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April 16, 2024 ¡ª Carol Jean Darrow pled guilty today pursuant to a criminal information to failure to pay $346,775 in withheld employee payroll taxes. Darrow is the co-owner and operator of The Auto Finders, Inc. (TAF), a corporation headquartered in Durham, North Carolina. TAF is an automobile dealership. The defendant, a resident of Raleigh, North Carolina, managed the financial affairs of TAF, including approving payments to creditors and payroll taxes due.

IR-2023-112, June 8, 2023 ¨D The Internal Revenue Service today encouraged nearly 1.5 million people across the nation to submit a tax return to claim their refunds for tax year 2019 by the July 17, 2023, deadline.

Feb. 7, 2025 ¡ª Former Massachusetts state senator Dean A. Tran was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for scheming to defraud the Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance and collecting income that he failed to report to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

March 5, 2025 ¡ª A Nigerian national living in Mexico has been extradited to the United States for his role in a scheme to break into Massachusetts tax preparation firms¡¯ computer networks and to file fraudulent tax returns.

Jan. 19, 2024 ¡ª A Florida attorney pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to defraud the United States and tax evasion arising out of his promotion of an illegal tax shelter scheme involving false charitable deductions.

July 19, 2024 ¡ª Scotty Thomas Lumley of Hendersonville, Tennessee was sentenced to serve 47 months in federal prison and to pay $1,198,833.62 in restitution earlier today, announced Henry C. Leventis, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.

June 12, 2024 ¡ª A federal jury in Portland found the operator of a local chain of check cashing businesses guilty today for his role in a multiyear scheme to obstruct the IRS from collecting payroll and income taxes on construction workers¡¯ wages.

July 13, 2022 ¡ª A Rome, New York couple and their adult son were sentenced today in federal court in Utica for tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud the United States, announced United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman, Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department¡¯s Tax Division, and Thomas Fattorusso, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Division, New York Field Office.

Feb. 5, 2025 ¡ª Jonathan Ramaci of Mt. Pleasant was sentenced to one and a half years in federal prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud and filing a false income tax return.

May 26, 2022 ¡ª The owners of a Duncanville tax preparation business were sentenced to a combined five and a half years in federal prison for defrauding the IRS out of more than $3.3 million, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.