Tax crimes

Ooo, the pain; off the market; a lower calling; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The Criminal Investigation Division is in a nostalgic mood, releasing a retrospective this week of its top five cases of the year through its Twitter handle, @IRS_CI.

Devil’s in the details; the court date; smackdown; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Folded; they didn’t need to know; sentence guaranteed; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Top boss no more; wrong slide of the law; the run’s over; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Busted; ‘an undercover agent or anything;’ dastardly deeds; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Island girls; five-year mission; nurse malpractitioner; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Drug money; Phoenix descending; stepping down; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation unit has been initiating fewer investigations of abusive tax return preparers this past year, while also recommending fewer prosecutions, and seeing fewer indictments and prison sentences this year.

What a POS; bad bet; too sick to go to prison; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

What a steel; there go the judge; children’s books; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Spreading the theft around; re-routed refunds; AIG loses, mostly; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Gone Pro’s; various ways to fraud; oxymoron; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

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.

Three defaults and you’re out; scheme of several years; misstep by misstep; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

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

Lost Horizon; crimes of Misdemeanor; Strachans plea; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

German lawmakers have called it the greatest tax heist in history.

Elusive cybersecurity pioneer John McAfee was arrested in Spain for tax evasion in the U.S.

Robert T. Brockman was just putting the finishing touches on a new private equity fund when worrisome news arrived. Law enforcement agents had raided the home of a tax lawyer in Texas who had worked for him.