News Releases

(Washington, D.C.) – United States Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy is announcing his retirement on March 4, 2017, after 30 years of public service to his country. Mr. Clancy served as the agency’s Director for two years, during which…

WASHINGTON – A Columbus, Georgia resident was sentenced to 18 months in prison today for his role in a stolen identity refund fraud scheme, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose announced today that U.S. District Court Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. sentenced the former CEO of ZeekRewards to 176 months in prison for operating a $900 million Internet Ponzi scheme. Paul…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A Hardin County, Kentucky resident and others, were arraigned in United States District Court today, before Magistrate Judge Dave Whalin, on multiple charges of possessing and using counterfeit credit cards and possessing the…

Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, Ercan Findikoglu, a Turkish citizen also known by the online nicknames “Segate,” “Predator,” and “Oreon,” was sentenced to eight years for his leadership role in organizing and…

(Washington, D.C.) – John R. Simpson, 16th Director of the U.S. Secret Service, died peacefully at home today on Maryland’s Eastern Shore with his family at his side.

“Director John Simpson embodied the very essence of the Secret…

RENO, Nev. – A Reno man was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Howard D. McKibben to 36 months in prison and three years of supervised release for making a threat against the President of the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G…

WASHINGTON –– A New Hampshire man was sentenced today to 96 months in prison for remotely hacking into the online accounts of dozens of teenaged female victims and sending them threatening online communications, in some instances containing…

(WASHINGTON) – The National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) today granted final approval for the design for a new White House fence, as proposed by the United States Secret Service (USSS) and National Park Service (NPS). With the NCPC…

The United States has no way of knowing the precise amount of money Sunmola and his associates stole, but victims who responded to government requests for information reported total losses in excess of $1.7 million – a figure Sunmola has been…

U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that RYAN CLAVERIE, age 37, of New Orleans, pled guilty today to conspiracy to commit access device fraud.

According to court documents, CLAVERIE worked as a waiter in a restaurant in Metairie…

The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that three residents of Brooklyn, New York were recently sentenced in United States District Court in Brattleboro following their guilty pleas to charges involving credit card…

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that STEVEN WILLIAMS was found guilty Friday of conspiring to distribute kilogram quantities of heroin and cocaine. WILLIAMS was convicted after a one-…

Fort Myers, Florida – Senior United States District Judge John E. Steele today sentenced Jeffrey Ihm (49, Naples) to 11 years and 8 months in federal prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. The Court ordered him to pay restitution…

Jacksonville, Florida – U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard today sentenced Brian Lee Adams (57, Jacksonville) to five years and four months in federal prison for theft of government property and aggravated identity theft. As part of the…