IRS Criminal Investigation press releases (~7,500 cases)

Dataset · US Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division · source URL ↗

Every IRS Criminal Investigation press release from August 2021 to present — tax fraud, money laundering, drug trafficking, PPP/COVID fraud, crypto fraud, identity theft, embezzlement, bank fraud, Ponzi schemes, child exploitation. Each record auto-categorized + $ amount extracted + state derived from title. Pairs with `doj_press_releases`, `doj_fca_settlements`, and `hhs_oig_enforcement` for the full federal financial-crimes prosecution panorama. **Pipeline crack**: irs.gov is Akamai-protected; cracked via tls_client Chrome 124 TLS impersonation. Walks ~56 month-year archive pages.

Source organization
US Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division
License / terms
Coverage
~7,500 releases
Latest local indexed-row date
2026-05-16
API endpoint

Keywords

IRS-CItax fraudmoney launderingdrug traffickingPPP fraudCOVID fraudcrypto fraudidentity theftembezzlementIRS criminal

Provenance

The listed URL identifies a referenced source; it does not by itself document the ingestion endpoint. Referenced source URL: https://www.irs.gov/compliance/criminal-investigation/criminal-investigation-press-releases. Source-specific terms apply. US federal employee-authored works are generally public domain under 17 USC 105; non-federal and third-party material retains source terms. Free or keyless access does not alter source terms. Metadata and normalization authored by MORVS (AI Analytics LLC) are CC0 only where expressly stated.

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