News and reports from the Department of Justice.

News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - In December 2022, Solomon Ekunke Okpe and Johnson Uke Obogo, both Nigerian nationals, each pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire, bank, and mail fraud. Okpe and Obogo were involved in a variety of cyber-enabled fraud schemes between December 2011 and January 2017. Okpe also pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated identity theft.

News Release: FBI Memphis Field Office, U.S. Marshals Service Warn Tennesseans About Phone Scams.

News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that PATRICK KHAZIRAN, a/k/a “Dr. Pat," was sentenced to 30 months in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud the National Basketball Association (“NBA") Players’ Health and Welfare Benefit Plan (the “Plan"). U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni imposed the sentence.

News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Last week, DARVIS DEAN ARNETT, JR., 25, of Oklahoma City, was sentenced to serve 216 months in federal prison for being a convicted felon in illegal possession of firearms, announced United States Attorney Robert J. Troester.

News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Columbus man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today in a case involving the murder of a husband and wife in a local Internet café.

News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ROGER RALSTON, the CEO of DirectView Holdings, Inc. (“DirectView"), a Florida-based video surveillance and security company, was sentenced to five years in prison for defrauding elderly victims in connection...

News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former investment advisor who stole over $600,000 from his clients to fund his gambling and personal expenses has pleaded guilty, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.

News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JAMES BRADLEY, a/k/a “Abdullah," and ARWA MUTHANA were sentenced to 11 and nine years in prison, respectively, for attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, the...

News Release: A federal criminal complaint was unsealed charging Sarah Beth Clendaniel, 34, of Catonsville, Maryland, and Brandon Clint Russell, 27, of Orlando, Florida, with conspiracy to destroy an energy facility.

News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Desmond Devon Magee, also known as “Rich," 27, of Detroit, Michigan, pleaded guilty today to distribution of a quantity of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine.

News Release: EL PASO, Texas - A former Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer stationed in El Paso was sentenced Monday to eight months in jail plus three years of supervised release for receiving a bribe by a public official.

News Release: A federal court in New York unsealed an indictment today charging a citizen of the Russian Federation and legal permanent resident of the United States with participating in a scheme to make over $4 million in U.S. dollar payments to maintain four real properties in the United States that were owned by Viktor Vekselberg, a sanctioned oligarch, as well as to attempt to sell two of those properties.

News Release: DENVER - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces Kenneth Lawrence Baca, age 44, of Pueblo, was sentenced to 190 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and felon in possession of a firearm.

News Release: A federal jury convicted two men today for engaging in a scheme to defraud Medicare Advantage and Medicaid managed care plans of over $3.8 million.

News Release: Today, a federal jury in Brooklyn convicted Ruslan Maratovich Asainov, a U.S. citizen and former resident of Bay Ridge, New York, of all five counts of an indictment charging him with conspiracy to provide material support to ISIS; providing material support to ISIS in the form of personnel, training...