Fifteen people and five businesses are facing charges for their alleged involvement in a $5.5 million call center scheme out of India that defrauded more than 2,000 Americans.
Michael Avenatti helped the president while trying to remove him, but House Republicans hurt the president while trying to protect him.
Michael Avenatti told CNN: “I’m all for freedom of the press and open access. But everything has its limits. My personal financial dealings and that of an old law firm are of no relevance and, you know, were not going to be leveraged by other people who are trying to get famous and take advantage of the situation.”
Equifax has revealed that passport details and driver’s licenses were also stolen on top of a wide array of other information in the massive 2017 data breach the company suffered.
Portions of the IRS online tax return system have gone down, creating delays before the Tuesday filing deadline.
U.S. tax authorities have subpoenaed information from lenders and investors in real estate projects managed by the family of White House adviser Jared Kushner, according to a Bloomberg News report citing a “person familiar with the matter.”
California marijuana farmers that obtained legal cultivation licenses under Proposition 64 are already complaining to the Humboldt County Supervisors that taxes could bankrupt them.
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), a leading conservative member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, told Breitbart News Daily on Wednesday that he believes that there is an interconnectivity between various high-profile Barack Obama-era scandals and the latest revelations about corruption at the Department of Justice and FBI.
Z Street’s founder said of the IRS scandal: “I very much doubt ours and the Tea Party cases would have settled had this new administration not been in office.”
California marijuana retailers will be toting huge amounts of cash to the Franchise Tax Board and the IRS, as pot still is too illegal for banks to inhale.
Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino, of MTV’s ‘Jersey Shore’ fame, is facing up to five years in federal prison after pleading guilty to felony tax evasion, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday.
Homeschoolers in the United States are debating whether an amendment to the GOP tax reform bill that would expand 529 College Savings Plans to allow use of tax-exempt funds to pay for homeschooling expenses will put homeschoolers at risk of federal oversight.
The most important result on Tuesday was Maine’s vote to expand Medicaid under Obamacare — the first time voters have directly approved that policy.
Four hundred sixty nine different plaintiffs in two class-action lawsuits over Obama-era IRS harassment settled with the Department of Justice Thursday, bringing to a close a dark chapter in the IRS’s history.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) “does not expect” the recent Equifax data breaches to have a “major effect” because they believe a “significant” number of victims already had their personal information stolen.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has suspended a contract previously awarded to Equifax following an alleged second data breach, according to a report.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has awarded Equifax a $7.25 million fraud-prevention contract following the company’s massive security breach which affected over 140 million consumers.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Bill Johnson (R-OH) says Republicans and Democrats need to stop politicizing tax reform and work in favor of America’s working class to pass legislation that will take the financial burden off of small businesses.
Republicans slammed the Friday announcement by President Donald Trump’s justice department that it will not investigate the official who allegedly oversaw the IRS’ secret sabotage of Americans’ civic groups before the 2012 election.
The Internal Revenue Service’s practice of social media data mining to determine audit targets could violate federal law on data collection, according to a report.
The Inspector General for Tax Administration has discovered that under Commissioner John Koskinen, the Internal Revenue Service re-hired 212 employees it had previously fired for offenses including tax evasion, theft, and abuse of taxpayer data.
Documents made public seems to show that boxing great Floyd Mayweather owes the IRS $22.5 Million on his 2015 taxes.
On Thursday, a jury held that a Fifth Avenue office building in Manhattan violates U.S. sanctions against the government of Iran, and federal prosecutors can seize it. Since the building in question is valued at up to a billion dollars, its seizure constitutes the largest civil forfeiture in American history.
A top politician who at one time served as the Secretary of Finance for the Mexican State of Tabasco is now wanted in the U.S. on money laundering charges. While the man remains in Mexico, federal agents arrested his wife this week in Houston.
Obamacare will go into a death spiral on May 22 if the Trump administration chooses not to continue fighting in court to preserve cost-premium subsidies that were ruled illegal last year.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump will sign an executive order protecting free speech and religious liberty for American religious groups, including the Little Sisters of the Poor.
More than 140 gang members are facing federal charges after a multi-agency operation netted dozens of arrests over the last 75 days, the Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of California announced Wednesday.
Bruce Springsteen once told his audience that it matters not “which side of the 99 percent you’re on but on which side of history you’re on.” But the one percenter confessed to Tom Hanks this weekend that he long stood on the wrong side of the IRS.
The chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee called on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to review evidence that Lois Lerner “broke the law to target Americans for their political beliefs.” The request comes after the DOJ refused, under the Obama Administration’s leadership, to investigate allegations of wrongdoing by the former IRS Exempt Organizations Division director.
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” host Chris Matthews wondered if the IRS could state that President Trump isn’t really under audit, and stated that it “would be a good leak” if someone at the IRS leaked that Trump isn’t
While Americans are scrambling to meet the 2016 tax filing deadline, the number of illegal immigrants submitting their returns in the present climate are reportedly down significantly. Also, a Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) report exposing significant refund fraud has “most certainly contributed to it,” says the taxpayer advocate department within the IRS.
The administrative state gone wild! IRS agents targeted the innocent because it was easier and quicker than going after real criminals.
An Eau Claire, WI police officer got a call from a man pretending to be an IRS agent accusing the officer of fraud, so he decided to return the call and have the conversation filmed. In the video, the scammer
Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Lou Barletta announced Tuesday he will not support the American Health Care Act, crafted by Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) to prevent the collapse of the Obamacare exchanges.
Agents with the FBI and the IRS raided the private law practice of Texas State Senator Carlos Uresti (D-San Antonio) on Thursday morning.
