in two separate cocaine trafficking conspiracies.

June 18, 2024 ¡ª A grand jury today indicted a Morton, Illinois man, Aaron Rossi (¡°Rossi¡±), on six counts of healthcare fraud, one count of mail fraud, and four counts of wire fraud for allegedly defrauding the State of Illinois and public and private health insurance companies out of hundreds of thousands of dollars during the COVID-19 pandemic.

March 12, 2024 ¡ª Roman Sterlingov, a citizen of Russia and Sweden, was found guilty today of operating among the longest-running and most prolific bitcoin money laundering services on the darknet.

March 18, 2024 ¡ª Four men were sentenced last week for participating in an eight-year investment fraud and money laundering scheme that defrauded over a dozen victims around the world out of more than $18 million.