MINNEAPOLIS – United States Attorney Daniel N. Rosen announced today that a Minneapolis father and son pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States on October 9 and October 1, respectively. These pleas are part of nationwide enforcement actions led by the Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division, Internal Revenue Service, and Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation targeting tax fraud and related offenses. The District of Minnesota was a key participant in this surge effort.
The father also pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Between early September and today, the National Fraud Enforcement Division’s Tax Section and U.S. Attorneys’ Offices across the country participated in the Department’s 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…