Tax crimes

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.

The Internal Revenue Service is advising taxpayers who received a Form 1099-G for unemployment benefits they never got to contact their state because their identity may have been stolen.

Criminal harvest; going informal; any way you slice it; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

A second hedge-fund trader was named by Danish prosecutors as a defendant in a dividend tax scheme they say defrauded the Nordic country out of 9.6 billion kroner ($1.6 billion).

Drug money; ghosts of a chance; skin games; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation Division issued a warning Thursday about a new wave of COVID-19 scams tied to the latest round of stimulus payments, especially targeting taxpayers in the District of Columbia.

Smells fishy; getting the boot; quit the day job; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Checking out; chairman of the hoard; unlucky Linda; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Sanjay Shah, who founded a London hedge fund that specialized in controversial Cum-Ex trades, was charged by Danish prosecutors in a 9.6 billion-krone ($1.6 billion) tax-fraud probe, according to a person familiar with the case.

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.