Ex-NASA employees admit to luxury home mortgage fraud scheme
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…
Dillsburg Company Pleads Guilty To Clean Air Act Violation
HARRISBURG – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Lobar, Inc., of Dillsburg, Pennsylvania entered a plea of guilty to beginning a demolition project of…
St. Louis City corrections officer pleads guilty to violating the civil rights of a prisoner
ST. LOUIS – United States District Court Judge Matthew T. Schelp accepted a plea of guilty from Demeria Thomas, age 38, on today’s date for deprivation of rights under color of law…
Lackawanna County Man Found Guilty Of Drug Distribution Resulting In Death
SCRANTON – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania has announced that on February 8, 2022, Robert Jackson, age 44, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, was found guilty of unlawfully…
Marine Based at Camp Pendleton Arrested on Federal Charges Alleging Cyberstalking of Young Women in Sextortion Campaign
LOS ANGELES – An active-duty Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton was arrested Tuesday on charges that he cyberstalked multiple young women with ties to his former hometown of Torrance in a…
17-Count Indictment Unsealed, 22 Defendants in Custody Resulting from Middle GA to Metro Atlanta Meth Investigation
MACON, Ga. – Arrest warrants were executed today and 22 individuals are facing federal charges resulting from an ongoing methamphetamine trafficking investigation in Milledgeville, Georgia, with ties to metro Atlanta. An indictment is…
Investment Club Treasurer Going To Prison For Two Years For Embezzling Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars
CONTACT: Barbara BurnsPHONE: (716) 843-5817FAX #: (716) 551-3051 ROCHESTER, N.Y. – U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Thomas Mann, 74, of Addison, NY, who was convicted of wire fraud, was…
Seven More Charged in Staged Automobile Collision Scheme
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – United States Attorney Duane A. Evans recently unsealed the indictment of FLORENCE RANDLE (“RANDLE”), age 70, of Gibson; STACIE WHEATEN (“WHEATEN”), age 50, of Atlanta; JOSEPH BREWTON (“BREWTON”),…
U.S. Attorney’s Office Settles Housing Discrimination Lawsuit Against Dansville Rental Property Owners
CONTACT: Barbara Burns PHONE: (716) 843-5817 FAX #: (716) 551-3051 ROCHESTER, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that a settlement agreement has been reached with the current and former owners of Midtown…
Webster Woman Charged with Theft, Embezzlement, and Misapplication by Bank Employee
United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Webster, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Theft, Embezzlement, and Misapplication by Bank Employee. Angelica Jean Gebur,…
Pine Ridge Man Charged with Second Degree Murder
United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Second Degree Murder. Julian Hard Heart, age 19, was…
Monroe Area Men Sentenced in Federal Court for Illegally Possessing Firearms and Drugs
MONROE, La. – Two men from the Monroe, Louisiana area were sentenced today by United States District Judge Terry A. Doughty in separate cases on charges of illegal possession of firearms and…
West Monroe Man Convicted of Murder-for-Hire Plot Sentenced to Time in Federal Prison
MONROE, La. – United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced that Steven Marcus Kelley, 48, of West Monroe, Louisiana, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Terry A. Doughty to 120…
Texas Man Sentenced to 35 Years in Prison for Drug Trafficking
Jackson, Miss.- A Dallas, Texas man was sentenced to 420 months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge David Denton of…
Willcox Resident Sentenced to 210 Months for Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child
TUCSON, Ariz. – Joshua William Scheu, 37, of Willcox, Arizona, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Cindy K. Jorgensen to 210 months in prison. Scheu previously pleaded guilty to two counts…
Arizona Man Sentenced to 32 Months in Federal Prison for Fraudulent Applications for Economic Injury Disaster Loans
DENVER – The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announced that Michael Lain, 56, of Queen Creek, Arizona, was sentenced to 32 months in federal prison for his role in…
Smuggler who Assaulted Border Patrol Agents with his Car Sentenced to Prison
Assistant U. S. Attorney Loren G. Rene (619) 546-8783 NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY – February 9, 2022 SAN DIEGO – Juan Francisco Sanchez-Campos of Phoenix, Arizona, was sentenced in federal court to 41…
Rhode Island Man Sentenced in COVID-19 Related Fraud Scheme
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A Warwick man charged with executing a scheme to defraud the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), an element of the CARES Act passed by Congress on March 29, 2020, in…
Key defendant in drug trafficking network sentenced to nearly 20 years in federal prison
SAVANNAH, GA: One of the leaders of a violent Savannah-area drug trafficking network has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in federal prison. Kashif Collins, a/k/a “Fat Boy,” 35, of Savannah, was…
Virginia Man Pleads Guilty in Paycheck Protection Program Money Laundering Scheme
A Virginia man who laundered over $900,000 in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funds pled guilty on February 8, 2022, in federal court in Sioux City. Benjamin Sakyi, age 31, from Dumfries, Virginia,…
Five Defendants Charged In $8.4 Million “Boiler Room” Fraud And Money Laundering Scheme
Damian Williams, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Thomas Fattorusso, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI”),…
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