prison sentences

Taxes December 23, 2025 

Keith Altamirano, 52, of Vancouver, WA, is already in prison for second-degree attempted murder of his son.

Accounting December 4, 2025 

Quintin Flanagin, 45, of Colby, KS, was sentenced to 48 months in prison on Dec. 3 after admitting this past summer to defrauding clients, who were his family members, and using part of the money to build a home.

Jason Bramwell

Accounting November 26, 2025 

Anthony Moon, 44, of Savannah, MO, was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison Monday after he embezzled money from a local school district to purchase Kansas City Chiefs tickets and other personal expenses.

Accounting October 2, 2025 

Harold Dotson, 54, of Gaithersburg, MD, was also sentenced to three years of supervised release, including six months of home confinement, and ordered to pay $24.8 million in restitution for submitting fraudulent CARES Act loan applications.

Accounting September 12, 2025 

Dejan Karlovic admitted to stealing nearly $585,000 from Jericho Road Community Health Center in Buffalo while working as a senior grants accountant for the nonprofit organization.

Taxes August 25, 2025 

Kim Brown, 40, of Augusta, GA, pleaded guilty to two counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation and filing of false income tax returns, according to the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Georgia.

Jason Bramwell

Accounting August 6, 2025 

William Arthur Clawson—who defrauded clients by using their cash payments, which were intended to pay their income taxes, for his own personal expenses—was given a 24-month prison sentence on July 31.

Jason Bramwell

Accounting July 29, 2025 

A New Milford accountant was sentenced on July 29 to three years in prison for stealing tens of thousands of dollars from clients, resolving three cases against him.

Small Business June 16, 2025 

Malaina Chapman, 38, of Hialeah, FL, who learned the system from the inside and cashed in on pandemic loans for herself and others was sentenced June 13 to over four years in prison for committing fraud.

SEC May 19, 2025 

Eric Council Jr., a 26-year-old resident of Huntsville, AL, pleaded guilty earlier this year to conspiracy to commit aggravated identity theft and access device fraud.

IRS May 9, 2025 

Anthony Alford, 46, of Kansas City, who was accused of making a false gun threat that set off an active shooter lockdown at the Kansas City IRS campus last year, has been sentenced to three years in prison.

General News March 19, 2025 

Paul Victor Yother, 44, pleaded guilty March 13 to four counts of sexual abuse of a child under the age of 12, and 11 counts of unlawful possession of obscene matter. He was sentenced to 50 years in prison.