News Releases

TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA – After a three-day trial, Tangela Lawson-Brown, 41, of Midway, Florida, was convicted yesterday of wire fraud, theft of government funds, possession of unauthorized access devices, and aggravated identity…

BOSTON – A Lawrence man who was working as a paid cooperator for the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with falsifying audio recordings in…

Orlando, FL – Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that a federal jury today found Trayone Lefferio Bell guilty of one count of fraudulent possession of access devices (credit card), two counts of theft of…

ATLANTA – Treveyon Herring, one of five defendants charged with stealing credit cards from the baggage loading areas of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and a private mail sorting facility, has pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Garik Voskanyan, 34, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Garland E. Burrell, Jr. to 15 months in prison for bank fraud, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – A Savannah, Ga. woman, who previously admitted to her role in a conspiracy to unlawfully obtain federal tax refunds, was sentenced today to 24 months in prison. She is the fourth and final defendant to be sentenced in this…

Twelve retail store owners, operators, and clerks, have been charged in connection with schemes to illegally redeem food stamp benefits in exchange for cash.

Benjamin G. Greenberg, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District…

BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK – Joshua Michael Furbeck, age 22, of Oswego, New York, was sentenced today to serve 42 months in prison for Threatening to Murder a Federal Law Enforcement Officer, and 42 months in prison for Threatening to Murder a…

LITTLE ROCK — Patrick C. Harris, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Stephen G. Azzam, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) New Orleans Field Division, and Diane Upchurch, Special…

BOISE – Brian Ray McClure, 55, an inmate of the Idaho Department of Corrections, was sentenced yesterday to 33 months in federal prison for mailing threatening communications to a Washington state judge, U.S. Attorney Bart M.…

LEXINGTON, Ky. – A Nicholasville, Ky. man was sentenced yesterday to 41 months in federal prison for manufacturing counterfeit Federal Reserve Notes.

U.S. District Court Judge Joseph M. Hood sentenced 39-year-old Thomas Johnson for…

MADISON, WIS. – Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Joseph Jakubowski, 33, Janesville, Wis., was convicted today of stealing 18 firearms and two silencers from a…

LOS ANGELES – A Walnut resident has been arrested on federal charges of making a hoax threat by falsely reporting to airline and law enforcement officials that an acquaintance of his planned to blow up an airplane and posed a threat to the…

Jerry Louis, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by Indictment with one count of bank fraud and one count of access device fraud, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. The Indictment alleges that in April 2012, Louis…

RENO, Nev. – A Reno resident made his initial appearance in federal court Thursday for allegedly engaging in a $3.5 million fraud scheme involving over 8,000 fraudulent PayPal credit accounts, bank accounts, and prepaid credit and…