Financial crimes

Budgetary constraints contributed to the continuing decline in caseload.

Fraudster faces charges for soliciting taxpayer info for false returns, plus other highlights of other recent cases.

In this time of great upheaval in our nation’s history, find peace in the things that remain constant—one of them being that someone will always try to use taxes to steal money.

Fake children and other highlights of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

Protect your clients from the Form W-2 email phishing scam that has now evolved beyond the corporate world and is spreading to other types of organizations.

Natural-food supplier that began a probe of its accounting practices last year, fell as much 15 percent after saying the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has opened a formal investigation into the matter.

Ex-American International Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Maurice “Hank” Greenberg admitted to taking part in two deals to make the insurer’s financial condition look better than it was as part of a $9.9 million settlement with New York that has dragged out for almost a dozen years, the state’s top lawyer said.

Corrado Sciolla quits as the fallout from the British phone carrier’s Italian unit spreads.

Using your late mother’s Social Security number for fraud, and other highlights of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

Boaz Schwartz was detained over alleged value-added-tax violations involving the company’s clients, the latest setback in the German firm’s attempts to end years of legal issues and misconduct.

The scheme is now spreading to more organizations beyond corporate America, with schools, restaurants, hospitals and tribal groups now being targeted by cybercriminals.

Federal prosecutors in New York have charged a lawyer who worked for the Internal Revenue Service’s Office of Professional Responsibility in Washington, D.C., with distributing methamphetamine.

Businesses that never existed, students who never went to school, and other highlights from our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

Gavin Patterson sought to distance himself from an accounting scandal that’s rocked the U.K. phone company, pointing the blame squarely on a few rogue employees and removing the head of European operations.

$24,000 in EITC due diligence fines and other highlights from our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

Allegations of embezzlement at the telecommunications company’s Italian unit follow disclosure of a 530 million-pound writedown.

Seven ways to build better client relationships during tax season, and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers this week.

A congressional staffer faces incarceration every weekend for a year, and a Pittsburgh ice rink that didn’t pay its employment taxes.

Seattle-based financial services company agrees to pay a $500,000 penalty to settle charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it improperly performed hedge accounting and later took steps to impede potential whistleblowers.

A medical device maker agrees to settles charges brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission that it improperly booked revenue and made improper payments to doctors at government-owned hospitals in Brazil to increase sales.