By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the guilty plea of EDDY ALEXANDRE, the leader of a purported cryptocurrency and foreign exchange (“forex") trading platform called EminiFX, who solicited more than $248 million in investments from tens...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: DETROIT - The Detroit Land Bank Authority (“DLBA"), a public organization working on behalf of the City of Detroit and the Detroit Building Authority in the City’s redevelopment and demolition management efforts, has agreed to pay the United States $1,503,000 to resolve allegations relating to unsubstantiated...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the guilty pleas of four members and two associates of the Genovese Organized Crime Family to racketeering conspiracy. Genovese Family associate THOMAS POLI pled guilty before United States District Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: ALPINE, Texas - A Presidio County woman was indicted in federal court in Alpine Thursday on charges related to importing and possessing methamphetamine and fentanyl with intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - Two men have been charged in separate indictments by a federal grand jury for their roles in online romance fraud schemes, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: The U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) announced today the disbursement of over $115 million to 38,889 victims in connection with fraud schemes processed by MoneyGram International Inc. (MoneyGram). The victims, many of whom are elderly, will recover the full amount of their losses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Two Kansas City, Mo., men have been sentenced in federal court for their roles in a nearly $10 million conspiracy that distributed almost 1,000 kilograms of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: A federal indictment was unsealed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, charging a former private prisoner transport officer with sexually assaulting a female pretrial detainee during a prisoner transport and using a firearm in furtherance of his sexual assault.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: DETROIT - A Detroit man was sentenced today to 8 years in federal prison on charges of conspiring to defraud multiple government agencies out of more than $2.2 million in Covid-19 pandemic assistance funds and also to defraud the United States Postal Service (USPS) of more than $200,000, United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ADAM BELARDINO, the former chief executive officer of the Maddox Group, was sentenced in White Plains federal court to 42 months in prison for fraud in connection with separate schemes to defraud clients...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Today, the United States Attorney’s Office announced its immigration enforcement statistics for October 2022 to December 2022. These cases are prosecuted in partnership with the Tucson and Yuma Sectors of the Customs and Border Protection’s U.S. Border Patrol, along with Homeland Security...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: Defendant Followed Victim’s Car, Stabbed Him After Vehicle Crashed.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: FBI Albany Warns of Romance Scams Ahead of Valentine’s Day.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Donald Campbell Sr., 60, of Elmira, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with receipt, distribution, and possession of child pornography. The charges carry a minimum penalty of 10 years in prison and a maximum of 40 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - Three more defendants were sentenced today for their roles in a conspiracy to traffic over 140 firearms from the Beckley area to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: FORT SMITH - A Fort Smith man was arrested yesterday in Austin, Texas on criminal charges related to his alleged possession of an unregistered destructive device; namely, an improvised explosive bomb, which was not registered to him in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record as required by law. Mehta’s arrest ended a six-day manhunt, in which the public’s assistance was solicited in locating the defendant, who was assumed to be armed and dangerous.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: A federal jury convicted a Tulsa man Thursday for holding a 72-year-old woman captive in her own home and brutally assaulting her, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rakeem Willis, 31, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to a total of 120 years in prison, by Superior Court Judge J. Michael Ryan, for charges stemming from the fatal shooting of three men, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and Robert J. Contee III, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: FAYETTEVILLE - A Noel, Missouri man was sentenced today to 180 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine. The Honorable Judge Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Jose Teran, 32, of Scottsdale, Arizona, pleaded guilty last week to Conspiracy, Wire Fraud, and Transactional Money Laundering. Sentencing is scheduled for June 26, 2023, before United States District Judge Douglas L. Rayes.
