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A Rhode Island mortgage broker who ran a Ponzi scheme with investors¡¯ monies causing millions of dollars in losses, who fraudulently obtained more than $160,000 in COVID-19 pandemic-related SBA loans, and who failed to pay more than $140,000 in taxes due the IRS was sentenced today to more than four years in federal prison and was ordered to pay restitution to his victims, announced Acting United States Attorney Sara Miron Bloom.

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.

June 5, 2023 ¡ª A Utah man was sentenced to two years¡¯ imprisonment and ordered to pay more than $450,000 in restitution after he admitted to making false statements in a COVID-era Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan, and money laundering.

June 6, 2023 ¡ª An Ottumwa man and woman were convicted of conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service by filing hundreds of fraudulent tax returns and of defrauding applicants out of unemployment insurance benefits and the Iowa Workforce Development out of benefits payments.

June 9, 2023 ¡ª A Las Vegas tax preparer was sentenced yesterday by United States District Judge Richard F. Boulware II to three years in prison, followed by one year of supervised release, for fraudulently preparing and filing over $1.2 million false income tax returns.

June 20, 2023 ¡ª A criminal indictment has been unsealed in federal court in Asheville, charging four individuals with allegedly executing a multi-million dollar bank fraud scheme, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. The indictment charges Kotto Yaphet Paul of Waxhaw, N.C., Latoya Tamieka Ford of Covington, Georgia, Bruce Howard Marko of Charlotte, N.C., and Love Norman of West Palm Beach, Florida, with one count of wire fraud and bank fraud conspiracy, 16 counts of financial institution fraud, and four counts of money laundering.

November 28, 2023 ¡ª U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew has sentenced Jignesh Purshottambhai Vekaria of Tampa to four years and three months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit money laundering. As part of his sentence, the court also entered an order of forfeiture in the amount of $372,000, the proceeds of the offense. Vekaria had pleaded guilty on July 20, 2023.

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.

Jan. 31, 2024 ¡ª A resident of Connoquenessing, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in federal court on Jan. 30, 2024, to 51 months in prison and three years of supervised release on her convictions for wire fraud and making false statements on her tax returns, United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced today.

Feb. 28, 2024 ¡ª Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Feb. 27, 2024, United States District Judge Brett H. Ludwig sentenced Rodney C. Smith to 41 months¡¯ imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for his willful preparation of false tax returns through his business, Xpert Tax Services in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Smith was also ordered to pay $216,643 in restitution and a $400 special assessment.