News Releases

Abingdon, VIRGINIA – A Carroll County business owner, who paid some of his employees in cash to avoid paying taxes to the Internal Revenue Service and later lied in a bankruptcy proceeding, was sentenced today in federal court in…

TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA – Tangela Lawson-Brown, 41, of Midway, Florida, was sentenced yesterday to 60 months in federal prison after her conviction at trial in October 2017 for crimes arising from the filing of…

Greenbelt, Maryland – A federal grand jury indicted five individuals on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The indictment was returned on October 26, 2017, and unsealed upon the…

BUFFALO, N.Y.— U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Randy Jarrett, 45 of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit access device fraud, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to…

BOSTON – A Lawrence man who was working as a paid cooperator for the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with falsifying audio recordings in a…

WASHINGTON – A criminal complaint and arrest warrants were unsealed today charging two Romanian nationals with a conspiracy to illegally access approximately 123 computers associated with Metropolitan Police Department (MPD)…

(Washington, D.C.) – Earlier today, the Secret Service conducted a dynamic training exercise on the White House Complex. The exercise was developed over the course of several months by the Secret Service Joint Exercise and External Training…

DALLAS — A defendant charged in a major drug distribution conspiracy that operated in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and elsewhere was sentenced last week by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to 188 months in federal prison for…

EVANSVILLE- United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today the sentencing of two Louisville area residents for their role in an elaborate scheme to steal innocent victims’ identity and make and use fraudulent credit cards…

A Dominican citizen who resided in Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 11 years in prison today after pleading guilty mid-trial to conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), access device fraud, theft of…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – U.S. Attorney R. Andrew Murray announced today that seven members and associates of a Charlotte-area hip-hop group known as the "FreeBandz Gang" or "FBG" have been indicted on federal charges in connection with a…

PROVIDENCE – A Rhode Island jewelry distributor pleaded guilty today to federal charges that he orchestrated a long-running fraud scheme that defrauded a debtor finance company of more than $3.6 million dollars.

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Abingdon, VIRGINIA – A former BB&T employee, who over a period of approximately four years embezzled over a half-million dollar, was sentenced to more than 30 months in federal prison yesterday, United States Attorney Rick A.…

Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JUAN THOMPSON was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel to 60 months in prison for cyberstalking and making hoax…

John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARK J. ZITO, 55, of Shelton, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New…