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PROVIDENCE – Four men from the Atlanta, GA, area have been charged in federal court in Providence, RI, for allegedly operating a long-running scheme in which homeless and transient individuals from the Providence area were recruited to cash…

A Catoosa woman has been indicted for defrauding seven Oklahoma banks when she falsified and submitted documents to apply for $735,396 in loans, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.

Pamela Kathryn Conley, 58, is charged with 16…

Orlando, Florida – Jeremy Kee Anderson (50, Minnesota) has pleaded guilty to 12 counts of wire fraud, 7 counts of mail fraud, and 1 count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud. He faces up to 20 years in federal prison on each count.…

WASHINGTON- Today, U.S. Secret Service Director James M. Murray announced that Faron K. Paramore has been named as the agency’s 22nd Deputy Director, effective March 14. 

As Deputy Director, Paramore will oversee the agency's daily…

SCRANTON – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on March 2, 2021, Costel Aparaschivei, age 38, of Romania, was sentenced to 45 months’ imprisonment by United States District Court Judge Robert…

CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – Ray Roberto Carrion-Susana, of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, appeared today in federal court to face charges of fraud involving false identification, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.

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PROVIDENCE – A Lawrence, MA, man, one of nine individuals indicted by a federal grand jury in Providence, RI, in July 2020, for their alleged participation in a wide-ranging conspiracy to defraud financial institutions in several states, pleaded…

Greenbelt, Maryland – Ricco Darnell Taylor, age 32, of Capitol Heights, Maryland, has pleaded guilty to manufacturing and passing counterfeit currency following an investigation led by the U.S. Secret Service…

HOUSTON – A 37-year-old Houston resident is set to appear in federal court for her alleged submission of two Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan applications pursuant to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, announced…

LOUISVILLE, KY. – Matthew Alexander Lyons, 34, of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, was sentenced by United States District Judge David J. Hale yesterday to 25 years in prison followed by a life term of Supervised Release for multiple counts of online…

HOUSTON – A Secret Service investigation led to a criminal indictment of a 37-year-old Houston resident.  The indictment alleges the fraudulent submission of two Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan applications pursuant to the Coronavirus Aid…

HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Dale Richard Estep II, age 34, of Woodbridge, Virginia, was indicted by a federal grand jury on February 24, 2021, for passing counterfeit…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, announced today the filing of a federal civil complaint seeking the forfeiture of $1,047,535 seized from a money mule bank account being used to defraud a…

Greenbelt, Maryland – A federal criminal complaint was filed late this afternoon charging Jeremiah Peter Watson, age 22, of Hyattsville, Maryland, with being a felon in possession of a firearm.  

The criminal complaint was announced by…

ABINGDON, Va. – James Sebastian, a member of a conspiracy that trafficked methamphetamine from the West coast into Southwest Virginia, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Abingdon to 168 months in prison, Acting United States…