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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Raytown, Mo., man who worked or volunteered at two area churches was sentenced in federal court today for embezzling more than…

Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that ANDREW O’NEIL BOWYER, age 26, a resident of Jamaica, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Indictment for Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud.

U.S. District…

(Washington, D.C.) – On July 11, 2017, Ager Hasan, Canadian homicide suspect, was arrested during a traffic stop by Secret Service agents and Task Force officers in San Antonio, Texas. Hasan’s arrest resulted from a counterfeit investigation…

Bangor, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Ronald Boersma, 38, of Brewer, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 69 months in prison to be followed by 15 years of…

(Washington, D.C.) - In 2004, the Secret Service arrested more than 28 individuals as part of an undercover investigation. The suspects, located across eight states and six foreign countries, were involved in a global cyber organized crime…

BATON ROUGE, LA – Acting United States Attorney Corey Amundson announced today that three more individuals have been charged with insider trading in connection with the acquisition of the Shaw Group. A federal grand jury sitting in the Middle…

A licensed physician in Miami pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday for his role in a multi-faceted $4.8 million health care fraud scheme that ran from April 2011 to February 2017, involving the submission of false and fraudulent claims to…

WASHINGTON – Today, the Secret Service announces the success of an operation that resulted in a significant seizure of counterfeit currency and multiple arrests.

Secret Service offices in Bogota, Colombia and Miami, Florida, conducted…

Roanoke, VIRGINIA – The sixth member of a conspiracy that targeted rural communities in the southeast to commit credit card fraud and aggravated identity theft pled guilty yesterday in the United States District Court for the Western District…

St. Louis, MO – Malachi Duncan a/k/a “Demarcus Brewster” pled guilty to charges of student loan fraud and aggravated identity theft. Duncan appeared today before United States District Judge John A. Ross.

According to court documents,…

(Washington, D.C.) A multi-year cyber investigation, led by the U.S. Secret Service, culminated in Virginia federal court with the sentencing of Alexander Tverdokhlebov, 29, of Los Angeles. Tverdokhlebov, who emigrated from Russia in 2007 and…

(Norfolk, VA) – A United States Secret Service investigation resulted in a lengthy prison sentence for a former accounting manager who embezzled over $255,000.

Lindsay Kneff of Virginia Beach pleaded guilty on January 17, 2017 to wire…

LITTLE ROCK—Patrick C. Harris, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced today that Steven Thorpe, 44, of Jonesboro, will spend more than 21 years in federal prison for advertising child pornography.

(New York, NY) – A United States Secret Service investigation resulted in the arrest of five men for their involvement in a sophisticated credit card and identity theft scheme.

A nationwide operation that involved the Secret Service…

Later today, Albert Veliu and Anthony Noterile will be arraigned at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York on charges relating to the operation of extortion, money laundering and narcotics trafficking schemes that ultimately resulted in…