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Federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged Bronx tax preparer Rafael Alvarez in an April 15, 2024 case alleging tens of thousands of false returns and more than $100 million in tax loss. A separate DOJ release in December 2024 later described Alvarez’s guilty plea in the same case.
The White House’s January and March 2025 actions on DEI framed the campaign as a return to merit and equal treatment, while critics saw a broad effort to recast civil-rights enforcement as ideology cleanup.