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.
Accounting December 3, 2025
Stephen Hochberg, 77, who was an accounting and real estate executive in Sudbury, MA, was recently charged by the feds and has agreed to plead guilty to perpetrating the multi-year scheme.
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 November 17, 2025
A jury in federal court on Nov. 5 convicted Melodie Turner—the bookkeeper for All In Restaurant Group, which owns the restaurants Boku and Publico—of one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering.
Taxes November 12, 2025
Federal officials arrested Dana Williamson on Nov. 12 in a public corruption probe that includes multiple charges of bank and wire fraud, and accuses her of filing false tax returns.
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 August 14, 2025
James Anthony Kroger, a former tax and accounting professor at Gustavus Adolphus College, was convicted on one count of wire fraud that accused him of embezzling more than $670,000 from a Wyoming-based real estate company.
Accounting August 12, 2025
Joshua Mandel, 46, of Woodland Hills, CA, who is accused of using the funds to stay at Las Vegas hotels and socialize with adult film actresses, was charged with six counts of wire fraud.
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.
Taxes June 13, 2025
The lawyer who represented adult film star Stormy Daniels in her court battles against President Donald Trump, was resentenced June 12 to 11 years in prison for dodging taxes and stealing millions of dollars from clients.
Taxes February 28, 2025
A Florida man pleaded guilty today to orchestrating a nearly decade-long scheme to promote an illegal tax shelter and commit wire fraud. He also pleaded guilty to assisting in the preparation of false tax returns for tax shelter clients.