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A Florida man had his initial appearance in court after being arrested on an indictment charging him with filing false tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service, on March 6, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan for the Southern District of Florida.

The owner of a North Carolina mental health company was sentenced to prison for the submission of false claims to Medicaid and tax evasion, on March 1, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin for the Middle District of North Carolina.

The owner and operator of First Premier Tax Service, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, tax preparation business and a return preparer working at the business, were charged in connection with a scheme to prepare fraudulent tax returns in order to reduce taxes and inflate federal tax refunds for their clients, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman and U.S. Attorney William McSwain for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

A former U.S. Border Patrol Agent (BPA) was sentenced to 114 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for accepting bribes in return for helping to smuggle illegal drugs into the United States.

The Department of Justice’s U.S. Trustee Program (USTP) has entered into a multi-district settlement agreement with global consulting firm McKinsey & Company, Inc. (McKinsey), resolving disputes over the adequacy of McKinsey’s disclosures of connections in Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases.

A Brooklyn, New York, resident pleaded guilty on Friday to 42 counts of an indictment charging him with 18 counts of wire fraud, 22 counts of aggravated identity theft, one count of conspiring to commit aggravated identity theft, and one count of aiding and assisting the filing of a false tax return, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Richard P. Donoghue for the Eastern District of New York.

A Gaithersburg, Maryland, woman had her initial appearanc on an indictment charging her with ten counts of aiding or assisting in the preparation of false or fraudulent tax returns, one count of mail fraud, and one count of aggravated identity theft, on February 19, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Robert K. Hur of the District of Maryland.

A Pakistani corruption tribunal has indicted the country's opposition leader.

Shahbaz Sharif was indicted Monday in connection with a housing scheme in Lahore.

A Michigan woman, on February 15, pleaded guilty for her role as a patient recruiter in a scheme involving approximately $1.2 million in fraudulent Medicare claims for home health care procured through the payment of kickbacks.

A tax return preparer operating in Irving, Texas, on February 15, pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States and to aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false tax return, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox for the Northern District of Texas.