Tax Fraud

The job of an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Criminal Investigator is to pursue individuals who break the tax law. So, it is ironic that a Sacramento, California woman, who worked for the IRS Criminal Investigation Division as an investigator, found herself being pursued by...

Not all bank robbers wear a black ski mask and enter through the front doors toting a firearm. Some operate smugly from within the walls of a financial institution, concealing that they are diligently transferring funds to bank accounts they manage. Today’s fraudster is a former...

Criminals go to great lengths to engineer fraud schemes that are undetectable. The owner of a Honolulu, Hawaii-based engineering services firm and his accountant carried out what they thought to be a well-designed plan to divert money that was intended for federal employment and income taxes...

A U.S. postal worker in Columbus, Georgia was recently convicted by a federal jury for his part in a stolen identity tax refund conspiracy. (The fraudster worked as a mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), but moonlighted as an identity refund fraudster.)...

The saying, “Nothing is certain except for death and taxes,” is an undisputed truth recognized by nearly everyone. If you owe money to the IRS, they may work with you on late filing or to create a payment schedule, but make no mistake, they...

The U.S. Tax Code is complicated, so it’s easy to understand how some individual taxpayers may inadvertently fail to comply with the tax law as defined by the IRS. (That’s why many people run to the nearest tax preparer to dump several inches of financial paperwork...

Warning to all readers: this blog post is cheesy. Today’s fraudster used all types of cheese plus lettuce, tomato, hot peppers, olives, pickles and deli meat to commit more than half a million dollars in tax fraud. (It’s possible that you may crave a sub sandwich...

According to the 2018 Pizza Power Report, the U.S. pizza market is worth $45.1 billion, with about $18.5 billion in revenue coming from independent operators. (As you might guess, competition is steep between the 75,243 pizzerias located across the nation.) The report also mentions that in 2017,...

From gridiron star to businessman to prison inmate. That is the unlikely journey of a former Florida State University (FSU) football standout who was indicted on federal charges of filing false tax returns through his tax-preparation business. Kenneth Alexander, a starting linebacker...

As today’s fraud drama unveils, we see a cast of unscrupulous characters that include two brothers, an office billing manager, a licensed nurse practitioner, and an individual who is an expert at forging medical treatment notes (I didn’t know that was a “thing”.) The...