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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.

The leader of an agency overseeing stimulus programs said that Treasury officials had resisted his attempts to investigate fraud in the Paycheck Protection Program.

A Houston tax attorney was charged with helping his client hide $225 million from the IRS, according to the Justice Department.

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.

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.

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.

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.

American International Group Inc. settled a case involving cross-border transactions the government claimed amounted to improper tax shelters.

Robert T. Brockman, a Houston software tycoon, was charged with using a web of Caribbean entities to hide $2 billion in income in what prosecutors called the largest U.S. tax case ever against an individual.

Smith will acknowledge wrongdoing to end a four-year U.S. tax investigation involving assets held in offshore tax havens.