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ALBANY, GA –A Florida resident who is already serving more than a decade in federal prison for committing fraud in his home state pleaded guilty this week to a new aggravated identity theft charge in Southwest Georgia after being caught…

OKLAHOMA CITY – United States Attorney Robert J. Troester, Anand Ramlall, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Office of Inspector General (FDIC OIG), and David Thompson, Special Agent in Charge of the United…

An indictment was unsealed on Tuesday charging a Belarusian and Cypriot national with money laundering conspiracy and operation of an unlicensed money services business.

According to the indictment, between 2011 and July 2017,…

OKLAHOMA CITY – United States Attorney Robert J. Troester, Anand Ramlall, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Office of Inspector General (FDIC OIG), and David Thompson, Special Agent in Charge of the United…

MILWAUKEE – The U.S. Secret Service, along with its law enforcement and public safety partners, conducted an outreach event with local businesses and residents in Milwaukee Jan. 31 as the agency works to develop the security plan for the 2024…

DALLAS - A Mansfield, Texas, man who used Snapchat to inappropriately communicate with 14-year-old boy was sentenced Friday to 210 months in Federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Leigha Simonton.…

HAGATNA, GUAM – Shawn N. Anderson, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant Julien Abat Weymouth, age 32, from Dededo, Guam was sentenced to 30 months imprisonment.  He…

DUBLIN, GA -  A Georgia woman was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to repay more than half a million dollars she fraudulently obtained from COVID-19 small business relief programs.

Gladys Harun, 44, of Byron, Ga., was…

PHOENIX –David Michael Hanson, 41, of Phoenix, was arrested on Wednesday for making online threats against the President and Vice-President. Hanson was charged by Federal criminal complaint on Tuesday with five counts of Threats Against the…

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL - The Fort Lauderdale Police Department (FLPD) is announcing the recovery of nearly $1.2 million after a thorough and complicated investigation into a nationwide construction fraud scheme. The City of Fort Lauderdale was…

WASHINGTON – United States Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has announced the promotion of Brian Lambert to the position of Assistant Director for the Secret Service’s Office of Investigations, effective Jan. 28. 

In this…

JACKSONVILLE, FL – A Florida woman was sentenced today to two years in prison for a scheme to file false tax returns and to two years in prison for an unrelated online romance scam. The two sentences are to run concurrently with each other.…

BENTON, Ill. – A Federal jury convicted a registered sex offender in St. Clair County of sexually exploiting another minor.

Members of the jury found Dan R. Waeckerle, Jr., 44, of Swansea, guilty of soliciting an obscene visual…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Russell Campbell, 21, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 30 months in prison in connection with his possession of a Glock firearm and possession of an AK-style pistol recovered during a traffic stop by the U.S.…

COLUMBUS, GA – The CEO of a New York-based venture capital firm who conspired to defraud more than 50 investors of millions of dollars in a pre-IPO scam was sentenced to prison today for his crime.

George Iakovou, 30, of New York, New…