HOUSTON – A Missouri City couple who once worked at NASA admitted Friday to running a years-long mortgage fraud scheme tied to the financing of their luxury home, federal prosecutors said. Noreen…
BOSTON – A Lynn man was sentenced on Friday, Feb. 25, 2022, for his involvement in a scheme to defraud several financial institutions and obtain money from customers using fraudulent identification documents.…
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – CHRISTOPHER HARRIS, age 28, a resident of Bogalusa, Louisiana, was sentenced to sixty (60) months’ imprisonment, four (4) years of supervised release and a $200 mandatory special assessment…
LOS ANGELES – A Koreatown man is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon after being arrested Saturday on federal charges alleging he worked with a Hollywood woman who ran a drug-delivery…
SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – Kamar L. Boatman, 36, of Syracuse was sentenced today to serve 60 months (five years) in federal prison for possessing firearms and ammunition as a convicted felon, announced…
WASHINGTON – Carlo General 21, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty today to a charge of voluntary manslaughter while armed in the fatal shooting of an 11-year-old…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Houston, Texas, man was sentenced in federal court today for defrauding two Kansas City-area brothers who have also been convicted in the investment fraud scheme. Duc Nguyen,…
NEW ORLEANS, LA – United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DESEAN CHRISTY, age 37, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was charged on February 25, 2022 in a three-count indictment by a…
RALEIGH, N.C. – Shawn Franklin, Sabrina Wiggins Branch and Anthony Maryland were each sentenced today to terms of imprisonment for conspiring with one another to commit bank and wire fraud. Franklin, currently…
PITTSBURGH, PA – A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of Aiding or Assisting in the Preparation or Filing of False Federal Income Tax Returns, United…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A Jamaica, NY, resident who allegedly took up temporary residences in New Haven, CT, and Brookline, MA, where he allegedly retrieved packages containing cash sent by individuals victimized by…
LOS ANGELES – Two Los Angeles men were sentenced today to federal prison terms for collecting ransom payments for a criminal conspiracy in which multiple victims were kidnapped near the United…
PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Malan Doumbia, 38, and Souleymane Diarra, 36, both of Philadelphia, PA, were convicted after trial of nine counts including conspiracy to commit…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. –Chenmin Xie, 25, formerly of the 500 block of West Herndon Street in Springfield, Illinois, pleaded guilty on February 22, 2022 to the charge of knowingly using a facility and…
ALBANY, NEW YORK – Timothy Schleede, age 30, of Lake Katrine, New York, was sentenced today to serve 70 months in prison for distributing fentanyl in Ulster County. The announcement was made…
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that CHRIS HABISREITINGER, 51, from Jefferson Parish, pled guilty on February 23, 2022 to conspiracy to distribute and possess with the…
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – A Charlottesville woman pleaded guilty today to altering and forging checks she obtained without the consent of the check owners. Samantha Leigh Thomas, 38, pleaded guilty to one count…
ROANOKE, Va. – A Roanoke man was sentenced last week to 14 years in prison for conspiring with others to traffic dangerous drugs from sources across the country into the Roanoke Valley.…
NEW ORLEANS – U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced the guilty pleas of two former U.S. Coast Guard employees in a test score-fixing scheme. U.S. Attorney Evans also announced additional guilty pleas…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A federal grand jury last week indicted a convicted felon on a drug charge, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Brad L.…
PITTSBURGH – Harold Hooten was sentenced to 24 months in prison for conspiring to distribute cocaine base in 2021, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today. Hooten, age 44, of Hermitage,…