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According to the charging instrument, from calendar years 2015 to 2016, Michael B. Gaines, branch manager of Tri-State, developed a scheme to activate many dormant accounts and withdraw funds from said accounts with the help of another…

Upon his release from prison, he will be supervised by U.S. Probation for three years. Campanon was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $21,114.84. In April 2018, Campanon pleaded guilty to three counts of a September 2017 federal…

Martin Smith, age 38, from Center Point, Iowa, was convicted of Aiding and Abetting the Obstruction of the Examination of a Financial Institution. At the plea hearing, Smith admitted that he backdated a refinancing loan to obstruct an FDIC…

According to court documents, Ruslan Yeliseyev, 42, of Odessa, Ukraine, made his living selling stolen financial information on underground Russian-speaking criminal websites. The information that Yeliseyev sold, which had been stolen from…

ELIO ARTURO RODRIGUEZ-MENDEZ of Miami, Florida, and JEAN JESUS RODRIGUEZ-SILVA of Louisville, Kentucky, both pleaded guilty on May 10, 2018, to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud. Each was sentenced by United States District Judge…

The one-count indictment alleges that the offense occurred in Waterloo on or about February 15, 2017. Earlier today, Brueggemann made his initial appearance in federal court. Brueggemann pleaded not guilty to the charge and was released on…

Today, U.S. District Judge Gray Miller handed Berry a 51-month sentence to be immediately followed by three years of supervised release. Berry was ordered to pay $1,820,858.40 in restitution to her fraud victims and an additional $344,268 in…

According to the court documents, MINGUZZI and three other Brazilian nationals were arrested by members of the Louisiana Financial Crimes Task Force at a hotel in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans on August 3, 2017. Federal and state law…

As part of today’s sweep, 25 defendants were arrested on federal and state charges, two defendants remain at-large, and two others were already in custody. Today’s operation involved over 150 federal, state and local law enforcement agents…

On September 20, 2017, Antwan Crossland was stopped by officers with the St. Peters Police Department driving a stolen U-Haul truck. The officers found an AR15 rifle in his lap, counterfeit United States Currency, and a driver’s license in the…

Jolly made his initial appearance on August 15, 2018, and was detained on August 21, 2018. His trial is set for October 1, 2018. Hamilton will make his initial appearance in federal court on August 28, 2018. An indictment is merely a formal…

In his plea agreement, Mr. Coleman admitted to buying iPhones on two occasions from Albany residents knowingly using counterfeit currency. Those Albany residents later attempted to use the currency they had obtained from Mr. Coleman to…

From November to late December 2017, NITA and IANEV conspired with others to commit bank fraud. NITA and IANEV installed ATM skimming devices on ATM machines at several financial institutions around the Baton Rouge area, among other locations…

SCRANTON – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jeffrey R. Boyd, age 55, a resident of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was indicted on August 21, 2018, by a federal grand jury for…

CONCORD - Everton Ellis, 41, of Yonkers, New York, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.

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