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BILLINGS — The owner of the Feedlot Steakhouse in Shepherd admitted to allegations Tuesday that he received approximately $75,000 in a COVID relief loan from the Small Business Administration (SBA)
October 14, 2021 — Jimmie Lucero of Denver, Colorado pled guilty on October 8, 2021 to aiding and assisting in the preparation of false and fraudulent Federal Income Tax Returns before U.S. District Court Judge Daniel D. Domenico, IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Andy Tsui announced. Lucero was indicted on May 18, 2021 and is scheduled to be sentenced on February 3, 2022.
A Gypsum man has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison after he set up a fake church to avoid paying taxes on what he said was a $250,000 charitable contribution to the organization. Trenton Switzer, 40, of Gypsum was sentenced this week to pay a restitution fee of $241,964, in addition to the prison time, after pleading guilty to tax fraud on April 26 of this year, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice. “Mr. Switzer’s claim to be the pastor of a fake church he created to evade his taxes landed him in a real prison,” Acting U.S. Attorney Matt Kirsch sai...
Denver — The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Colorado announces that Eber Uriel Perez-Ramirez of Aurora, CO, was sentenced to 10.5 years in federal prison following his prior guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846. According to the plea agreement and court documents, the defendant acted as a lieutenant in a drug trafficking organization from October of 2019 until February 12, 2020, when he was arrested by agents working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation assigned to the Denver O...
In the year since the bill passed, scammers have been taking advantage of it. According to the IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division, the agency investigated more than 350 tax and money laundering cases nationwide, totaling $440 million. Most of the investigations focused on fraudulently obtained loans, credits and payments. “IRS Criminal Investigation’s mission is to support our nation’s tax system, which in turn helps support the priorities outlined in the CARES Act,” said Special Agent in Charge Andy Tsui from the IRS’s Denver Field Office. “Our special agents will use their ...