Investigative Press Releases
Friday, July 10, 2020
Contact: Special Agent Matthew Amsden
Public Information Officer
IRS Criminal Investigation
60 Quaker Lane, 4th Floor, Suite 68
Warwick, RI 02886
(401) 826-4726
Matthew.amsden@ci.irs.gov
Friday, July 10, 2020
PROVIDENCE — The Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Rhode Island reminded taxpayers of the July 15 filing and payment deadline and warned against an increase in tax and COVID-19 scams.
Friday, July 10, 2020
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – July 10, 2020 - A Tennessee healthcare executive was sentenced to 42 months in prison yesterday for his role in an approximately $4 million kickback scheme.
Friday, July 10, 2020
A federal grand jury for the Southern District of Illinois has returned on indictment charging
Brittany Freeman, 27, of Johnston City, Illinois (Williamson County), with four counts of theft of
mail by a postal service employee.
Freeman worked as a mail carrier for the Goreville post office. The indictment charges that she
stole over $500 worth of rebate checks sent by Menards to customers along her mail routes in
February and March, 2020.
Friday, July 10, 2020
Friday, July 10, 2020
BOSTON – An Uxbridge man and Maryland woman were charged with conspiring to defraud the government of thousands of dollars from 2014 to 2018.
Thomas Bouchard, 57, of Uxbridge, Mass., was arrested yesterday, and Chantelle Boyd, 50, of Woodsboro, Md., was arrested on Monday, July 6, 2020, and charged with one count of conspiracy and 10 counts of theft of government funds. Boyd was also charged with false declarations before the grand jury.
Friday, July 10, 2020
The Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Oklahoma today reminded taxpayers of the July 15 filing and payment deadline and warned against an increase in tax and COVID-19 scams.
Friday, July 10, 2020
Friday, July 10, 2020
PHILADELPHIA – First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that physician assistant Sarah Malstrom will pay $25,000 to resolve allegations that she received kickbacks from the company formerly named Aqua Pharmaceuticals, in order to incentivize Malstrom to prescribe Aqua’s dermatology drugs.
Friday, July 10, 2020
SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO – U.S. Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow and Michael J. De Palma, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Miami Field Office, made the announcement today in an effort to remind taxpayers of the July 15 filing and payment deadline and warned against an increase in tax and COVID-19 scams.