News Releases

ALBANY, NEW YORK – Ilie Sitariu, age 37, and a citizen of Romania, was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for working with others to steal account information and personal identification numbers (PINs) from people using ATMs in the Capital…

MADISON, WIS. – Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Parish Barbary-Wheatherby, 21, Madison, Wis., was sentenced today to three years of probation by U.S. District Judge…

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A federal grand jury has charged five individuals in an identity theft ring that allegedly used victims’ information to obtain and use new and existing in-store lines of credit at well-known retailers in an indictment returned…

SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Elhadj Barry, age 32, a resident alien originally from Guinea, was indicted on May 9, 2017, by a federal grand jury for conspiracy to use…

BOSTON – A New Hampshire man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for trafficking in more than $350,000 in stolen retail gift cards.

Khoa Doan, 34, of Manchester, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Senior…

BOSTON – Two men were sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with a fraudulent scheme to obtain and re-sell more than $330,000 in new cell phones.

Jimmy Phan, 30, of Boston, was sentenced yesterday by U.S.…

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a man who lived in his travel trailer was sentenced in federal court today for a counterfeiting scheme that victimized businesses…

Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JOHN O’BRIEN, 53, of North Kingstown, R.I., was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in Bridgeport to 36 months of…

CAMDEN, N.J. – The executive director of the Ocean City, New Jersey, Housing Authority (OCHA) today admitted embezzling federal funds received by authority from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Acting U.S. Attorney…

BOISE — Michigan residents Devin Arthur Searcy, 23, and Juwuan Demilo Gordon, 27, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez announced. Searcy pleaded guilty today and Gordon pleaded guilty on April…

BOSTON – A Peruvian national pleaded guilty and was sentenced on April 26, 2017, for smuggling counterfeit U.S. currency into the United States.

Alejendrina Elsa Quispe Ramirez, 48, pleaded guilty on April 26, 2017, to smuggling…

Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that RYAN CLAVERIE, age 37, of New Orleans, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty today to conspiracy to commit access device fraud.

U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo…

Garmonyou Wiles, 31, of Philadelphia, PA, and Michael Barnes, 29, of Camden, NJ, were charged today by Grand Jury Indictment with counterfeiting and narcotics charges announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. Wiles and Barnes…

Eight defendants have been charged in a multi-count indictment, for their participation in an elaborate automobile fraud scheme that netted over $1.67 million.

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

(Washington, D.C.) – Twenty-five members of the Secret Service Uniformed Division were promoted Thursday during a ceremony in Washington, D.C.

“All of you have worked very hard to reach this stage in your careers, and you are to be…