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May 15, 2025 ¡ª Two men were sentenced to prison today for a wire and tax fraud scheme to obtain title to a $1.3 million home in Roanoke County, Virginia. Herman Estes Jr. of Fieldale Virginia was sentenced to 84 months in prison; his co-conspirator Daniel Heggins of Charlotte, North Carolina was sentenced to 24 months in prison.

November 7, 2022 ¡ª A Massachusetts man has pleaded guilty to his role in a tax fraud conspiracy arising from a ¡°ten-percenting¡± scheme in which he cashed winning Massachusetts state lottery tickets on behalf of the ticket holders and claimed fake gambling losses to avoid taxes on the winnings.

August 25, 2022 ¡ª Joseph D. Radcliffe, of Elka Park, New York, was sentenced today to three years of probation, and to spend four consecutive weekends in jail as a condition of his probation, for conspiring with others to evade taxes on income earned from stock sales.

August 22, 2023 ¡ª A Freeman man had his initial appearance today on charges of wire fraud, filing a false tax return, tax evasion, and making false statements to a financial institution.

April 24, 2025 ¡ª A Florida man was sentenced today to 50 months in prison for not paying taxes withheld from his employees¡¯ wages and filing a false tax return.

IR-2024-98, April 8, 2024 ¡ª On day eight of the Dirty Dozen tax scam series, the Internal Revenue Service today warned about bad tax information on social media that can lure honest taxpayers with bad advice, potentially leading to identity theft and tax problems.

Feb. 15, 2024 ¡ª Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that John Horvath of Bristol, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 34 months of imprisonment, followed by two years of supervised release, for fraud and tax offenses.

March 6, 2025 ¡ª A Hampton Roads duo pled guilty to their roles in a refund scheme involving pandemic relief tax credits.

October 6, 2023 ¡ª A Williamsburg man pleaded guilty yesterday to tax fraud.

March 21, 2024 ¡ª The United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Roslyn Melodie Haile, of Ardmore, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison for one count of Bank Fraud and one count of Tax Fraud, to be served concurrently, followed by three years of supervised release. In addition, Haile was ordered to pay $428,271.26 in restitution to The MORE Foundation, and to pay an additional $120,777.02 in restitution to the IRS.