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News Release: MIAMI - David Joseph Varrone, 56, and wife Sherry Varrone of Weston, Fla., have been charged in federal court with conspiring to commit wire fraud through an elaborate credit “leasing" and investment Ponzi scheme linked to their company, The Credit Engineers Inc.


Postal Carrier Indicted for Cocaine Distribution Stemming from Her Official Position

News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announced the return of an indictment charging Bradenton residents Nathasha Prieto (33) and Angel Hernandez Coss (37) with conspiring to distribute and possession with the intent to distribute five or more kilograms of cocaine. If convicted on all counts, each faces a mandatory minimum term of 10 years, and up to, in federal prison.


San Antonio Pair Plead Guilty to SIM Swap Scheme

News Release: SAN ANTONIO - A San Antonio man pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and computer fraud for a scheme utilizing Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) swapping. SIM Swapping is an increasingly common method of fraud in which a victim’s cell phone carrier is compromised to...


News Release: Scott Chappelle Concealed Income and Assets to Avoid Paying More than $1.6 Million in Taxes, While Maintaining a Lavish Lifestyle.


News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A former physician with medical practices in New Jersey, New York, and Florida admitted wrongfully disclosing patients’ protected personal health information, Attorney for the United States Vikas Khanna announced today.


News Release: Bowling Green, KY - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging Charles Hopkins with conspiracy to sell shovelnose sturgeon and their roe that were taken in violation of Kentucky law.


News Release: FBI Cautions About Threats to Election Workers Ahead of the November 2022 Midterm Elections.


News Release: Natchez, Miss. - A McComb woman pled guilty today to preparing false tax returns for her clients, announced U.S. Attorney Darren LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge James E. Dorsey of Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation.


Mineral County man admits to drug charge

News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - James Robert Simone, III, of Keyser, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.


News Release: HOUSTON - A Houston woman has been ordered to federal prison following her conviction of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.


News Release: Memphis, TN - Carl Goodson Ragsdale, 58, of Bruceton, Tennessee, has been sentenced to 12 years for.


News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced the unsealing of an Indictment charging GRAHAM BONHAM-CARTER, a citizen of the...


Bowling Green Federal Grand Jury Returns Five Indictments for Drug Trafficking and Firearms Offenses

News Release: Bowling Green, KY - A federal grand jury in Bowling Green returned five indictments today separately charging individuals with drug trafficking and firearms offenses.


News Release: BILLINGS - A Billings man who admitted to sending a nude picture of himself to a fictitious girl during an undercover sting operation was sentenced today to five years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said.


Durable Medical Equipment Company Owner Sentenced for Health Care Fraud

News Release: MIAMI - A U.S. federal district judge has sentenced 56-year-old Ariel Madero Paez to 55 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release for submitting more than $2.2 million in fraudulent billings to Medicare.


News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NEFTALI FERNANDEZ, 42, a citizen of the Dominican Republic last residing in the Bronx, New York, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 120 months of imprisonment for trafficking cocaine.


Ohio Man Admits to Making a Bomb and Driving it to Carroll County, Maryland with the Intent to Kill His Romantic Rival

News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Clayton Alexander McCoy, age 32, of Chesterland, Ohio, pleaded guilty today to transporting explosives with intent to injure and to possession of an unregistered firearm/explosive device, in connection with an explosion at a home in Carroll County, Maryland. A resident of the home was the boyfriend of a woman in whom McCoy had a romantic interest.


Huntington Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Drug Crime

News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Akale Jamel Green, 54, of Huntington, pleaded guilty today to distribution of heroin.


News Release: WASHINGTON -Charles Clark, 65, of La Plata, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to one count of coercion and enticement of a minor, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves, Wayne A. Jacobs, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Washington Field Office Criminal Division, and Robert J. Contee III, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).


Baltimore Businessman Pleads Guilty to Employment Tax Crimes

News Release: A Baltimore businessman pleaded guilty today to willfully failing to account for and pay over employment taxes to the IRS.