U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennslyvania
Recent News About U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennslyvania
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A Philadelphia resident, Mahady Sacko, has been arrested and charged with fraudulent voting in the 2024 federal election.
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Montez Moore, a 32-year-old Philadelphia resident, has been sentenced to 32 years in federal prison following a series of armed robberies and related crimes that took place between 2021 and 2023.
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Josh S. Verne, 48, formerly of Gladwyne, Pennsylvania and now residing in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was sentenced to over nine years in prison for defrauding dozens of investors and associates out of millions of dollars.
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A Bethlehem, Pennsylvania man was found guilty of election fraud related to the 2020 presidential election.
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A correctional officer and his former supervisor at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility in Philadelphia have been convicted for violating an inmate’s constitutional rights and attempting to cover up the incident.
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Two Philadelphia men have been sentenced in connection with an armed carjacking that took place on August 5, 2023.
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John A. Miller, the former executive director and treasurer of a Philadelphia religious nonprofit, pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering charges in federal court.
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Nasir Warlow, a 21-year-old resident of Philadelphia, has pleaded guilty to charges of carjacking and using a firearm during a crime of violence.
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A Bath, Pennsylvania man has pleaded guilty to multiple counts of fraud related to pandemic unemployment assistance and schemes targeting local car dealerships.
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Phillip Gillard, 48, of Philadelphia, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for his role in a drug trafficking organization that operated in the Port Richmond area of the city.
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The final individual among six defendants accused of participating in a scheme to remove or destroy evidence from an impounded vehicle has been arrested, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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Geoffrey Magistrate, a 61-year-old resident of Limassol, Cyprus and former Pennsylvania resident, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for money laundering.
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Christos Sinchuk Rallis, a 52-year-old resident of Warrington, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to 100 months in prison and ten years of supervised release for child pornography offenses.
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Carlos Sacanell, a 59-year-old resident of Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to two years in prison and fined $5,000 for insider trading related to CVS Health Corporation's acquisition of Oak Street Health in 2023.
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Symair Carson-Williams, also known as “Lil Meer,” was sentenced to 253 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay over $10,000 in restitution for his involvement in a series of armed carjackings in Philadelphia.
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Robert Redding, a 43-year-old resident of Philadelphia, has been sentenced to 35 years in federal prison and ten years of supervised release for offenses related to child pornography.
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Afeez Olatunji Adewale, 26, has been extradited from Nigeria to the United States to face charges in connection with the sexual extortion and death of a young man in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. U.S. Attorney David Metcalf announced that...
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Cristian Geovanni Rojas Benitez, a 37-year-old Mexican national, was sentenced to 14 months in prison for assaulting a federal agent with a vehicle.
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Kristian Jackson, a 20-year-old Philadelphia resident, was sentenced to eight and a half years in federal prison for his involvement in an armed carjacking that took place in West Philadelphia in September 2024.
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A Department of Defense employee has been indicted for allegedly acting as a money mule and laundering millions of dollars on behalf of overseas scammers, according to an announcement by United States Attorney David Metcalf.