News Releases

NEW ORLEANS – Acting U.S. Attorney Michael M. Simpson announced today that AMANDA CANGELOSI (“CANGELOSI”), age 39, was indicted on August 22, 2025, for conspiracy to make and pass counterfeit United States currency, in violation of Title 18,…

FORT MYERS, FL – U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell today sentenced James Randall Lacy (60, Fort Myers) to three years and one month in federal prison for passing counterfeit Federal Reserve notes. Lacy pleaded guilty May 16, 2025.…

BIRMINGHAM, AL  – A Federal grand jury in Birmingham has returned an indictment charging two Chinese nationals with possessing counterfeit devices, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona.  

A one-count indictment filed in U.S…

The Defendants’ Crimes Involved Brutal Assaults, Extortion, Drug Trafficking, Production and Sale of Fraudulent Identification Documents, and Counterfeit Currency

NEW YORK - Earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn, an indictment was…

HOUSTON ‐ A man and woman who illegally resided in Houston have admitted their roles in installing and removing ATM skimmers from machines at multiple banks in the Houston area, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei. 

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URBANA, IL – A Bismarck, Illinois, man, Jacob R. Kirkley, 48, was sentenced on May 2, 2025, to four years in prison for his second federal counterfeiting conviction, as well as an additional 18 months in prison for violating his federal…

LOS ANGELES – A former resident of the Fairfax District of Los Angeles was sentenced today to 36 months in federal prison his role in a scheme that involved using illegal skimmers on ATMs to harvest data, creating counterfeit debit cards using…

TAMPA – U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle has sentenced Coretta Rena Bates (32, College Park, Georgia) to 24 months in federal prison for aggravated identity theft. The court also entered an order directing Bates to pay restitution…

Tampa – U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington has sentenced Jonathan Daniels (46, St. Petersburg) to 14 years and 7 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and aggravated…

CHICAGO — A Chicago man has been sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison for manufacturing counterfeit $100 bills and using them in retail stores.

MARQUISE SHORES used chemicals and a printer in his Chicago residence to…

NEW YORK — U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers and U. S. Secret Service agents are protecting your currency’s integrity ahead of the upcoming holiday shopping season.

On November 18, CBP officers seized a total of $304,500…

SHREVEPORT, La. – United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown, United States Secret Service Resident Agent in Charge Felton L. Joseph, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Lyonel Myrthil, announced today that a federal…

New York - Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, an indictment charging defendants with fraud and aggravated identity theft for various ATM skimming-related crimes perpetrated between May 2022 and February 2023, was…

ALBANY, GA –A Florida resident who is already serving more than a decade in federal prison for committing fraud in his home state pleaded guilty this week to a new aggravated identity theft charge in Southwest Georgia after being caught…

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…