Financial crimes

In a new twist on an old scam, fraudsters are spoofing legitimate IRS phone numbers to demand payment on nonexistent bills.

The embattled retailer's chairwoman appealed for shareholder support for an ongoing investigation into the smoldering wreckage left by the accounting scandal.

A thousand returns and 45 bank accounts; ‘what to write and where to write it’; the Spirit was weak; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Off by $7 million; iPads and custom sofas; PEO rip-off; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The Internal Revenue Service and its partners in the tax industry and state tax authorities issued a warning Monday about a wave of e-mails from cybercriminals purporting to come from “IRS Refunds.”

All in the family; end of a Dream; more flags in Maryland; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Paycheck checkups; give and take; how dumb they can be; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

From the oven to the money market; 38 phony checks in a day; software firm scheme crashes; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Rapper and actor DMX was sentenced to one year in prison for tax fraud for evading taxes from 2010 to 2016.

An accounting manager who allegedly stole more than $1.5 million from her employer has admitted to wire fraud.

The decline in the number of IRS criminal investigators has led to a drop in cases sent to the Justice Department.

Stopped for Speedy; hitting the Breaks; Interior motive; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Scheming from coffee shops; disbarred and behind bars; AOTC on 3,000 returns; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Elizabeth Holmes raised hundreds of millions of dollars from investors on the promise that her medical-testing startup Theranos Inc. would change medicine with a single drop of blood. On Wednesday, securities regulators called her a fraud and forced her to give up the company she built.

Bogus W-2s; dependents, complete with numbers; underreporting supplemental money; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Status guilty; felony charges dropped against New York CPA; sales fails; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

One of Noble Group Ltd.’s largest shareholders has stepped up criticism of the embattled commodity trader, describing losses as “shocking” and warning the billions in red ink will pile more pressure on investors to agree to a controversial debt-for-equity rescue plan that it opposes.

To prosecutors, Hewlett-Packard Co.’s purchase of Autonomy Corp. was akin to buying a Pinto dressed up as a Cadillac.

As the newest cooperator for Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the former Trump campaign aide gives prosecutors a powerful weapon in a tax-related case.

International schemes sought millions; an asset shuffle; time’s up for temp agency; and other highlights of recent tax cases.