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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Two North Carolina family members, Lal H. Mahtani, 58, of Statesville and Vivek Ramesh Mahtani, 41, of Cornelius were sentenced yesterday in federal court before Judge Kenneth D. Bell for conspiring to transport fraudulently…

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Two Washington D.C. women and a Clinton, Maryland, man were sentenced for their roles in a conspiracy to commit bank fraud.

According to court documents, from at least May 2016 until Oct. 2016, Adiam Berhane, 50,…

SAN ANTONIO – Two New Braunfels men pleaded guilty in a federal court in San Antonio to selling non-controlled but dangerous substances through the mail.

According to court documents, Evan Asher Field, 42, and Michael Dominic Diaz, 30,…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – W. Stephen Muldrow, U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, announced the indictment of six individuals for a multi-million-dollar fraudulent scheme to illegally obtain federal recovery funds under the Coronavirus…

DETROIT – A Detroit man pleaded guilty today to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft arising out of a scheme to defraud multiple states out of more than $1.6 million in pandemic-related unemployment insurance benefits, announced United States…

Jacksonville, Florida – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the return of an indictment charging Christopher Leo Daragjati (33, Middleburg) with seven counts of wire fraud, ten counts of aggravated identity theft, one count of…

ALBANY, NEW YORK – Yuny Hurtado Rodriguez, age 34, of Cutler Bay, Florida, was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for his role in an access device fraud conspiracy.

United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman, Janeen DiGuiseppi, Special…

RIVERSIDE, California – The last two defendants in an Inland Empire-based scheme in which eight people fraudulently obtained $2.1 million in pandemic-related unemployment insurance (UI) benefits by claiming, among other things, that they were…

TRENTON, N.J. – An Essex County, New Jersey, woman was sentenced to 24 months in prison for her role in a business email compromise (BEC) scheme that affected numerous corporate and individual victims throughout the nation, U.S. Attorney Philip R…

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The founder of BreachForums made his initial appearance today in the Eastern District of Virginia on a criminal charge related to his alleged creation and administration of a major hacking forum and marketplace for…

MIAMI – A Miami federal grand jury has charged Alan Paul Brooks, of Aventura, with mail fraud and money laundering.

According to the indictment, from June to December 2022, Brooks engaged in a scheme to steal funds payable to a health…

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Patrick J. Freaney, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the United States Secret Service (“USSS”), Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director in…

ARLINGTON, Va. — A capacity crowd was on hand at the MedStar Capitals Iceplex to witness the 2023 Charity Hockey Game between the United States Secret Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Fans were treated to 45 minutes of…

Fort Myers, Florida – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Diane Durbon and Brittany Lukasik, both of Cape Coral, today pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Lukasik also pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return…

BENTON, Ill. – In a U.S. District courtroom on Wednesday, a federal jury returned a guilty verdict after a three-day trial for an O’Fallon man charged with enticing a minor.

Eric Richardson, 40, was convicted of using his cellphone to…