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The following individuals have been charged with violations of United States law in indictments returned by the Grand Jury. The return of an indictment is a method of informing a defendant of alleged violations of federal law, which must be…

The charges are contained in three indictments and a complaint unsealed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The charges were announced by U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu, Ashan M. Benedict, Special Agent in Charge of the…

A federal grand jury indicted Nashatka, a current resident of Michigan, along with his co-conspirator, United Kingdom resident Elliott Gunton, a/k/a “planet,” a/k/a “Glubz,” on August 13, 2019. According to the indictment, in December of 2017…

“The defendants are accused of making their living by stealing from Americans’ bank accounts,” said U.S. Attorney Byung J. “BJay” Pak. “They allegedly installed ATM skimming devices to steal customer data, and then used their network of…

According to court documents and statements made in court, Lion was employed by the City of New Haven for approximately 40 years, most recently in the city’s accounting department. New Haven had a policy where employees can be paid in advance…

On the night of October 22, 2014, Officer Technician Mirarchi and his canine partner, Hurricane, were assigned to the Emergency Response Team stationed on the grounds of the White House. They were called to respond to a potentially dangerous…

According to court documents, Christopher Nelson, aka Fabian Ellington III, 42, was part of a group that defrauded the Virginia Credit Union (VACU), a federally insured financial institution, through a sophisticated scheme. In the first step,…

United States District Judge Nora Barry Fischer imposed the sentence on Elvis E. Roman, age 33, of Romania.

According to information presented to the court, Roman participated in a conspiracy and scheme to defraud banks in Western…

Lisa Talton Wells Daugherty, 52, of Rainbow City, a former Unit Coordinator at Oak Landing Assisted Living Facility in Atalla, Alabama is charged with one count each of wire fraud, money laundering, filing a false tax return, and theft of…

Hazell had pleaded guilty on July 16, 2019.

According to court documents, between June 16, 2018, and February 27, 2019, Hazell used 91 different stolen credit card numbers to purchase theme park tickets and hotel packages from…

According to court documents and statements made in court, between approximately December 2017 and January 2019, Bonilla and others obtained access to bank accounts by recruiting individuals through social media and persuading the…

Bobbie L. Henderson III, 36, of Edgewater, New Jersey, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Stanley R. Chesler in Newark federal court to an information charging him with one count of conspiracy to launder monetary instruments. According…

The indictment alleges that from in or about April 2016 through on or about March 22, 2017, Deyao Chen, Guichun Chen, and Liangtu Pan operated through websites located in the People’s Republic of China and offered controlled substances for…

The charges against 19 defendants in the Southern District of Georgia were announced Sept. 27 as part of a nationwide Department of Justice operation into a scheme that involved trafficking orders and prescriptions for genetic testing,…

According to court documents, in 2006, after being found guilty at trial for participating in a scheme involving the passing of counterfeit checks, Streeter was sentenced to seven years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised…