News Releases

TYLER, Texas – A Pensacola, Florida man has pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei today. 

Perry Lewis Crenshaw, Jr., 27, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to…

Fort Myers, Florida – Acting United States Attorney Karin Hoppmann announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Amber Rewis Bruey (34) and Anthony James Bruey (35), a married couple from Lehigh Acres, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud,…

ATLANTA – Bamidele Muraina, a Nigerian national who hacked into tax preparation firms and filed fraudulent unemployment benefit claims and tax returns using stolen personally identifiable information, and Gabriel Kalembo, a previously convicted…

ROCHESTER, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Danielle Tooley, 36, of Batavia, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with wire fraud and theft of government funds. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 30…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last week on Aug. 23, the U.S. Secret Service Global Investigative Operations Center (GIOC) thwarted a real estate related Business Email Compromise (BEC) attempt to defraud a purchaser out of more than $21,000,000.00.

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VALDOSTA, Ga. – A Norman Park, Georgia, resident pleaded guilty to wire fraud for defrauding a life insurance settlement company after falsely claiming herself as the recipient of a large policy on an individual who was in fact alive at the time…

Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Juliana Barile pleaded guilty to one count of computer intrusion arising from the defendant’s unauthorized intrusion into, and destruction of data on, the computer system of a New York credit union (…

ST. THOMAS, USVI – U.S. Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that Mashama Ferdinand, 38, of St. Thomas pleaded guilty to wire fraud affecting a financial institution before Magistrate Ruth Miller. Ferdinand was released after posting a…

ROANOKE, Va.– A Buchanan, Virginia woman was sentenced today to 24 months in federal prison after pleading guilty in February to multiple credit card fraud charges.

According to court documents, in three separate instances, Patricia…

Miami, Florida – Fifty-eight-year-old Willie Curry, of Miami-Dade County, pled guilty yesterday in Miami federal court to a felony Information charging him with wire fraud in connection with his fraudulent application to the U.S. Small Business…

DAYTON, Ohio – Two Daytonians pleaded guilty in federal court to crimes related to a conspiracy to steal checks, credit cards, debit cards, bank account information and Social Security numbers to enrich themselves.

Myrtle Lynn “Mi Mi”…

LOS ANGELES – The former chairman of the board of the Fifth Church of Christ, Scientist, of Los Angeles was sentenced today to 130 months in federal prison for stealing more than $11 million in church funds.

          Charles Thomas…

ATLANTA - Franck Davidoff and Dwight Pearson have been sentenced after pleading guilty to a multi-million-dollar fraud scheme that resulted in a loss of over $2,000,000 to Synchrony Bank.

“These two defendants not only harmed the bank,…

The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Michael A. Gonzalez, 32, of Colchester, Vermont appeared today in federal court after being charged with five counts of possessing and selling stolen motor vehicles…

HERMAN, Texas – A federal grand jury in Sherman has returned a seven-count superseding indictment charging 101 individuals in a cell phone trafficking conspiracy in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei…