Washington CPA Pleads Guilty to Filing False Tax Returns
A Spokane, Washington, certified public accountant pleaded guilty on 26 July to three counts of making and subscribing false corporate income tax returns announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice...
LATAM Airlines Group Resolves Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Investigation and Agrees to Pay $12.75 Million Criminal Penalty
LATAM Airlines Group S.A. (LATAM), a commercial airline company based in Chile, has agreed to pay a $12.75 million criminal penalty in connection with a scheme to pay bribes to Argentine union officials via a false consulting contract with a third-...
Owner of Juvenile Mental Health Facilities Convicted in Bribery Scheme
The owner of two Arkansas mental health companies that provide inpatient and outpatient mental health services to juveniles was found guilty on 21 July of engaging in a scheme to bribe a former deputy director of the Arkansas Department of Human...
Loan Company Employee Sentenced to Prison for Stealing Identities Used to File False Tax Returns
A Montgomery County, Alabama, resident was sentenced to 48 months in prison for her role in a stolen identity refund fraud scheme, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division...
Former New Jersey Attorney General and Chairman of the Port Authority Board of Commissioners Pleads Guilty to Bribery
David Samson, 76, of Aiken, South Carolina, and the former chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, on 14 July pleaded guilty to bribery for using his official authority to pressure the parent company of...
FDA Worker Pleads Guilty to Multimillion Dollar Tax Refund Conspiracy
A Jamaica, New York, resident pleaded on 14 July guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the...
Two Kentucky Women Sentenced to Prison for Tax Refund Fraud Conspiracy
Two Kentucky residents were sentenced to prison after pleading guilty in January to conspiring to defraud the United States with respect to claims, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax...
Virginia Electrician Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Obstruct the IRS
A Cumberland, Virginia, resident pleaded guilty to one count of corruptly endeavoring to impair and impede the due administration of the internal revenue laws, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s...
