A former IRS employee, who helped taxpayers experiencing problems resulting from identity theft, has pleaded guilty to stealing identities and orchestrating a tax-fraud scheme involving up to $1.5 million in bogus income tax returns, federal authorities announced.

Nakeisha Hall, 39, on Monday entered her guilty pleas during a hearing before U.S. District Judge Karon O. Bowdre to theft of government funds, aggravated identity theft, unauthorized access to a protected computer and conspiracy to commit bank fraud and mail fraud affecting a financial institution.

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A resident of Bowie, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to federal charges for his involvement in a far-reaching identity theft and tax fraud scheme in which he assisted in the filing of fraudulent federal income tax returns seeking more than $4.4 million in refunds, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips for the District of Columbia, Special Agent in Charge Thomas Jankowski of the Washington Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Inspector in Charge David G. Bowers of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service’s (USPIS) Washington, D.C., Division and Assistant Inspector General for Investigations John L. Phillips of the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

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A major identity theft and fraud ring has been busted after allegedly stealing nearly $1 million. The Colorado Attorney General’s Office says the elaborate scam set up phony businesses and then created employees for the businesses who filed for unemployment benefits.

Zanthia Woodard, 46, was the target of a CBS4 Investigation in 2014. The Attorney General’s Office calls Woodard the alleged mastermind of the fraud ring that cheated federal and state agencies out of nearly $1 million.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thirty-two members and associates of a Long Beach street gang have been indicted on charges of operating a $14.3 million identity theft and tax fraud scheme, authorities said Monday.

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AUSTIN (KXAN) — A former Internal Revenue Service worker pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges in connection with a stolen identity refund fraud scheme. Police said Kenneth Goheen, 57, admitted to obtaining personal information from Individual Tax Identification Number applicants and using it to file more than 50 fraudulent tax returns between March 2013 and January 2015.

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Four alleged members of an international organized crime group committing identity theft and credit card fraud across the United States are in custody after setting up shop in a Bensalem motel, police said.

They were caught after a Michigan man complained that a motel room at the Comfort Inn on the 2700 block of Lincoln Highway was rented using his credit card number without his authorization, according to Bensalem police.

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WASHINGTON — An IRS agent from Alabama and his accomplice have been indicted for fraud and identity theft, resulting in thirty charges between the two men for conspiring to file fake tax returns. The indictments are the latest in a string of scandals to rock the agency responsible for collecting federal taxes and enforcing Obamacare.

The IRS agent, 32 year-old Donald Centreal Smith of Birmingham, and his accomplice, 33 year-old Gary G. Collins of Odenville, each face one count of conspiracy, nine counts of filing false or fraudulent claims, two counts of theft of public monies, nine counts of wire fraud, and nine counts of aggravated identity theft.

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A former Army private stationed at Fort Riley has been indicted on federal charges of fraud and identity theft involving fellow soldiers.

Barry Grissom, the U.S. attorney for Kansas, said Todd M. Newbrough was charged Wednesday in U.S. District Court at Topeka with four counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud, four counts of aggravated identity theft and one count of computer fraud.

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