Tax evasion

Paul Manafort’s former right-hand man, Rick Gates, broke his silence Monday and offered dramatic inside testimony about how wealthy Ukrainian businessmen used offshore accounts and shell companies to pay his boss millions of dollars for political consulting work.

President Vladimir Putin’s offer to help the U.S. investigate alleged Russian election meddling, hailed as an “incredible” gesture by Donald Trump, included the same allegations made by a Kremlin-linked lawyer at a controversial 2016 meeting with top campaign officials of the future president.

Leaders of tax enforcement authorities from the five countries have allied to create the Joint Chiefs of Global Tax Enforcement (or J5), to collaborate in fighting international and transnational tax crimes and money laundering.

The Internal Revenue Service has been leading the charge on investigations of Bitcoin users, with more on the way now that it has access to information from at least 14,000 customers of Coinbase.

There are two types of soccer executives, according to 2011 testimony given by Chuck Blazer, then the highest-ranking American in international soccer: those who take bribes, and those who pay them.

Another client of Swiss financial adviser Beda Singenberger, whose accidental mailing of a list of his American clients helped federal prosecutors build dozens of tax-evasion cases, has been nabbed by the government.

Off by $7 million; iPads and custom sofas; PEO rip-off; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

All in the family; end of a Dream; more flags in Maryland; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Rapper and actor DMX was sentenced to one year in prison for tax fraud for evading taxes from 2010 to 2016.

The decline in the number of IRS criminal investigators has led to a drop in cases sent to the Justice Department.