Financial crimes

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.

The value of different color pens to tax fraudsters, and other highlights from our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

A tax preparer charged with video voyeurism, as well as some more run-of-the-mill false medical and dental expenses in this week’s roundup of (loosely) tax-related cases.

Stealing from Toys for Tots, inflated refunds, Honduran birth certificates and more from our favorite recent cases.

Kentucky-based wire and cable maker is resolving allegations by the SEC and the Justice Department that it violated internal control requirements and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

In its annual report to Congress, the SEC acknowledged that fiscal year 2016 was historic for fraud tipsters.

Teaching your nieces to file false returns; thousands of gallons of fake gas purchases; and other highlights of our favorite recent cases.

A roundup of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

The U.K. Serious Fraud Office dropped its case against former Tesco Plc group commercial director Kevin Grace without charges, a sign the prosecutor may be getting close to ending its probe into accounting practices that caused the grocer to overstate its profit by as much as 326 million pounds ($407 million).

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

The IRS and state tax agencies are warning tax professionals of the continuing threat from cybercriminals.