U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey
Recent News About U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey
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A Middlesex County resident has confessed to defrauding the Social Security Administration over an extended period by collecting her deceased mother's retirement benefits.
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A woman from Burlington County, New Jersey, has been sentenced to 45 months in prison for forced labor and related crimes.
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A New York resident, Joseph Schwartz, has been sentenced to 36 months in prison for participating in a $38 million employment tax fraud scheme associated with nursing homes he owned nationwide. U.S. Attorney Alina Habba announced the sentence,...
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A disbarred attorney from Somerset County, New Jersey, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for defrauding victims in a wire fraud scheme, according to an announcement by U.S. Attorney Alina Habba.
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A Guatemalan national has been charged with allegedly submitting false sponsorship applications to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) in order to gain custody of two unaccompanied alien children.
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Daniel Dadoun, an owner of multiple businesses in New Jersey, has admitted to fraudulently acquiring over $3.2 million from the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). U.S. Attorney Alina Habba made this announcement, noting that Dadoun,...
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A Colombian citizen has been indicted on charges of assaulting a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation officer.
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A Delaware resident has admitted her involvement in a scheme to obtain over $1 million in federal financial relief intended for small businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Two men from Essex County, New Jersey, have confessed to their involvement in the armed robbery of a U.S. Postal Service employee. U.S. Attorney Alina Habba made the announcement recently.
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A Dominican national, Darlin Leon, has been arrested for allegedly assaulting a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation officer, according to an announcement by U.S. Attorney Alina Habba.
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A woman from San Antonio, Texas, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in the District of New Jersey for allegedly creating and selling counterfeit retail coupons that purportedly resulted in losses exceeding $17 million to retailers across...
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A Bergen County man has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for distributing and possessing child pornography, as announced by U.S. Attorney Alina Habba.
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An Essex County man has been sentenced to a total of 46 months in prison for stealing federal benefits intended for the disabled child of his missing former girlfriend and for violating supervised release.
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A Colombian man, Raul Orlando Torres Cubides, known as "Jose Jota," was sentenced to 178 months imprisonment for conspiring to import large quantities of cocaine into the United States.
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A Queens, New York man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for his involvement in a kidnapping case in Paterson, New Jersey.
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A Philadelphia resident, Henry Collins, has admitted to conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) by paying himself and his co-workers in cash, a move intended to avoid payroll taxes.
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An individual from Ocean County, New Jersey, has been charged with traveling abroad to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor, according to an announcement by U.S. Attorney Alina Habba.
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An Ocean County, New Jersey resident has admitted to defrauding the Social Security Administration over nearly eight years, resulting in improper gains of more than $250,000. U.S. Attorney Alina Habba confirmed the development.
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A Mercer County man has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for posting online threats against members of the white community. U.S. Attorney Alina Habba announced that Joshua Cobb, 24, from Trenton, New Jersey, had pleaded guilty to transmitting...
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People’s Rx, Inc., operating as The People’s Pharmacy Shoppe, based in Union City, New Jersey, has agreed to a financial settlement to resolve allegations of False Claims Act violations.