News and reports from the Department of Justice.

A Salvadoran national living in Chelsea, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in federal court to unlawfully reentering the United States after having been deported.

Hilario Dorantes-Ortiz, a 40-year-old Mexican national living in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to 30 days in prison and one year of supervised release for illegal reentry into the United States.

A federal grand jury in Alaska has indicted Michael Edward Gregg, 62, of Anchorage, and Vikash Pandey, 36, an Indian national residing in India, on charges related to a $4.5 million fraud and money laundering scheme that spanned approximately nine...

A former employee of the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency, Janine Rayford, pleaded guilty to charges related to a bribery conspiracy and aggravated identity theft.

Federal authorities have charged two safety inspectors, Liam Treibert and Michael Vasconcellos, with wire fraud for allegedly falsifying hundreds of natural gas pipeline test results across New York City and Westchester County.

A Mexican national living in Pandora, Ohio, has been sentenced after admitting to using a social security number belonging to an inmate at a Texas prison.

A Houston man has been sentenced to 75 months in federal prison after being convicted of leading a Medicare fraud scheme involving falsified medical records.

Michael J. French, 42, of Pendleton, South Carolina, has been sentenced to 13 years in federal prison for operating a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors out of more than $13 million and for cyberstalking two TikTok content creators.

Jessika L. Hiepler, a 47-year-old resident of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for defrauding two nonprofit veterans organizations.

MED-EL Corporation has agreed to pay about $2.1 million to resolve allegations that it falsely certified its eligibility for a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan, according to an announcement from federal authorities.

Joseph Gallego, 37, of York, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to 151 months in prison for drug trafficking.

Corey Boyer and Antonio Smith, both from Atlanta, have been sentenced to federal prison for their roles in distributing methamphetamine and other drugs as members of the GoodFellas street gang.

A Mexican national, Salvador Gonzalez-Sanchez, was sentenced to 40 months in prison and three years of supervised release for illegally reentering the United States after being deported three times.

Mason Jordan, a former officer with the Honolulu Police Department, has been sentenced to 23 years in federal prison for child sex crimes committed while he was an active law enforcement officer.

Former Battle Creek physician Shekhar Thakur has agreed to pay $705,075 to resolve a federal lawsuit alleging improper prescribing of controlled substances.