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Top CI Stories from the Past Week

1. CI to host educational sessions for tax professionals about employee retention credits in February

The sessions are part of a nationwide initiative to ensure that tax professionals have the latest information about ERC claims and understand ERC eligibility criteria. ✅

2. Florida attorney pleads guilty in fraudulent charitable contribution tax scheme

The defendant earned more than $10 million from selling the "Ultimate Tax Plan," but our financial investigators from our Miami Field Office unraveled his case. 🧶

3. Chief Lee joins 'AML Conversations' podcast to talk key CI cases, international collaboration

Chief Lee joins the AML Rightsource team for a podcast to discuss the FY2023 Annual Report, among other topics. 🎙 

4. New Jersey tax preparer admits $4.4 million conspiracy to defraud IRS

The defendant admitted his role in an elaborate scheme that used stolen personal identifying information and fabricated tax returns to bilk the IRS of millions of dollars 💸. 

5. CI honors spouses and partners on National Spouses Day

Everyone knows. ⬇

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CI is the criminal investigative arm of the IRS, responsible for conducting financial crime investigations, including tax fraud, narcotics trafficking, money-laundering, public corruption, healthcare fraud, identity theft and more. CI special agents are the only federal law enforcement agents with investigative jurisdiction over violations of the Internal Revenue Code, obtaining a more than a 90 percent federal conviction rate. The agency has 20 field offices located across the U.S. and 12 attaché posts abroad.