Financial crimes

The Internal Revenue Service issued a warning urging taxpayers to beware of scammers calling and emailing them about the stimulus payments they are expecting as a result of last week’s CARES Act.

Quite an education; food for thought; Motion denied; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Dying to steal; just getting behind; apple and the tree; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Businessman Lev Dermen, 53, was found guilty Monday as part of a scheme to cheat the IRS out of $512 million through a program designed to promote clean fuels.

No kidding; Time’s up; jailbird; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Two former Puerto Rico officials, along with the head of an accounting firm and three others, were indicted over allegations of theft, money laundering and wire fraud, escalating federal investigations that have been swirling around the bankrupt U.S. territory.

Papers trail; House of cards; trickle down; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Spook central; short of a grand; a low bar; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

EZ out; Totaled; to the cooler; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Leaders from the service’s Criminal Investigation unit and tax authorities from Australia, the U.K., Canada and the Netherlands met in Australia this week to set priorities in the fight against international tax crimes.

Internal Revenue Service officials said Wednesday they will be visiting approximately 800 taxpayers who earn over $100,000 a year and haven’t filed one or more tax returns in prior years.

The Internal Revenue Service urged tax professionals and taxpayers to use the free, multi-factor authentication feature offered on tax prep software, as nearly two dozen firms reported data thefts so far.

Numbers game; we have a loser; scrapped; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Three accountants share their experiences unearthing fraud.

Frivolous natures; debt of a salesman; tooth and justice; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Bernard Ebbers, the ousted chief executive officer at WorldCom Inc. whose corporate malfeasance led to imprisonment, has died. He was 78.

Very deconstructive; snowboard job; matters of discipline; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Perfect mess; package deal; bad medicine; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

A little off the top; noted; over the Edge; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

A former Internal Revenue Service analyst persuaded a judge not to send him to prison for leaking confidential government records on suspicious banking activity by President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen.