News Releases

LAUREL, MD – Today, the U.S. Secret Service began construction on a state-of-the-art training facility. The new Maloney Canine Training Facility, located at the agency’s James J. Rowley Training Center, will roughly triple the size of the…

Eighteen defendants have been charged by federal and state authorities in connection with a scheme to traffic in stolen credit card account numbers and to manufacture counterfeit credit cards.

Benjamin G. Greenberg,…

Tampa, Florida – U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich today sentenced Everett Taylor to eight years, six months in federal prison for theft of government funds and aggravated identify theft. The Court also ordered him to…

Memphis, TN – After a six-day jury trial in the U.S. District Court, a Memphis man has been found guilty as charged of using stolen identities to defraud over 100 individual victims and various financial institutions of more than…

St. Louis, MO – Malachi Duncan, a/k/a "Demarcus Brewster," was sentenced to 45 months in prison for charges of student loan fraud and aggravated identity theft. Duncan was further ordered to pay restitution to the victims in the…

NEWARK, N.J. – A tax preparer was sentenced today to 13 months in prison for preparing fraudulent income tax returns on behalf of her clients, causing losses of over $130,000, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.

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HAMMOND – The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that Gary Smith, 28, of Robbins, Illinois, was sentenced by District Court Judge Joseph Van Bokkelen for using counterfeit…

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Danielle Rose Escalante, age 32, of Garland, Texas pled guilty to Possession of a Counterfeit Obligation, in violation of Title 18,…

The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Matthew Senator Melvin, 36, of Shelburne, was sentenced Thursday in United States District Court in Rutland to 18 months of imprisonment following his guilty…

St. Louis, MO – Pierre Watson, 39, of Jennings Correction Center, was sentenced to 48 months in prison on Thursday by U.S. District Judge John Ross. Watson was sentenced in June to 84 months in prison in front of U.S. District…

PHILADELPHIA – Kenneth Hampton, 56, an inmate of a federal prison, was sentenced today to 200 Months, for masterminding a scheme under which he and his coconspirators defrauded the City of Philadelphia, the State of Pennsylvania,…

HOUSTON – Three people have been ordered to federal prison following their convictions of money laundering for their participation in a Houston-based bank fraud and money laundering scheme, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe…

United States Attorney G. F. Peterman, III, announced that a Federal Grand Jury returned indictments in the Columbus Division of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia today charging twenty defendants…

PITTSBURGH - A resident of the state of Florida has been sentenced in federal court to three years probation, two months of which shall be served at a Community Corrections Center and four months of which shall be served on home…

ALEXANDRIA, La. – Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Leesville man was sentenced last week to 40 months in prison for taking part in counterfeiting $100 bills in order to purchase prepaid cards.

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