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CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The U.S. Secret Service, in conjunction with multiple state and local law enforcement partners in three major cities within North Carolina, conducted a payment card skimming and Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) fraud…

WASHINGTON – Thomasz Szabo, 26, of Romania, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to being the leader of a years-long conspiracy that targeted victims across the United States with “swatting” and bomb threats. Szabo and his co-…

Jay Clayton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that NADINE JAZIMNE WADE was sentenced to 63 months in prison for laundering more than $2 million in fraud proceeds acquired from the victims of romance…

NEW YORK - Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez today announced that two men have been indicted for allegedly stealing 17 social security numbers and using them to create a full identity profile for each of them – including driver’s…

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Secret Service, the Seattle Police Department, the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office and the Fife Police Department conducted a payment card skimming and Electronic Benefit Transfer fraud outreach operation in Washington…

EAST ST. LOUIS, IL – The former second-in-command of the Bank of O’Fallon appeared in federal court Monday to admit to charges for engaging in a fraud scheme to obtain more than $2 million.

Andrew P. Blassie, 69, of St. Louis, pleaded…

United States Secret Service Director Sean M. Curran has named Matthew C. Quinn as the agency’s 24th deputy director, bringing back the veteran special agent to bolster his top leadership team.

Quinn, a former deputy assistant director…

HOUSTON ‐ A man and woman who illegally resided in Houston have admitted their roles in installing and removing ATM skimmers from machines at multiple banks in the Houston area, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei. 

Perla…

INDIANAPOLIS — Melvin Anderson, 23, of Indianapolis, has been sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison followed by 10 years of supervised release after pleading guilty to advertising child sexual abuse material and distribution of visual…

Tampa, FL – U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven has sentenced John Alberto Stolard (48, Wesley Chapel) to one year and one day in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud involving quit claim deeds. The court also ordered Stolard to…

WASHINGTON – United States Secret Service Director Sean M. Curran has appointed Richard H. Macauley as the 23rd Chief of the United States Secret Service Uniformed Division effective immediately.

Prior to this role, Macauley was the…

STATEMENT FROM SAIC PATRICK J. FREANEY

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was intended to stave off financial ruin for those needing economic relief during the Pandemic. The subterfuge carried out by the defendant in this…

CHARLESTON, SC — Daniel Cavey, 51, of Jacksonville Beach, Florida, has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison for his role in a multi-year wire fraud scheme to defraud a chain of home improvement stores.

Evidence obtained in the…

URBANA, IL – A Bismarck, Illinois, man, Jacob R. Kirkley, 48, was sentenced on May 2, 2025, to four years in prison for his second federal counterfeiting conviction, as well as an additional 18 months in prison for violating his federal…

LAS VEGAS – A Las Vegas resident was sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge Andrew P. Gordon to 33 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for a scheme to steal nearly $240,000 in unemployment…