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At the urging of Sen Ed Markey, the US Treasury Department is looking onto whether the money Florida used to send migrants from Texas to Massachusetts came from federal Covid relief funds.

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Inspector General will look into whether the state of Florida misused federal tax dollars when it moved 48 recent migrants from Texas to Massachusetts in September. 

Mass. Senator Ed Markey, sharing a letter from Deputy Inspector General Richard Delmar that was obtained by WGBH, said online that the Treasury Department “responded to my letter, confirming that it will investigate (Gov. Ron DeSantis’) use of Covid relief funds to cruelly transport immigrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard.”

After calls from Massachusetts lawmakers to investigate Florida’s alleged improper use of COVID relief funds to relocate migrants, the U.S. Treasury Department says it is getting a review underway “as quickly as possible.” Mass. Senator Ed Markey, sharing a letter from Deputy Inspector General Richard Delmar that was obtained by WGBH, said online that the Treasury Department “responded to...

The Treasury Department says it has sent out another 37 million economic impact payments over the past week, bringing the total disbursed in the past two weeks to $325 billion.

President-elect Joe Biden nominated Adewale “Wally” Adeyemo to serve as deputy Treasury Secretary. Here are five things you need to know.

The U.S. Treasury Department has fined Capital One $80 million for careless network security practices that enabled a hack that accessed the personal information of 106 million of the bank’s credit card holders.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is including former Venezuelan Vice President Tareck El Aissami among its 10 most wanted fugitives.

As she scanned the letter’s black type, Alexis Patterson felt herself go numb. “The U.S. Department of Treasury … applied all or part of your payment to delinquent debt that you owe,” it read. Patterson stopped reading. One thing mattered now. The single mother would not receive her $3,063 tax refund, including her child tax credit. The government would instead...

Some taxpayers fear the Internal Revenue Service, worried a single mistake will cost them their car or their house. Uncle Sam’s finance arm can and does flex its muscles. A former IRS agent shared a revealing take on the agency’s ruthless reputation with NBC Responds.

Federal prosecutors say a Massachusetts couple tried to defraud the government out of more than $50 million in clean energy grants. The U.S. Attorney’s office says Christopher Condron and Jessica Metivier were arrested Thursday on charges of wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud the government with respect to claims. Prosecutors say from May 2009 to June 2013, the couple submitted…

Mexican soccer star Rafael Marquez and popular norteño band leader Julion Alvarez were among 22 people sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department for alleged ties to a drug trafficking organization run by Raul Flores Hernandez.