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February 21, 2023 ¡ª A Kalispell woman who admitted to funneling millions of dollars overseas in a money mule scheme that defrauded victims was sentenced today to 57 months in prison, ordered to pay $2,043,340 restitution and to serve three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said.

September 26, 2022 ¡ª Raghavender Reddy Budamala, of Irvine, was sentenced by United States District Judge Otis D. Wright II, who also ordered Budamala to pay $5,151,497 in restitution.

September 28, 2022 ¡ª A West Warwick man who conducted a decade-long Ponzi scheme that left some investors empty-handed and the Government seeking tax payments due to the Internal Revenue Service pleaded guilty this afternoon in federal court in Providence to wire fraud and tax evasion.

October 5, 2022 ¡ª A Springfield woman has been sentenced for her role in a large-scale drug trafficking conspiracy that distributed heroin and crack cocaine across western Massachusetts and into Vermont.

October 13, 2022 ¡ª Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Jamie Petrone, of Lithia Springs, Georgia, formerly of Naugatuck, Connecticut, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 109 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for fraud and tax offenses related to her theft of $40 million in computer and electronic hardware from the Yale University School of Medicine where she was employed.

October 13, 2022 ¡ª United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Christian Dunbar, of Philadelphia, PA, the former Philadelphia City Treasurer, pleaded guilty in front of United States District Court Judge Cynthia M. Rufe to procurement of citizenship unlawfully and through multiple false statements; submitting false citizenship papers; and failure to file tax returns, all in connection with false statements and altered documents he submitted as part of his application to become a U.S. citizen, and failing to file his federal tax returns in three separate years.

November 8, 2022 ¡ª A Mexican national man and his wife, both residing in San Antonio, were sentenced in federal court today for a scheme to defraud business investors of over $1 million and failing to properly declare their income to the Internal Revenue Service.

These documents are prepared by field attorneys in the Office of Chief Counsel, reviewed by an Associate Office, and subsequently issued to field or service center campus employees of the Internal Revenue Service.

September 16, 2022 ¡ª A Los Angeles man was sentenced in federal court today to 38? months in prison for his participation in BitConnect, a massive fraudulent cryptocurrency investment scheme, which defrauded thousands of investors from the United States and abroad.

November 30, 2023 ¡ª An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging two defendants, Walter Stanzione and William Neogra, with wire fraud conspiracy for systematically defrauding the City of New York. The defendants are charged with overbilling New York City agencies for more than a decade in connection with contracts to repair and maintain fire alarm systems.