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The Justice Department, IRS, SEC and CFTC have been probing Binance over the last few years.
February 16 -
U.S. prosecutors charged a French national with defrauding buyers of his "Mutant Ape Planet" non-fungible tokens, alleging he duped investors out of more than $2.9 million in cryptocurrency.
January 6 -
The arrest followed weeks of speculation about the possible misuse of client funds.
December 13 -
Todd and Julie Chrisley, stars of the long-running cable TV series "Chrisley Knows Best," received prison sentences of 12 years and seven years, respectively, on tax evasion and bank fraud charges.
November 22 -
The Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Investigation unit has been working with the Justice Department to uncover billions of dollars in fraud related to pandemic relief programs.
October 20 -
Five current or former Internal Revenue Service employees allegedly submitted false and fraudulent loan applications that collectively sought over $1 million.
October 5 -
The stars of a long-running cable TV series were also found guilty of conspiring to defraud community banks out of more than $30 million in fraudulent loans.
June 8 -
The task force will gather experts in sanctions and export control enforcement, asset forfeiture, money laundering, tax enforcement, and foreign evidence collection.
March 3 -
Most organizations do not fully understand the risks presented by their third-party relationships, let alone request or assess audit results from every third party under contract.
September 17
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Justice made a startling claim in a legal filing that cryptocurrencies are not in all instances property for U.S. tax purposes.
September 1
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Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are asking a federal judge to block the release of his tax returns to Congress, saying Democrats’ pursuit of the documents amounts to political retaliation.
August 4 -
The Justice Department directed the Treasury Department to hand over former President Donald Trump’s tax returns to Congress, a move that means six years of Trump’s personal and business financial information could become public.
July 31 -
A federal jury convicted a former Internal Revenue Service IT specialist on fraud charges for stealing a victim’s identity and using it to buy $58,000 worth of plane tickets, hotel rooms and home-remodeling materials.
July 20 -
Brian Kolfage, whose work with Stephen Bannon to raise money for a U.S.-Mexico border wall resulted in a federal fraud indictment last year, faces new tax fraud charges.
May 7 -
The leader of an agency overseeing stimulus programs said that Treasury officials had resisted his attempts to investigate fraud in the Paycheck Protection Program.
May 3 -
A Houston tax attorney was charged with helping his client hide $225 million from the IRS, according to the Justice Department.
April 16 -
U.S. prosecutors and Internal Revenue Service agents spent four years piercing the veil of secrecy that billionaire money manager Robert F. Smith wove to hide more than $200 million in income.
February 3 -
Attorney General William Barr said he sees no reason to appoint a special counsel to oversee an investigation of President-elect Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, a statement sure to frustrate President Donald Trump and his closest advisers.
December 21 -
The president-elect believes efforts to use his son as a political cudgel amounted to “foul play” amid a federal investigation into Hunter Biden’s tax matters and Republican calls for a special counsel investigation into his foreign dealings.
December 18 -
Intuit Inc., the software company behind TurboTax and QuickBooks, won antitrust approval for its $7.1 billion takeover of personal finance website Credit Karma Inc.
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