News and reports from the Department of Justice.

An Oklahoma man pleaded guilty yesterday to willfully failing to pay over employment taxes withheld from his employees’ wages.

A federal grand jury in Las Vegas returned an indictment today charging a Nevada woman with assisting in the preparation of false income tax returns.

A federal grand jury in St. Paul returned an indictment today charging a Hennepin County attorney with employment tax violations and aiding the filing of false individual income tax returns.

The alleged perpetrator of a $110 million cryptocurrency market manipulation scheme was scheduled to appear Feb. 2 in federal court in Manhattan, N.Y., for charges of commodities fraud, commodities market manipulation and wire fraud.

There were seven notices published by the Justice Department in week ending Feb. 4, according to the Federal Register.

News Release: Defendant Diverted Nonprofit’s Funds to Personal Accounts.

News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - Cindy Anne Ortiz, age 46 of Omaha, was sentenced on Feb. 1, 2023, to 156 months in prison. In September 2022, a jury rendered a guilty verdict convicting Ortiz of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Upon her release from prison, Ortiz was ordered to serve five years of supervised release.

News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - EDDIE HARRIS, age 38, a resident of New Orleans, pleaded guilty on February 8, 2023, before U.S. District Judge Jane T. Milazzo, to possessing with intent to distribute cocaine in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(C) and to being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(8).

News Release: A defendant pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court for shooting and killing a man who attempted to drive away after a brief verbal altercation, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.

News Release: United States Attorney Clint Johnson today announced the results of the February 2023 Federal Grand Jury A.

News Release: DENVER - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces Michael Thomas Delguidice, age 62, of Westminster, was sentenced to 124 months prison and 3 years supervised release for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.

News Release: A federal jury in the Middle District of Florida convicted a Virginia man today for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare of over $1 million in prescription drug benefits.

News Release: Adrian Lawrence, a citizen of Jamaica, will be arraigned this afternoon in federal court in Central Islip on a six-count indictment charging him with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, mail fraud and wire fraud, in connection with a scheme to defraud U.S. citizens. Today’s proceeding will be held...

News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that defendant, ARTHUR ALLEN, of Orleans Parish, was sentenced on February 8, 2023 by U.S. District Court Judge Jane Triche Milazzo to 90 months imprisonment, 3 years supervised release, and a $300 mandatory special assessment fee on Counts One, Two, and Four of a four-count indictment.

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...