{"id":5936,"date":"2026-10-14T21:09:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T02:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/14\/dojs-fraud-division-irs-and-irs-ci-expose-more-than-490m-in-tax-fraud-in-national-tax-enforcement-surge\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T21:09:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T02:09:46","slug":"dojs-fraud-division-irs-and-irs-ci-expose-more-than-490m-in-tax-fraud-in-national-tax-enforcement-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/14\/dojs-fraud-division-irs-and-irs-ci-expose-more-than-490m-in-tax-fraud-in-national-tax-enforcement-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ\u2019s Fraud Division, IRS, and IRS-CI Expose More than $490M in Tax Fraud in National Tax Enforcement Surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 October 14, 2026 (STL.News) DOJ \u2013 The Justice Department\u2019s National Fraud Enforcement Division (Fraud Division), along with the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division, today announced a nationwide series of enforcement actions targeting tax fraud. Between early September and today, the National Fraud Enforcement Division\u2019s Tax Section and U.S. Attorneys\u2019 Offices across the country participated in the Department\u2019s first-ever National Tax Enforcement Surge. The surge of nationwide resources resulted in prosecutorial actions against 76 defendants whose alleged and proven crimes intended an estimated loss of revenue to the federal government of more than $490,000,000. <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/s4sAQPXj0MU\/maxresdefault.webp)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DOJ announces charges in FIRST nationwide tax fraud enforcement operation\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s4sAQPXj0MU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> \u201cEvery<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/dojs-fraud-division-irs-and-irs-ci-expose-more-than-490m-in-tax-fraud-in-national-tax-enforcement-surge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 October 14, 2026 (STL.News) DOJ \u2013 The Justice Department\u2019s National Fraud Enforcement Division (Fraud Division), along with the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division, today announced a nationwide series of enforcement actions targeting tax fraud. Between early&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5938,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936\/revisions\/5938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}