News Releases

HARRISBURG – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Mohamed Farah, age 32, of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury for threatening the President and a…

SAN DIEGO – Three men were sentenced in federal court today for engaging in a years-long, nation-wide fraud conspiracy that stole victims’ financial information from ATMs and gas pumps in San Diego and across the country, and then used the…

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that KATIE LAROCHE, age 53, from New Orleans, was charged on April 19, 2022 with wire fraud, based on her embezzlement of $233,363.53 from a client.

The…

HONOLULU – Brandon Charles Saffeels, 37, a former Maui Police Department officer, pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court to attempted child enticement. U.S. District Court Judge Leslie E. Kobayashi took Saffeels’ guilty plea and…

SAVANNAH, GA:  Four people have been charged with participating in COVID-19 relief fraud schemes, and three of them have already pled guilty.

The defendants all are charged via Informations as the result of ongoing investigations…

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that ANITA WILLENE HOBDY, age 67, from LaPlace, was charged on April 15, 2022 with wire fraud, stemming from fraudulent charges made from First Baptist Church…

LOUISVILLE, KY – Joseph Samir Zakhari, 34, was sentenced this week to 15 years in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release for multiple child exploitation offenses. There is no parole in the federal system. 

Zakhari was…

Ocala, Florida – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that a grand jury has returned an indictment charging Jorge Mojocoa (69, Fort McCoy) with attempted enticement of a minor to engage in sex. Mojocoa faces a mandatory minimum…

Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CRYSTAL KLATT, 36, of Meriden, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 12 months and one day imprisonment, followed by…

Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DAYQUAN FITZGERALD-WILLIAMS, 26, formerly of Connecticut and currently residing in North Carolina, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today…

NEWARK, N.J. – Four individuals were charged with conspiring to launder money taken from victims across the United States, many of whom were elderly, as a part of a series of romance scams, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.…

FLORENCE, SOUTH CAROLINA —Quinae Shamyra Stephens, 41, of Douglasville, Georgia, was convicted following a jury trial in federal court for multiple charges relating to a multi-state identity theft and fraud ring she was running with her…

DETROIT - A couple from Detroit was sentenced today for their role in a multi-million dollar unemployment insurance fraud scheme aimed at defrauding the State of Michigan and the U.S. Government of funds earmarked for unemployment…

Two Amarillo men who defrauded a manufacturer of cattle feed supplements out of more than $474,000 pleaded guilty today to wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham. 

Philip Ian Thomas…

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Justice today announced the seizure of the Raidforums website, a popular marketplace for cybercriminals to buy and sell hacked data, and unsealed criminal charges against RaidForums’ founder and chief…