Financial crimes

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.

Steinhoff International Holdings NV lost a case against a former business partner related to how it reported financials for 2016, the first major legal setback for the global retailer as it battles an accounting scandal.

HSBC Holdings Plc said it could face penalties exceeding $1.5 billion stemming from multiple investigations into claims that its Swiss private bank unit helped clients evade paying taxes.

Bighorn to the big house; rotten apple; in Dutch; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The Internal Revenue Service warned taxpayers Tuesday to beware of a quickly proliferating scam involving erroneous tax refunds being deposited in their bank accounts, after a data breach on their tax preparers' computers gives them access to sensitive client information.

A Florida CPA was sentenced in federal court in Boston for multiple counts of tax fraud and obstructing the Internal Revenue Code.

The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners appointed a new CEO and president, Bruce Dorris, succeeding longtime leader Jim Ratley, who will be retiring.

The Internal Revenue Service, fresh off its success in uncovering U.S. assets hidden in Swiss banks, has assigned elite criminal agents to investigate whether Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are being used to cheat the taxman.

Eighteen months, guaranteed; former CPA, current inmate; trust them not; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The fraud trial of three former Tesco Plc executives was halted when one of them, ex-U.K. Chief Financial Officer Carl Rogberg, had a heart attack days before the jury was due to begin deliberations.

An ex-math teacher turned Marseilles piano-bar manager who claimed links to Corsica’s underworld allegedly spearheaded a 385 million-euro ($478 million) tax scam and spent part of the proceeds on Beverly Hills real estate.