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Current news
Sept. 24
Sept. 23
- Greenville tax preparer sentenced to over 2 years in fraud case
- Gregg County tax preparers guilty of federal violations related to falsified tax returns
- Two illegal aliens from Mexico indicted after Homeland Security Task Force investigation leads to seizure of nearly 60 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine and fentanyl
- Convictions through guilty pleas and sentencings in Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) prosecutions (Sept. 14 through Sept. 18, 2026)
- Columbus drug dealer sentenced to 20 years in prison
Sept. 22
- Sioux Falls man sentenced to 33 months in federal prison for conducting a large-scale federal income tax fraud scheme
- Former IRS employee indicted for filing false tax returns for drug dealers
- Providence attorney pleads guilty to wire fraud and tax evasion
Sept. 21
- Chicago felon sentenced to more than decade in federal prison in “massive” U.S. Treasury check scheme
- Irvine woman sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for not reporting $2.6 million in income she obtained via crypto criminal
- Former bank CEO sentenced to over 9 years in prison for multimillion-dollar wire fraud conspiracy and Venezuela sanctions evasion scheme
- Nigerian man sentenced to 48 months’ imprisonment for investment fraud scheme
Sept. 18
- Plainfield man with prior federal conviction pleads guilty to tax evasion
- Shelton man charged with stealing government funds through altered U.S. Treasury tax refund checks
- Baytown man sent to prison following Homeland Security Task Force cocaine investigation
- Two men admit roles in success village apartments embezzlement conspiracy
Sept. 17
- District of Massachusetts joins DOJ Fraud Division, SBA and SBA-OIG in nationwide COVID-era fraud enforcement surge
- West Dallas man pleads guilty to $15 million bank fraud
- Arizona woman, Dallas man receive lengthy federal prison sentences as part of Homeland Security Task Force investigation into deadly fentanyl overdose in the Eastern District of Texas
Sept. 16
- U.S. Attorney’s Office joins DOJ Fraud Division, SBA, and SBA-OIG in surge takedown exceeding $245m in COVID-era loan fraud
- President of environmental company sentenced to more than six and a half years in prison for leaving asbestos at suburban Chicago demolition site
- Two defendants employed at L.A.-area homeless nonprofits arrested on federal charges alleging misuse of millions of taxpayer dollars
- Former East Bay financial advisor sentenced to nine years in federal prison for Ponzi scheme that defrauded at least 93 victims
- Maryland man sentenced for leading multimillion-dollar money laundering conspiracy in connection with HSTF case
- Convictions through guilty pleas and sentencings in Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) prosecutions (Sept. 8 through Sept. 11, 2026)
- District of Connecticut joins DOJ Fraud Division, SBA, and SBA OIG in surge takedown exceeding $245 million in COVID-era loan fraud offenses
Sept. 15
- The Northern District of West Virginia joins DOJ Fraud Division, SBA, and SBA OIG in surge takedown exceeding $245 million in COVID-era loan fraud; two Morgantown business owners part of national fraud takedown
- Western District of Texas U.S. Attorney’s Office joins DOJ Fraud Division in surge takedown exceeding $245 million in COVID-era loan fraud
- Southern District of Ohio joins DOJ Fraud Division, SBA & SBA OIG in surge takedown exceeding $245 million in COVID-era loan fraud
- Twelve individuals charged in $10m home daycare fraud schemes
- Organizer in $36 million transnational scheme to defraud more than 400 elderly and vulnerable Americans pleads guilty to money laundering conspiracy
- Mozambican receives lengthy federal prison sentence for money laundering conspiracy in the Eastern District of Texas as part of Homeland Security Task Force investigation
- U.S. Attorney’s Office joins DOJ Fraud Division, SBA, and SBA OIG in surge takedown exceeding $245 million in COVID-era loan fraud
- OnlyFans content creator pleads guilty to tax evasion
- Peoria man charged with defrauding AHCCCS
Sept. 14
- Attorney who failed to file tax returns and pay more than $3.1 million owed sentenced to prison
- WDKY joins DOJ Fraud Division, SBA, and SBA OIG in surge takedown exceeding $245 million in COVID-era loan fraud
- U.S. Attorney’s Office for Western District of Pennsylvania joins DOJ Fraud Division, SBA, and SBA OIG in surge takedown exceeding $245 million in COVID-era loan fraud
- U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of North Carolina joins DOJ Fraud Division, SBA, and SBA OIG in surge takedown exceeding $245 million in COVID-era loan fraud
- Eastern District of Louisiana joins DOJ Fraud Division, SBA, and SBA OIG in law enforcement surge takedown exceeding $245 million in COVID-19 related loan fraud
- District of New Mexico joins DOJ Fraud Division, SBA, and SBA OIG in surge takedown exceeding $245 million in COVID-era loan fraud
- United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan joins DOJ Fraud Division, SBA, and SBA OIG in surge takedown exceeding $245 million in COVID-era loan fraud
- WDNY joins DOJ Fraud Division, SBA, and SBA OIG in surge takedown exceeding $245 million in COVID-era loan fraud
- Man extradited from Peru pleads guilty to laundering more than $72 million in drug proceeds
- U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida joins DOJ Fraud Division, SBA, and SBA OIG in surge takedown exceeding $245 million in COVID-era loan fraud
- New Jersey woman sentenced to 24 months in prison for role in $9.1 million COVID-19 relief fraud scheme
- Winter Garden woman sentenced to 30 months for COVID relief fraud and failure to file tax returns
- Warren County fraudster sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment
- Former L.A. County Sheriff's Deputy sentenced to nearly 2 years in prison for violating civil rights while providing off-duty security for crypto criminal
Sept. 11
- Dothan tax preparer sentenced to nearly five years in prison for filing false tax returns
- Arrested at airport, man voluntarily returns to Minnesota to face charges of defrauding $1.3 million in Housing Stabilization Services funds
- Texas man sentenced to prison for promoting abusive tax shelter
- Illinois woman sentenced to prison for role in wire fraud conspiracy
Sept. 10
- Nationwide alcohol distributor agrees to pay over $12 million to resolve federal investigation into bribery and false invoicing practices
- Jamaican national sentenced to eight years for role in sweepstakes fraud targeting older Americans
- Hawaii couple sentenced to prison for roles in nationwide tax refund fraud conspiracy
- Seven, including El Salvadoran national, sentenced to federal prison for armed drug trafficking ring crossing state lines
- RAD Diversified REIT co-founders indicted for stealing funds from their employees’ benefit plans
- Two men, including a Mexican national, indicted for drug trafficking conspiracy
Sept. 9
- Homeland Security Task Force investigation leads to eight-year sentence for leader of trafficking organization
- Gregg County tax preparer charged with federal violations related to falsified tax returns
- Couple in Feeding Our Future fraud scheme sentenced to 97 months’ imprisonment
- Second cocaine trafficker receives prison sentence in Homeland Security Task Force investigation
- HSTF investigation leads to Rio Rico man being sentenced to 60 months in prison for drug and money laundering conspiracies
- Florida enforcement leaders hold inaugural meeting of the Florida Anti-fraud Task Force to enhance federal-state cooperation to detect, investigate, and prosecute fraud
- Columbia business owner sentenced for fraud scheme
- Convictions through guilty pleas and sentencings in Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) prosecutions (Aug. 31 through Sept. 4, 2026)
- Las Vegas man sentenced to 5 years in federal prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine in South Dakota
- Former Navy civilian employee sentenced to 72 months for bribery and tax fraud schemes
Sept. 8
- Restaurant owner pleads guilty to employment tax scheme
- Camden County business owner admits to employment tax fraud
- Husband and wife fraudsters extradited from Jamaica after wife’s failed attempt to flee justice
- New Jersey man pleads guilty to bank fraud conspiracy involving more than $1 million in fraudulent pandemic relief loans
- Singaporean ringleader of $245 million cryptocurrency racketeering enterprise pleads guilty in Washington D.C.
- Oregon man sentenced to 16 months in federal prison for abusing his role at mobile phone store to give customers’ info to criminals
Sept. 4
- Husband and wife sentenced in international property theft scheme
- Owner of tax prep business found guilty of conspiring to defraud the IRS
- Mexican national pleads guilty to laundering more than $4m in drug trafficking proceeds
- Illegal alien from Georgia charged for conspiracy to launder proceeds of $1.3b health care fraud scheme
- Federal fraud charges filed against former Indianapolis daycare operator
- Homeland Security Task Force arrests owner of Southwest Detroit business, “La Posada,” on charges of international money laundering conspiracy
- Raleigh drug ringleader convicted at federal guns and drugs trial
Sept. 3
- Wausau man sentenced to 8 years for wire fraud and money laundering
- Roseville man charged with defrauding employer of over $2.3 million
- U.S. and UK launch first-of-its-kind joint alliance to dismantle global scam centers
- Indian national pleads guilty to role in illegal gambling ring
- Jury convicts Omaha man for distributing methamphetamine
- Fayette County man previously convicted of violating clean water act sentenced to prison for filing false tax return
- Seven charged in $57m tax refund fraud scheme
- Chichester man indicted for operating a $25 million hawala
- Washington County man sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment for wire fraud
- Tampa man sentenced to 46 months in federal prison and ordered to pay over $700,000 to the Internal Revenue Service
- California man indicted and detained for multi-million-dollar COVID-19 loan and commercial loan fraud scheme
- Former SBA and IRS employee sentenced to federal prison for taking bribes in $3.5 million COVID fraud scheme
Sept. 2
- Homeland Security Task Force secures sentences for ten illegal aliens
- Bookkeeper pleads guilty to taking clients’ money but failing to pay taxes on their behalf
- Nevada man sentenced to prison for false tax return schemes
- Beaumont man receives 40-year federal prison sentence as part of Homeland Security Task Force investigation for trafficking methamphetamine in the Eastern District of Texas
- Dallas man receives lengthy federal prison sentence as part of Homeland Security Task Force investigation for trafficking cocaine in the Eastern District of Texas
- Convictions through guilty pleas and sentencings in Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) prosecutions (Aug. 24 through Aug. 28, 2026)
- Eastern District of Texas prosecutes multiple defendants as part of Homeland Security Task Force investigations in August 2026
Sept. 1
- Hampden man pleads guilty to tax evasion
- New Gloucester man sentenced for presenting counterfeit Treasury checks and wire fraud
- Maryland man sentenced for disability benefits scam
- Mexican national sentenced to 13 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine
- Connecticut man going to prison for bank fraud conspiracy
- Founder and CEO of Bay Area real estate investment fund charged in multi-year fraud scheme
- Ellington woman pleads guilty to fraud and tax offenses
- Delco attorney pleads guilty to submitting over $400,000 in sham checks to evade taxes and purchase an electric truck
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