News Releases

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL - The Fort Lauderdale Police Department (FLPD) is announcing the recovery of nearly $1.2 million after a thorough and complicated investigation into a nationwide construction fraud scheme. The City of Fort Lauderdale was…

WASHINGTON – United States Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has announced the promotion of Brian Lambert to the position of Assistant Director for the Secret Service’s Office of Investigations, effective Jan. 28. 

In this…

BENTON, Ill. – A Federal jury convicted a registered sex offender in St. Clair County of sexually exploiting another minor.

Members of the jury found Dan R. Waeckerle, Jr., 44, of Swansea, guilty of soliciting an obscene visual…

JACKSONVILLE, FL – A Florida woman was sentenced today to two years in prison for a scheme to file false tax returns and to two years in prison for an unrelated online romance scam. The two sentences are to run concurrently with each other.…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Russell Campbell, 21, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 30 months in prison in connection with his possession of a Glock firearm and possession of an AK-style pistol recovered during a traffic stop by the U.S.…

COLUMBUS, GA – The CEO of a New York-based venture capital firm who conspired to defraud more than 50 investors of millions of dollars in a pre-IPO scam was sentenced to prison today for his crime.

George Iakovou, 30, of New York, New…

ATLANTA - Austin Martin Siampwizi, who laundered money procured from fraudulent unemployment claims filed during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, has pleaded guilty to a charge of money laundering conspiracy.

“Criminals used the…

LOS ANGELES - A seven-count indictment was unsealed yesterday in Los Angeles charging four individuals for their alleged roles in a scheme to launder the proceeds of cryptocurrency investment scams and other fraudulent schemes involving…

NEW YORK - Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that a jury returned a guilty verdict against NADINE JAZIMNE WADE on all four counts in the Indictment, which contained money…

BOISE, ID – Andrew Samargis, 69, a former Idaho resident was charged yesterday for conspiring to commit money laundering and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business by collecting money from various wire and bank frauds schemes and…

JACKSONVILLE, FL – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Rohan Conrad Campbell (49, Jamaica) has pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison for the…

SAN FRANCISCO – Miklos Daniel Brody was sentenced to 24 months in prison today for a network intrusion and for making false statements to a government agency, announced United States Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey and United States Secret Service (…

BOISE, ID – Anubor Bagbi, 63, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit announced today.

According to court records, between May and…

DETROIT – A Southfield woman pleaded guilty today to wire fraud arising out of a scheme to defraud the State of Michigan out of more than $300,000 in pandemic-related unemployment insurance benefits, announced United States Attorney Dawn…

WASHINGTON – Arian Taherzadeh was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for pretending to be a federal law enforcement officer to curry favor with members of the U.S. Secret Service, and to lease several luxury apartments for which he then…