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Echo Housing Corporation is a non-profit organization based in Evansville. Echo’s mission is to create and sustain safe and affordable housing, provide supportive services, and promote community development for homeless men, women, children, and…

Citizens are looking for W-2s, 1099’s, and various other financial documents in the hope of minimizing what they owe, or better yet, the possibility of increasing the amount the government owes them. While searching through kitchen drawers and…

The Secret Service is the lead agency responsible for coordinating security operations for the State of the Union, as it was designated as a National Special Security Event, also known as an NSSE, on Sep. 24, 2018, by Secretary Kirstjen M.…

According to court documents, Brendyn J. Andrew, 27, of Gaithersburg, aided by a co-conspirator, used hundreds of stolen credit and debit card accounts to steal more than $150,000. In one part of the fraud scheme, Andrew obtained a full-size…

United States District Judge Nora Barry Fischer imposed the sentence on Seleste M. Foster, 25, of Clairton, PA. According to information presented to the court, Foster conspired and passed counterfeit $100, $50, and $20 Federal Reserve Notes…

Grant Ridder of Mountain View, CA, was indicted by a federal grand jury in May, 2017, and charged with two counts of production of child pornography, three counts of distribution of child pornography, one count of possession of child pornography…

Julio Lopez Da Silva, 38, pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, while Anderson Santos, 41, pled guilty to one count of aggravated identity theft, in U.S. District Court in Brunswick, said United States Attorney Bobby L.…

Brian Keith Kiser, 38, and Alan Curtis Jarrell, 37, both of Columbus, were arrested this week after members of the Secret Service Southern District of Ohio Electronic and Financial Crimes Task Force executed a search warrant at their residence.…

Jeremy Jones was originally indicted in February 2016, and in November 2017, was found guilty of using stolen identities to defraud over 100 individual victims and several financial institutions of more than 1.9 million dollars. Furthermore,…

“Sextortion” is a term used to describe a form of online exploitation where a sexual predator obtains explicit photos of victims and threatens to publish them online if the victim does not comply with additional requests – typically additional…

According to the indictment, the defendants, using a variety of different methods, hacked into SEC Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (EDGAR) system which is used to house financial information of public companies. This information…

NEWARK, N.J. – Two Ukrainian men have been charged for their roles in a large-scale, international conspiracy to hack into the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) computer systems and profit by trading on critical information they stole, U…

The U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) was proud to support the efforts of the FCSS and the Department of Homeland Security by offering recommendations for best practices on threat assessment and early intervention to…

On Sept. 28, 2018, Schmidt was found guilty by a federal jury of two counts of threatening the President of the United States and two counts of making interstate threatening communications. After learning that his conviction for a prior felony…

At the wheel was Israel Vasquez, a 46 year-old-citizen of Mexico, who was sentenced last week to life in prison after pleading guilty to drug and money laundering charges earlier this year. According to law enforcement, Mr. Vasquez’…