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October 4, 2023 ¡ª A Plymouth man was arrested today in connection with his alleged involvement in a scheme to fraudulently obtain and misuse COVID-19 relief funds from multiple assistance programs.

Oct. 1, 2024 ¡ª A Florida woman today admitted fraudulently obtaining $465,489 in COVID-19 relief funding after submitting fraudulent applications to victim lenders, the U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

Oct. 10, 2024 ¡ª Ejembi Onah of Ithaca, New York, was sentenced to serve 24 months in federal prison yesterday following trial convictions for two counts of wire fraud and three counts of transacting in criminally derived property for fraudulently obtaining two Paycheck Program (PPP) loans during the pandemic, receiving over $140,000 in loan proceeds, and spending those proceeds, among other things, in three separate transactions each exceeding $10,000.

July 31, 2023 ¡ª The United States Attorney¡¯s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Brian J. Albelli, of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, and formerly of Deerfield Beach, Florida, was charged in a criminal information on July 27, 2023, with wire fraud and money laundering.

Feb. 14, 2024 ¡ª A Plymouth, Mass. man pleaded guilty today to his involvement in a COVID-19 relief fund fraud scheme.

May 30, 2025 ¡ª A New Jersey man was sentenced to 20 months in prison for fraudulently obtaining approximately $149,900 in federal Economic Injury Disaster Loans (¡°EIDL¡±) loans, U.S. Alina Habba announced.

IR-2022-56, March 10, 2022 ¡ª The Internal Revenue Service today announced it has begun using voice and chat bots on two of its specialized toll-free telephone assistance lines and IRS.gov, enabling taxpayers with simple payment or collection notice questions to get what they need quickly and avoid waiting.

May 6, 2022 ¡ª United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Vaugh Simon of Pearland, TX, was sentenced today to one year and three months in prison, and was ordered to pay a total of more than $1.9 million restitution, including more than $1.7 million to Cisco Systems Inc., by United States District Judge Joel H. Slomsky for operating a sophisticated warranty claim scheme which targeted multiple tech companies. Simon was also ordered to separately forfeit more than $178,000 in criminal proceeds that he earned through his fraud.

Feb. 15, 2024 ¡ª A Lexington toxicology lab, LabTox, LLC, its owner, Ronald Coburn and its compliance officer, Erica Baker, agreed to civil judgments totaling $10,458,933 in favor of the United States, holding LabTox, Coburn, and Baker liable for submitting false claims for urine drug testing services to the Medicare and Kentucky Medicaid programs.

September 15, 2022 ¡ª A Jefferson City man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for a more than $27.1 million fraud scheme that included more than $12.4 million in PPP loans for four businesses, as well as a fraudulent loan for a development in Indiana.