Items once owned by infamous Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff are being auctioned off to provide some restitution to victims.

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A Chappaqua-N.Y. based CPA has been sentenced to 33 months in prison for pocketing more than $320,000 of his clients' tax refunds over 11 years, acco...

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The value of a reputation associated with a name was made evident recently when individuals claiming to be from an organization called Coopers & Lybrand tried to sell shares in worthless companies to investors.

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A Redmond, Oregon-based CPA has pleaded guilty to assisting in filing a false tax return on behalf of a client who admitted to running an illegal gambling operation, the Department of Justice announced.

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A Mission, Texas tax preparer has been permanently barred from preparing tax returns for claiming improper credits on customers' federal income tax returns.

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Two California sisters have been sentenced to six years in federal prison for their part in a $31 million scheme to defraud the Internal Revenue Service.

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Odell Folks, of Brooklyn, NY, has been sentenced to prison for his participation in a false tax return scheme. Folks was sentenced to 77 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution of $489,292.

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A federal court has permanently barred Francis Kenneth (Frank) Albert of Sparks, NV, from preparing federal income tax returns for others. The court found that Albert repeatedly engaged in fraudulent or deceptive conduct in preparing returns.

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An IRS employee has been indicted by a federal grand jury for stealing mail that had been delivered to the IRS service facility on Pershing Road.

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"Girls Gone Wild" video producer, Joe Francis, is about to go to court for tax evasion. If convicted, he faces ten years in prison. But now...

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Cruz Salas, an IRS agent who worked at the IRS office in Manhattan, has been accused of engaging in political activities at her office, a violation of the Hatch Act.

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