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Dec. 31, 2025
Dec. 30, 2025
Dec. 22, 2025
- IRS-CI reveals top 10 cases of 2025
- IRS seeks public comment on Voluntary Disclosure Practice proposal
- Oahu woman pleads guilty to filing false tax returns and wire fraud
- Pensacola woman sentenced to federal prison for preparing false tax returns and identity theft
- Former Newark city council member sentenced to 18 months for bribery, kickback, and tax fraud scheme; co-conspirator sentenced to 25 months
- Two Absecon men admit to conspiring to defraud the IRS
- Seven farmers and a tobacco warehouse manager sentenced for crop insurance fraud scheme
- Boston man pleads guilty to loan and check fraud
Dec. 19, 2025
- Vancouver, Washington, tax preparer sentenced to 18-months in prison
- Second of pair of men operating massive stolen goods trafficking scheme pleads guilty
- Federal jury in Chicago convicts man of laundering money for Mexico-based drug trafficking organization
- Kansas businessman & employee indicted for PPP fraud
- Dominican national pleads guilty to money laundering and identity theft charges
- Fall River man convicted of drug distribution resulting in death of a minor and the sale of drugs and machineguns on Telegram app
- Jacksonville man sentenced to more than 14 years in prison for role in drive-by shooting on I-95
- Former Eastside real estate broker convicted of real estate investment fraud scheme that stole more than $2 million from Washington victims
- Ohio resident sentenced to 15 years in prison for drug trafficking and unlawfully possessing a firearm
- East Lyme business owner sentenced for tax offense
- Married owners of downtown L.A. precious metals businesses plead guilty to hiding from IRS millions of dollars in cash transactions
- Former New York doctor sentenced for receiving kickbacks
- Former state senator pleads guilty to obstruction of justice
- Lakeland tax preparer sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison
Dec. 18, 2025
- Oregon woman sentenced to federal prison for bank fraud and tax evasion
- Leader and co-defendant in multi-million-dollar money laundering conspiracy plead guilty
- Romanian nationals unlawfully residing in the United States indicted for conspiring to steal SNAP benefits
- Six additional defendants charged, one defendant pleads guilty in ongoing fraud schemes
- Tech company executive sentenced to prison for multimillion-dollar embezzlement scheme and tax evasion
- Greenwich investment advisor pleads guilty to tax evasion
- H Block gang member pleads guilty to drug conspiracy
- Two pharmacists sentenced to years in prison for illegal distribution of oxycodone
- Chief executive officer of tax preparation firm charged with federal tax offenses
- Antiques and art dealer charged with money laundering and theft offenses
- Customs broker sentenced to over 4 years in federal prison for defrauding clients out of millions of dollars and cheating on taxes
- Father and son tax preparers indicted on 24 counts in defrauding the IRS
- Co-founder of Paycheck Protection Program lender service provider sentenced for $65m COVID-19 relief fraud scheme
Dec. 17, 2025
- Franklin CPA sentenced to nine years in prison for stealing clients’ funds and tax fraud
- Members of a local drug trafficking organization sentenced in federal court
- Former Lafayette assistant district attorney sentenced to seven years in federal prison for bribery scheme
- Illinois man sentenced to 360 months in prison
- Roofing contractor sentenced to 15 months in prison for tax evasion scheme
- Texas woman sentenced for quarter million-dollar COVID fraud
- Three Honduran nationals sentenced to prison for their roles in a bank fraud conspiracy
- Digital health company and medical practice indicted in $100m Adderall distribution scheme
Dec. 16, 2025
- Woman sentenced to 7 years in federal prison for trafficking cocaine
- Irish national pleads guilty to multi-state home repair fraud scheme
- Brooklyn church pastor pleads guilty to tax evasion
- Life sentence for Highs RICO defendant who murdered innocent bystander
- Sledge, Mississippi man sentenced to 37 months imprisonment for COVID-19 fraud scheme
- Springfield business owner indicted for COVID fraud and money laundering
- Colorado man sentenced to 12.5 years in prison for promoting an abusive tax shelter and operating a multi-million-dollar investment fraud scheme
- Coordinated federal-local law enforcement efforts lead surge in arrests, drug seizures, and federal drug trafficking charges in San Francisco
- Union City “ghost preparer” sentenced to prison for fraudulently seeking over $4 million in COVID-19 employment tax credits
- Minnesota man sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for drug trafficking conspiracy
Dec. 15, 2025
- American Distillation pleads guilty after releasing pollution into the Cape Fear River
- Washington Township man sentenced to 49 months’ imprisonment for tax fraud scheme and theft from elderly victim
- Old Saybrook man convicted in 2018 of tax fraud offenses sentenced to additional prison time for violating supervised release
- Woodbridge man sentenced to 32 months in federal prison for $2.3 million pandemic relief program scheme
- Former commander and adjutant of nonprofit veteran’s organization indicted for wire fraud and tax fraud
Dec. 12, 2025
- IRS-CI issues Fiscal Year 2025 Annual Report showcasing banner investigative results
- Southbridge man pleads guilty to role in cocaine conspiracy and possession of a machinegun
- Dominican national sentenced for dealing fentanyl
- Illinois woman pleads guilty to COVID-19 fraud
- Miami man indicted on federal wire-fraud conspiracy charges
- Four family members convicted of multimillion-dollar tax refund fraud scheme
- Florida man convicted of leading $300 million money laundering operation for transnational criminal organizations
- Former New York doctor sentenced for receiving kickbacks
- New York developer charged with defrauding pandemic relief loan programs of more than $8 million
- Springfield man pleads guilty to mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, and money laundering
Dec. 11, 2025
- Architect of massive $420 million bank fraud scheme sentenced to 3 years in prison
- Boston man indicted for attempted sex trafficking of a minor and other sex trafficking crimes
- Executive director of Black Lives Matter OKC charged with wire fraud and money laundering
- Brockton woman charged with theft of government funds in connection with stolen $931,000 tax refund check
- Hollywood director and writer convicted of $11 million fraud on subscription streaming service
- CEO of telecommunications construction company charged with commercial bribery, fraud, and witness tampering offenses
- One way ticket to prison: Suitcases stuffed with 45 pounds of meth lead to 10-year federal sentence
Dec. 10, 2025
- Thirteen defendants from across the U.S. indicted in cocaine trafficking ring
- New York man pleads guilty to mortgage fraud and maintaining an illegal marijuana grow house
- Ringleader of fentanyl trafficking conspiracy sentenced to prison
- Historic Homeland Security Task Force New York targets foreign terrorists, cartel members, and criminal organizations with ties to Big Apple
- Eight individuals charged with cocaine and fentanyl trafficking
- D.C. campaign finance consultant sentenced to prison in $1.5 million fraud of COVID-era loan program
- Clark County employee indicted for stealing money from the estates of deceased county residents
- Mexican national sentenced to life imprisonment in the hostage taking and murdering U.S. citizen in Tijuana
- Federal jury convicts former suburban Chicago police chief of bribery and obstruction of justice
- South Dakota and Arizona men collectively sentenced to decades in federal prison for conspiracies to distribute fentanyl pills and to launder drug proceeds
- Virtual asset trading platform pleads guilty to violating the travel act and other federal criminal charges
- Canton man sentenced to more than 3 years in federal prison for wire fraud and money laundering
- Founder and chief executive officer of investment company charged in multi-million dollar fraud schemes
Dec. 9, 2025
- Springfield business owner pleads guilty to unlawfully possessing firearms and filing false tax return
- Former Compton politician pleads guilty to bribing corrupt Baldwin Park official for marijuana permits and to cheating on taxes
- Southern California man pleads guilty to fentanyl and methamphetamine distribution conspiracy
- Montgomery County man sentenced to federal prison for defrauding elderly victims of hundreds of thousands of dollars
- Executive Director of in-home care business sentenced to prison for failing to pay quarterly employment taxes
Dec. 8, 2025
- Fresno man sentenced to 7.5 years in prison for $30-plus million fraud scheme
- Wife of Sinaloa cartel kingpin sentenced to 14 years in prison
- Two Mexican nationals indicted in real estate fraud and money laundering scheme
- Guilty plea and superseding indictment announced in social engineering scheme that stole $263 million in cryptocurrency
Dec. 5, 2025
- Florida man sentenced to 2 years in prison for tax evasion and bankruptcy fraud
- Father and son leaders of transnational criminal organization sentenced to prison for violations of kingpin statute and money laundering
- Florida, Virginia residents indicted in $26 million wire fraud and money laundering scheme
- Former senior DEA official indicted for conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization
- 15 alleged members of drug trafficking organization indicted
Dec. 4, 2025
- U.S. Attorney's Office hosts annual meeting of the Western District's Health Care Fraud Working Group
- Five members of Hobbs based drug trafficking organization arrested on federal drug trafficking charges
- Former president of failed Oklahoma bank indicted for bank fraud
- California lobbyist and former chief of staff to an elected official plead guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud
- Ringleaders of national COVID-19 fraud scheme sentenced to 204 months in federal prison
Dec. 3, 2025
- Kansas City man pleads guilty to COVID fraud
- Kansas City woman pleads guilty to preparing and filing false income tax returns
- Trucking company operator sentenced to prison for tax evasion
Dec. 2, 2025
- Dallas business owner sentenced to more than eight years in prison for failing to pay over withheld employment taxes
- Joaquin Guzman Lopez—Son of “El Chapo” and a head of Sinaloa cartel—pleads guilty to federal drug charges in Chicago
- Defendants sentenced to prison for pandemic loan fraud scheme
Dec. 1, 2025
- Minneapolis non-profit director charged with fraud
- Former executive from Marlborough charged with conspiracy to defraud the IRS and obstruction of justice
- Broome County man sentenced to 19 years for drug trafficking, firearm offenses, and money laundering
- Wakefield woman convicted of money laundering conspiracy