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WASHINGTON – Today, the Secret Service announces the success of the largest operational seizure of counterfeit currency in the history of the agency.

OPERATION SUNSET is the culmination of an intense global investigation involving six…

LOUISVILLE, KY – United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman, joined by FBI Special Agent in Charge Amy S. Hess, United States Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Richard Ferretti, and Louisville Metro Police Chief Steve Conrad, today…

welve individuals were charged with allegedly executing a scheme to defraud customers of Bank of America and PNC Bank through conduct known as “ATM skimming,” according to complaints that were unsealed following the arrest of the majority of…

SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Senior United States District Judge Richard P. Conaboy sentenced a Hazleton man to 15 months’ imprisonment for passing counterfeit $100…

BIRMINGHAM –Federal prosecutors today charged a former Bibb County bank president with bank fraud for issuing 31 fraudulent loans in the names of other people or businesses and using the proceeds for himself, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce…

SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – Michael J. Mahannah, 33, of Auburn was sentenced today in federal court to serve fifteen (15) years in prison to be followed by a ten (10) year term of supervised release in connection with his guilty pleas to eighteen…

Tampa, Florida – U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew has sentenced Alberto Yuniel Garcia (31, Tampa) to six years and two months in federal prison for engaging in the manufacture and use of counterfeit credit cards and identity theft. He…

ALEXANDRIA, La. – United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that an Alexandria woman pleaded guilty Monday to using an Alexandria clinic’s credit cards to make unauthorized purchases of $119,000.

Alaina Stansell, 35, of…

Montgomery, Alabama – A Montgomery, Alabama resident was sentenced to 28 months in prison today for his role in a stolen identity refund fraud scheme, announced U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. of the Middle District of Alabama, and Principal…

Tampa, FL – U.S. District Judge James S. Moody, Jr. today sentenced Michel Lermos-Hernandez (40, Tampa) to 16 years and 7 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. The Court also ordered him to…

Baltimore, Maryland – U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced real estate consultant Alexander Sivels, II, age 32, of Baltimore, and real estate agent Christopher A. Kwegan, age 59, of Randallstown, Maryland, each to 27 months in prison…

Two Michigan men were indicted for credit card fraud for having 94 cards with stolen account numbers and names, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.

Timothy Darnel Keith, 25, of Canton, Michigan, and…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Juan Vasquez, 53, of Providence, the mastermind behind a long-running scheme to use the stolen identities of more than 400 individuals on fraudulent tax returns resulting in the receipt of more than $2.6 million in…

LAFAYETTE – United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Lafayette man was sentenced Monday to 57 months in prison for stealing approximately $1.5 million from an insurance settlement his sister received while she was…

COEUR D’ALENE – Matt Eugene Ruck, 49, of Moscow, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday in United States District Court to 60 months in prison followed by 3 years supervised release for wire fraud and theft of government money, unlawful possession of…