NC tax preparers plead guilty in $25M
pandemic-relief fraud scheme
Posted By: FlyRight, 6/25/2026 2:32:42 PM
North Carolina tax return preparation business owner has joined seven former colleagues in pleading guilty to a scheme that sought almost $25 million in false COVID-19 relief tax refunds. The Justice Department on Wednesday announced that the company’s owner, Nejlai Mitchell, filed fake tax returns based on a paid sick and family leave credit — which Congress passed to help struggling businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic — from April 2022 through May 2023. The IRS paid out approximately $13.9 million in false tax refund claims due to the conspiracy, which operated out of the North Carolina cities of Lumberton and Hope Mills, according to documents and statements presented in court.
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North Carolina tax return preparation business owner has joined seven former colleagues in pleading guilty to a scheme that sought almost $25 million in false COVID-19 relief tax refunds.
The Justice Department on Wednesday announced that the company’s owner, Nejlai Mitchell, filed fake tax returns based on a paid sick and family leave credit — which Congress passed to help struggling businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic — from April 2022 through May 2023.
The IRS paid out approximately $13.9 million in false tax refund claims due to the conspiracy, which operated out of the North Carolina cities of Lumberton and Hope Mills, according to documents and statements presented in court.
The former Los Angeles fire chief is suing Mayor Karen Bass for defamation related to the devastating Palisades Fire.
Kristin Crowley was removed from her position on Feb. 21, 2025, weeks after the blaze began. The fire, which hit the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles and nearby communities such as Malibu, burned 23,448 acres, destroyed 6,833 structures and killed 12 people.
In the lawsuit, Crowley claims Bass made and continues to make false statements about her and has damaged her reputation. Bass demoted Crowley but did not fire her from the department, where Crowley continues to work as an assistant chief in the Valley Bureau.
Another democratic socialist, pro-Palestine, pro-Iran candidate has won in New York City. Unlike Mamdani, she is more candid. Her organization openly states that it seeks the destruction of Western civilization.
Darializa Avila Chevalier, 32, defeated five-term incumbent Adriano Espaillat, 71, chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, in the Democratic primary for NY-13 on June 23. A Columbia University alumna, Muslim, and current PhD candidate at CUNY, Avila Chevalier is a member of the NYC Democratic Socialists of America, endorsed by UAW Region 9A and Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and advances to the November general election in what is a safe Democratic seat.
In back-to-back rulings this week, two federal judges dealt significant blows to separate pillars of President Trump's election-integrity agenda, concluding that both Executive Order 14248 ("Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections") and one of the initiative's principal implementation mechanisms ran afoul of federal law.
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MLB Commissioner Responds to Senator Josh
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Major League Baseball Commissioner Robert Manfred responded to Missouri Senator Josh Hawley’s congressional investigation on Friday, doubling down on the MLB’s decisions to bar players from wearing Bible verses on their uniforms while allowing pride-themed uniforms to be worn. Manfred further blamed the San Francisco Giants for “inadequate” communication with its players for the recent controversy.
This comes after Giants starting pitcher Landen Roupp and relief pitchers JT Brubaker and Ryan Walker stood up to the League’s liberal agenda being foisted upon players and fans by writing verses from Genesis on their hats.
Sir Keir Starmer wants to force social networks and video platforms to make BBC content more prominent.
Under plans to further restrict private media firms, news from public service broadcasters would be given priority to fight “disinformation”.
The proposals will set Sir Keir on a collision course with tech giants already frustrated by his under-16s social media ban.
The Government is expected to start a consultation this week on the rules, which would force platforms such as Facebook and YouTube to boost content from the BBC, ITV and Channel 4.
Sources at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport said the rules would make it easier for Britons to “discover trusted news sources” online.
As the Department of Health and Human Services continues to commemorate Men’s Health Month, the department’s assistant secretary for health told the Daily Signal that President Donald Trump’s administration is focused on revitalizing fatherhood for the benefit of the nation.
“We want to make a positive impact on men’s health during this administration,” Adm. Brian Christine told the Daily Signal. “In this administration, men matter.”
Christine’s remarks come as the United States is witnessing a historic decline in men’s suicide rates, obesity, hypertension, and depression, while also seeing a rise in fertility and testosterone levels.
On her final day as director of national intelligence Friday, Tulsi Gabbard released damning declassified evidence accusing Dr. Anthony Fauci of causing the COVID-19 pandemic, engaging in a cover-up about the virus origins in China and lying to Congress about it.
Perhaps most disturbingly, he was assisted by the US intelligence community.
“It’s time you know the truth,” said Gabbard when she released “never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins,
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As U.S.-Iran negotiations got off the rocky start in Switzerland, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin revealed Sunday that Tehran tried to sneak several military-tied operatives into the United States with its World Cup soccer team.
Mullin said more than half the soccer representatives Iran tried to bring with its team had ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and that even a man posting Saturday as their soccer federation president was tied to the extreme military group and then I've entered ahead of Sunday's match.
"The guy that tried to get on the plane yesterday had direct ties to the IRGC,” the Homeland chief told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo.
In a statement, the IRGC Navy “warned ships not to approach the waterway,” adding that the ships’ “safety would be at risk if they did so,” NBC News reported.
“Iran’s top joint military command” explained that the closing of the Strait of Hormuz was in response to “breaches of commitments by” the United States and Israel, according to the outlet:In response to the statement from the IRGC, Capt. Tim Hawkins, who serves as a spokesperson for the U.S. Central Command, explained that Iran did “not control” the strait,“Iran does not control the Strait of Hormuz,” Hawkins said. “Traffic continues to flow,
“DEPORTATION FLIGHTS AT A RECORD HIGH,” DHS wrote in a post on X, replying to a post in which the Washington Examiner shared that nearly 900,000 illegal aliens have been deported since the start of the Trump administration in January 2025.
DHS added that the American people gave the Trump administration a “mandate to arrest and remove criminal illegal aliens,” adding that under President Donald Trump and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, the agency would “continue to deliver.”
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