News Releases

ALEXANDRIA, VA – The United States has recovered and cleared title to $7 million of investment fraud proceeds using civil asset forfeiture. The United States will now begin the process of inviting the victims from whom those funds were stolen…

STATEMENT FROM SAIC PATRICK J. FREANEY 

The ringleader in this case was an inside man, betraying his trusted position by carrying out nearly 20 flagrant acts of loan fraud against unsuspecting credit unions and banks.…

LOS ANGELES – A former resident of the Fairfax District of Los Angeles was sentenced today to 36 months in federal prison his role in a scheme that involved using illegal skimmers on ATMs to harvest data, creating counterfeit debit cards using…

SACRAMENTO, CA — Cedar Sky Montgomery, of Calaveras County, pleaded guilty today to three counts of interstate communication of threats of violence, Acting U.S. Attorney Michele Beckwith announced.

According to court documents,…

TAMPA – U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle has sentenced Coretta Rena Bates (32, College Park, Georgia) to 24 months in federal prison for aggravated identity theft. The court also entered an order directing Bates to pay restitution…

Following an Officer-involved shooting near 17th and F Streets the morning of March 9, Secret Service Uniformed Division Chief Michael A. Buck released the following statement:

"On Sunday, March 9, an adult male was shot by U.S. Secret…

WASHINGTON – As part of a coordinated international effort, the United States Secret Service seized website domains linked to Russian cryptocurrency exchange, Garantex and froze multiple crypto currency assets owned by the exchange. Garantex…

Patrick J. Freaney, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the United States Secret Service (USSS), announced the extradition of AKEEM BADA a/k/a “AK” on charges of conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud, money laundering…

Greenbelt, MD – On Friday, February 28, Newton Ofioritse Jemide, 47, a Nigerian national, pled guilty to a federal charge for wire fraud conspiracy.  Jemide, who was recently extradited from France, was involved in a scheme to…

Jackson, MS – A Louisiana man pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiring to commit wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft in connection with a scheme to use the stolen identities of others to purchase expensive vehicles in…

ATLANTA - Thomas Addaquay has been sentenced following his conviction of 30 felonies related to two nationwide fraud schemes involving tax refund, business email compromise, and romance fraud scams.

“Addaquay’s fraud schemes impacted…

Tampa – U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington has sentenced Jonathan Daniels (46, St. Petersburg) to 14 years and 7 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and aggravated…

CHICAGO — A Chicago man has been sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison for manufacturing counterfeit $100 bills and using them in retail stores.

MARQUISE SHORES used chemicals and a printer in his Chicago residence to…

NEWARK, N.J. – A Middlesex County man was charged with participating in a conspiracy to defraud Williams-Sonoma, Inc. and another national transportation and logistics company through overbilling for trucking services, Acting U.S. Attorney…

PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Francis J. Battista, 39, of Aston, Pennsylvania, was convicted at trial on all charges against him — 12 counts of wire fraud, three counts of aggravated identity theft,…