By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2022
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.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2022
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.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2022
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...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2022
News Release: Scott Chappelle Concealed Income and Assets to Avoid Paying More than $1.6 Million in Taxes, While Maintaining a Lavish Lifestyle.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2022
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2022
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2022
News Release: FBI Cautions About Threats to Election Workers Ahead of the November 2022 Midterm Elections.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2022
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.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2022
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2022
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2022
News Release: Memphis, TN - Carl Goodson Ragsdale, 58, of Bruceton, Tennessee, has been sentenced to 12 years for.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2022
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...

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2022
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2022
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.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2022
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2022
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.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2022
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.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2022
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Akale Jamel Green, 54, of Huntington, pleaded guilty today to distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2022
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).

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2022
News Release: A Baltimore businessman pleaded guilty today to willfully failing to account for and pay over employment taxes to the IRS.