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A Fort Lauderdale, Florida resident was indicted today for tax evasion, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.

On April 4th, a federal judge barred Irving Brown Sr., a retired Chicago Fire Department captain, from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced. After a two-day bench trial in February, the court found that Brown Sr. of Chicago, Illinois, prepared and filed fraudulent tax returns for his customers, including Chicago Fire Department firefighters.

Hundreds of Tai Ji Men dizi accused the three judges, Chiu-Hua Lin, Jin-Chang Zhung, and Shyi-Shyan Liu, of the case at the Taichung District Court of crime of law-bending judgment.

A federal jury sitting in Oakland, California convicted Janel McDonald on March 30th, for her role in a conspiracy to cash stolen and fraudulently obtained U.S. Treasury checks, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Brian J. Stretch for the Northern District of California.

The owner and operator of five Houston-area home health agencies pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud Medicare and the State of Texas’s Medicaid-funded Home and Community-Based Service and Primary Home Care programs of more than $17 million. He also pleaded guilty to conspiring to launder money. These health care programs provided qualified individuals with in-home attendant and community-based services that are known commonly as “provider attendant services” (PAS). This case marks the largest PAS fraud case charged in Texas history.

A former vice president of finance for Bankrate Inc., a publicly traded financial services and marketing company headquartered in New York City, was charged in an indictment filed for his alleged participation in a complex accounting and securities fraud scheme, on March 28.

A federal grand jury sitting in St. Louis, Missouri, on March 29, returned a superseding indictment charging a St. Louis resident for his role in a sophisticated stolen identity refund fraud scheme and other federal offenses, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Carrie A. Costantin for the Eastern District of Missouri.

A general sessions judge was charged in a federal criminal complaint with attempting to obstruct justice through bribery and witness tampering, on March 28th.

A former U.S. Congressman and one of his associates were indicted on March 28 for their roles in orchestrating a scheme to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from charitable foundations and the individuals who ran those foundations. Some of the funds were allegedly used to illegally finance the politician’s campaigns for public office and to pay for his personal expenses and those of his associates.

The owner of former payroll company, on March 27th, Innovative Payroll Services LLC (IPS) admitted he operated a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme through his company, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.