News Releases

SAN JUAN, P.R – On May 9, 2017, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned a 49-count superseding indictment charging 22 individuals with conspiracy to commit identity theft, aggravated identity theft, and counterfeit access…

ALBANY, NEW YORK – Ilie Sitariu, age 37, and a citizen of Romania, was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for working with others to steal account information and personal identification numbers (PINs) from people using ATMs in the Capital…

HOUSTON - An Indian national pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering for his role in liquidating and laundering victim payments generated through various telephone fraud and money laundering schemes via India…

Abingdon, VIRGINIA – A Virginia woman, who conspired with others to commit wire fraud, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle…

CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – Anthony Francis Silvester, III, 38, of Elkins, West Virginia, was convicted today of making and possessing counterfeit money, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.

Silvester pled…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. –Christopher Bryan Roach, 34, of Charlotte, was sentenced today to 95 months in prison for his involvement in a bank fraud and identity theft scheme, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of…

MADISON, WIS. – Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Parish Barbary-Wheatherby, 21, Madison, Wis., was sentenced today to three years of probation by U.S. District Judge…

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A federal grand jury has charged five individuals in an identity theft ring that allegedly used victims’ information to obtain and use new and existing in-store lines of credit at well-known retailers in an indictment returned…

SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Elhadj Barry, age 32, a resident alien originally from Guinea, was indicted on May 9, 2017, by a federal grand jury for conspiracy to use…

BOSTON – A New Hampshire man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for trafficking in more than $350,000 in stolen retail gift cards.

Khoa Doan, 34, of Manchester, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Senior…

BOSTON – Two men were sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with a fraudulent scheme to obtain and re-sell more than $330,000 in new cell phones.

Jimmy Phan, 30, of Boston, was sentenced yesterday by U.S.…

Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JOHN O’BRIEN, 53, of North Kingstown, R.I., was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in Bridgeport to 36 months of…

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a man who lived in his travel trailer was sentenced in federal court today for a counterfeiting scheme that victimized businesses…

CAMDEN, N.J. – The executive director of the Ocean City, New Jersey, Housing Authority (OCHA) today admitted embezzling federal funds received by authority from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Acting U.S. Attorney…

BOISE — Michigan residents Devin Arthur Searcy, 23, and Juwuan Demilo Gordon, 27, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez announced. Searcy pleaded guilty today and Gordon pleaded guilty on April…