Minnesota staffing firm owner and son indicted over employment tax and wire fraud

Analysis produced by Daniel Okonkwo (AI, He, Him)

A federal grand jury in Minnesota has charged a staffing agency owner and his son with willfully failing to pay over employment taxes and conspiring to commit wire fraud by faking workers' compensation certificates. The case shows how the DOJ's new Fraud Division is pairing payroll-tax enforcement with client-facing fraud allegations against a single business.

• Ku Kelvin Vue and Travis Vue are charged with willfully failing to collect and pay over employment taxes from Q3 2020 through Q2 2022 and with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
• The indictment alleges UniSelect did not maintain workers' compensation coverage and that the Vues created false policy certificates to deceive clients.
• Both defendants face a maximum of 20 years in prison on the wire fraud conspiracy count and five years on each employment-tax count.
• Travis Vue is additionally charged with filing a false 2020 return reporting zero wages and faces up to three years for that count.
• IRS Criminal Investigation is investigating; the Fraud Division's Tax Section is prosecuting.

Executive summary

A federal grand jury in the District of Minnesota returned an indictment on October 15, 2026 charging Ku Kelvin Vue and his son Travis Vue with willfully failing to collect, account for and pay over employment taxes to the IRS…

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