Press Releases

An eight-count superseding indictment was unsealed today charging Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi, a dual Iranian-Iraqi national; Mohsen Mohajeri, an Iranian national; and Mohammad Ali al-Hassani, an Iraqi national, with terrorism-related offenses for their activities in support of Kata’ib Hizballah and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), two U.S. designated foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs), including their involvement in nearly 20 attacks and attempted attacks throughout Europe and the United States, and a September 2026 terrorist plot at a British Royal Air Force Base

The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida has permanently barred Juan Humberto Garcia and his tax preparation business, The Tax Master of BVL, Inc., from preparing federal tax returns for others and ordered them to pay $558,520. The court also barred Marcos Yariel Figueroa from preparing federal tax returns for others for two years. 

A New Jersey orthopedic surgeon pleaded guilty to failing to pay over trust fund taxes.

A New Jersey man pleaded guilty today to filing false tax returns for clients that caused an intended loss of $327,647 to the United States.

Alexander Scott Mercurio, 21, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, was sentenced today to 18 years in prison and lifetime supervised release by U.S. District Judge David C. Nye of the District of Idaho for attempting to provide material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization.

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia issued a permanent injunction against tax return preparer Tanja D. Hollis, of Griffin, Georgia, and Hollis’s business, Tanja Tax Preparations, LLC. The injunction bars Hollis from acting as a return preparer, preparing tax returns or assisting others in the preparation of tax returns, engaging in conduct that substantially interferes with the proper administration and enforcement of the internal revenue laws and from promoting any false tax scheme.
 

Abdulhafiz Bahovatdiny, 36, a dual Kazakhstani-Tajikistani citizen made his initial appearance in court in Phoenix, Arizona, today after being extradited from Egypt to face charges for his role in a human smuggling conspiracy.

A Queens man pleaded guilty on Monday to defrauding Medicare and New York State Medicaid of approximately $127 million by billing for medically unnecessary prescription drugs and social adult day care (SADC) services that were not provided.

The U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona last week denied a motion for a preliminary injunction to halt construction of the Hermosa Critical Minerals Project in southeastern Arizona. The project will establish a domestic source of manganese and substantially increase domestic production of zinc, which are essential to the steel used in military vehicles and naval vessels. In battery-grade form, manganese is also essential to the advanced lithium-ion batteries that power unmanned aerial vehicles, radios, and other defense equipment. The United States relies entirely on imports of

The Justice Department today announced that 36 individuals, nine of whom are illegal aliens, have been charged in a multi-state Homeland Security Task Force investigation involving drug trafficking and money laundering that spans international borders.

An Illinois woman was sentenced on Friday to 36 months, two years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $11,130,490 in restitution and a forfeiture money judgment of $1,965,712, for running a multi-million-dollar pandemic assistance and unemployment benefits scheme.

The Justice Department announced today that it has issued two fact sheets to help servicemembers, including those who are returning to civilian life as veterans, avoid unnecessary rent payments and costly fees. The first explains how servicemembers and their dependents can end a residential or business lease on receiving eligible military orders. And the second explains how they can end certain vehicle leases.