Damaris Beltre, a 57-year-old Long Island tax preparer, has been indicted for allegedly defrauding the IRS out of $12 million through a scheme involving false tax returns and fraudulent Payroll Protection Program (PPP) loans from 2021 to 2024. Beltre, who owned and operated Botanica El Poder De San Miguel, L&D Tax & Multi Service Corp, D&L Tax Service, and had ties to Apollo Global Improvements, is accused of using the illicit funds to purchase jewelry, a Honda CRV in June 2020, and a house in the Dominican Republic. Between November 2021 and February 2022, she withdrew approximately $226,000 in cash from accounts under her control. In a separate case, Aylissa Glidewell, a 35-year-old from Kingsport, Tennessee, pleaded guilty in Greeneville to conspiring to commit wire and mail fraud by submitting false claims for COVID-19 employment tax credit refunds and paid sick and family leave credit. Glidewell and her co-conspirators created fake businesses to claim over $3.4 million in fraudulent refunds, of which the IRS paid approximately $1.8 million. Keisy Sosa, a Las Vegas tax preparer who operated National Tax Service since at least 2007, admitted to preparing false income tax returns from 2016 to 2021, causing at least $550,000 in tax loss to the IRS. Sosa included false claims such as dependents, fictitious Schedule A expenses, and Schedule C expenses in the returns she filed. She faces sentencing on June 11, with a maximum statutory penalty of three years in prison. In healthcare fraud, Dehshid 'David' Nourian, a 62-year-old pharmacist from Plano, Texas, was sentenced to over 17 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $405 million for defrauding the Department of Labor through a $145 million scheme involving unnecessary compound creams. From May 2014 to March 2017, Nourian and his co-conspirators, operating pharmacies in Fort Worth and Arlington including Ability Pharmacy and Park Row Pharmacy, paid doctors bribes to prescribe the creams, which were billed at exorbitant rates. The pharmacies received over $90 million in payments and attempted to evade paying $24 million in federal income taxes. Nourian was convicted in November 2023 of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, eight counts of health care fraud, conspiracy to launder money, five counts of money laundering, and conspiracy to defraud the United States. The forfeiture included $395 million in brokerage accounts, over $2 million in bank accounts, real estate in Dallas and Austin worth $8 million, and a BMW luxury vehicle. Maureen Wilson, a 77-year-old from Owings Mills, Maryland, was convicted of 11 criminal charges related to a $20 million insurance fraud scheme. She and her husband altered personal details to defraud life insurance companies and individual investors. Wilson faces sentencing on June 20, with a potential maximum penalty of 20 years in prison for each count of conspiracy and three years in prison for each count of filing a false tax return.