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.
Every record in this dataset can be traced back to its primary source at https://www.irs.gov/compliance/criminal-investigation/criminal-investigation-press-releases. Underlying content is a US federal government work (public domain under 17 USC §105); our derived data is licensed CC0 1.0.