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The Justice Department announced a nationwide tax fraud crackdown Wednesday involving 76 defendants and more than $490 million in estimated intended tax losses, including new charges against 31 individuals accused of schemes targeting American taxpayers.
The first-ever National Tax Enforcement Surge brought together 35 U.S. attorneys’ offices and IRS criminal investigators over approximately six weeks. The operation resulted in 23 new charging actions involving more than $350 million in alleged intended tax losses, while another 45 defendants were involved in trials, guilty pleas and sentencings associated with nearly $140 million in estimated intended losses.
“Every dollar stolen through tax fraud is a dollar taken from the American people,” Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a news release “What we uncovered during this concentrated…
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