Receiving notification from the IRS that you are a victim of IRS tax return fraud is something all tax payers dread this time of year. So what should you do when it happens to you? Here are four crucial steps to take to prevent further damage.
Louisville attorney charged with wire fraud and money laundering, could face up to 40 years in prison
Louisville attorney David Cary Ford was criminally charged on federal counts of wire fraud and money laundering on Tuesday. The charges stem from alleged unauthorized withdrawals of nearly $1.7 million from estates for which he was the executor.
Houstonians plead guilty in $13 million health care fraud case
Mkrtich “Mike” Yepremian, 58, of Houston, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud and paying kickbacks to marketers of Medicare and Medicaid patients. Also pleading guilty today was Bompa Mbokoso Mompiere, 56, of Houston, who also pleaded to the conspiracy.
Over the last few weeks, three others have also been convicted – Mike Wilson, 47, Jermaine Doleman, 38, and Eric Johnson, 62, all of Houston. They pleaded guilty to the conspiracy and to committing health care fraud.
According to the factual basis in support of the plea, Yepremian ran several false clinics in Houston and Conroe. Yepremian paid marketers, including Wilson, Doleman and Johnson, to bring patients to the clinics for a battery of diagnostic tests and blood work, regardless of medical need. Yepremian paid the marketers approximately $100 for each patient brought to his clinics. In turn, the marketers paid the patients approximately $50 each.
Dallas man is charged in sale of slain neighbor’s home
DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas man accused of posing as his slain neighbor to sell the dead man’s home has been charged with money laundering and other counts.
Dallas Police Maj. Max Geron tells KXAS-TV (http://bit.ly/1nkAGUK ) that 43-year-old Christopher Brian Colbert was arrested in Los Angeles on Thursday.
US names fourteen major money laundering countries in the region in latest report
WASHINGTON, USA — Fourteen nations in the wider Caribbean have been named by the US as “major money laundering” countries in the 2016 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) released by the US State Department on Wednesday.
Jury convicts former Alaska prosecutor in state’s largest-ever money laundering case
A federal jury has found former municipal prosecutor and Anchorage businessman Mark Avery guilty of three counts of wire fraud totaling $31 million, six counts of money laundering, one count of bank fraud, and one count of making false statements to a back. All counts are felonies. The verdicts are the largest money laundering convictions ever prosecuted in Alaska, according to federal prosecutors.
Trump University fraud claim is revived by court
A New York appeals court has revived a fraud claim against Trump University.
The decision made on Super Tuesday will allow the fraud case filed by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in 2013 to move forward. The state accused Trump University of misleading students into paying for programs they thought came from a licensed university.
Schneiderman claims that more than 5,000 consumers were defrauded out of millions of dollars. He called the decision to move forward with the fraud claim a “clear victory in effort to combat fraud.”
Kansas Workplace Shooting Leaves 4 Dead, 14 Wounded
Three people were killed and 14 wounded in an horrific shooting at a Kansas workplace and two other locations Thursday evening, authorities said.
The shooter, an employee at Excel Industries — one of the scenes — was killed by police, Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton said in a press conference Thursday.
The gunman was identified as 38-year-old Newton resident Cedric Larry Ford, two law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation told ABC News.
Police said the shooter fired from his car and shot people at two nearby locations before unleashing a hail of bullets in the factory, hitting 15 people, and killing three of them.
North Texas men charged in fraud that cost military health system $65M
Two North Texas men were indicted on multiple felonies for their roles in a complex health care fraud conspiracy that caused more than $65 million in losses to TRICARE, the U.S. Dept. of Defense Military Health System, U.S. Attorney John Parker announced in a news release Wednesday.
Richard Robert Cesario, 44, of Plano and John Paul Cooper, 47, of Southlake are each charged with one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, four counts of receipt of illegal remuneration, and six counts of payment of illegal remuneration. They each face up to 60 years in federal prison and $2.5 million in fines for the 11 felony charges they each face.
Former Deschutes Sheriff Captain Indicted For Money Laundering
Bend, Ore. – A former Deschutes County sheriff’s captain is accused of stealing more than $200,000 from the Central Oregon Drug Enforcement Team. Scott Beard was fired Friday after FBI agents took him into custody for theft, money laundering, and passport fraud.
Deschutes County Sheriff Shane Nelson says he became aware of discrepancies in confidential funds managed by Beard back in September, 2015. During the past 5 months, Nelson agreed with the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office to give the federal criminal investigation priority over taking employment action against Beard. That criminal investigation resulted in a federal criminal indictment Wednesday.
Nelson says a transition audit revealed the discrepancies done upon him taking office. These accounts involved investigative funds, which were used by the Central Oregon Drug Enforcement Team and Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office detectives.