News Releases

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, and innocent…

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 Judge Audrey…

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 detention,…

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 with…

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 Martinez.

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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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An Illinois man pleaded guilty today to money laundering conspiracy, joining six other defendants who recently pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges for their roles in liquidating and laundering victim payments generated through a massive…

Halima Ouedraogo, 36, most recently of Kirkland, Washington, was sentenced on November 9, 2017, in Miami by U.S. District Court Judge Federico Moreno to 11 years and 11 months in prison in connection with an extensive identity theft and access…

BOSTON – A dual U.S.-Irish citizen was arraigned late yesterday in federal court in Boston on charges of mortgage fraud and identity theft after being extradited from Ireland. It was Ireland’s first extradition to the United States since 2012…

WASHINGTON – Francis Lyles, 28, of Washington, D.C., was found guilty by a jury today of felony murder and first-degree cruelty to children in the beating death of her three-year-old son in June 2014, U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu announced.…

DALLAS — Roberto Carlos Puebla Saavedra, 32, originally from Cuba, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to 60 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $408,596.46 in restitution for his role in a conspiracy…

Rock Island, Ill. – Joaquin Louis Cook, 36, of Mesa, Ariz., has been sentenced to 136 months (11 years, 4 months) in federal prison for transporting and possessing child pornography. Cook appeared yesterday before U.S. District…

BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Daniel Witek, 54, of Buffalo NY, who was convicted of mail fraud, was sentenced to time served (six months) by Senior U.S. District Judge William M.…

(Washington, D.C.) - Acting Secretary Elaine Duke and leaders throughout the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) presented the awards at a ceremony today. The Secretary Awards is an annual event for DHS leadership to recognize the service of…

John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LISA REID, 45, of Amityville, New York, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to…