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December 21, 2023 ¡ª Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Stuart M. Goldberg, Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department¡¯s Tax Division, announced that Rolf Schnellmann, a Swiss former executive, pled guilty today to conspiring to defraud the United States in connection with a scheme to help high-value U.S. taxpayer-clients conceal more than $60 million in income and assets held in undeclared, offshore bank accounts and to evade U.S. income taxes. Schnellmann pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Gregory H. Woods.

March 1, 2024 ¡ª United States Attorney Ronald C. Gathe, Jr., announced that U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson sentenced Dr. Melissa Rose Barrett of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Clive, Iowa, to 52 months in federal prison following her conviction for tax evasion. In addition to the term of imprisonment, the Court imposed a fine of $200,000 and ordered Barrett to serve one year of supervised release.

March 22, 2024 ¡ª Stephanie L. Roberts of Gastonia, N.C., pleaded guilty today to stealing thousands of dollars from a non-profit corporation for cancer patients, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.

April 5, 2024 ¡ª A woman who currently operates a business in southern Illinois preparing tax returns is facing federal charges for allegedly making intentional false statements on her personal income tax returns.

May 3, 2024 ¡ª Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Julien Levy and Keily Nunez were sentenced by United States District Judge Pamela K. Chen to 20 and 40 months in prison, respectively, for defrauding JetBlue Airways of approximately $10 million. Levy and Nunez pleaded guilty to committing honest services wire fraud in June and July 2023, respectively.

May 13, 2024 ¡ª A Utah man who admitted embezzling approximately $700,000 from a Montana company was sentenced today to 21 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $700,000 restitution, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said.

May 11, 2023 ¡ª The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on May 9, 2023, Jonathan Olivetti of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 27 months imprisonment by United States District Court Judge Jennifer P. Wilson for wire fraud in connection with a scheme to obtain COVID-19 pandemic relief money he was not entitled to receive, mail fraud and tax evasion.

Nov. 22, 2024 ¡ª An undercover law enforcement investigation has resulted in federal prison sentences for two Nigerian nationals residing in the Chicago suburbs who conducted online inheritance scams and other fraud schemes.

Sept. 27, 2024 ¡ª Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Kevin Biebel of Hardeeville, South Carolina, formerly of New Milford, Connecticut, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 18 months of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for tax fraud.

Jan. 17, 2025 ¡ª United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Scott Mason, of Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, was charged by criminal information with wire fraud, securities fraud, investment adviser fraud, and filing false tax returns, arising from two fraudulent schemes that Mason, through his investment advisory firm Rubicon Wealth Management LLC, orchestrated to divert millions of dollars in client funds in order to finance his lavish lifestyle.