U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida
Recent News About U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida
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The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida collected $188,113,543 in criminal and civil debts during fiscal year 2025, according to an announcement by U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Quiñones.
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A Fort Lauderdale financial advisor has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for running an international investment fraud scheme that took more than $94 million from investors, most of whom were Venezuelan nationals.
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The owner of a Fort Pierce-based biofuel company, Christopher Burdett, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges related to a scheme that generated more than $7 million in fraudulent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) renewable fuel credits and...
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Ryan Wesley Routh, 59, has been sentenced to life plus 84 months in federal prison after being convicted for the attempted assassination of then-presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and related violent and firearms offenses.
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The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida joined law enforcement officials at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Miami Field Office to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the deaths of Special Agents Daniel...
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A Florida laboratory owner has admitted to participating in a scheme that defrauded Medicare of over $52 million by submitting false claims for unnecessary genetic testing.
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Medical Services of America, Inc. and Traditional Home Care, Inc., operating as Community Home Health Services, have agreed to pay $702,541.20 to resolve allegations that they violated the Physician Self-Referral Law, also known as the Stark Law.
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The U.S. Department of Justice and the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida have filed a civil denaturalization complaint in federal court against Luis Miguel Fernandez Gaviola, a native of Peru.
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A North Miami man has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after being convicted of kidnapping and firearm offenses following a violent home invasion.
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An Argentine citizen, Osvaldo Daniel Fernandez, 61, has been sentenced to 80 years in federal prison for producing and possessing child sexual abuse material.
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A former Miami Heat security officer, Marcos Tomas Perez, has been sentenced to three years in federal prison and ordered to pay nearly $1.9 million in restitution for stealing and selling hundreds of game-worn jerseys and other memorabilia from...
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Five individuals have been charged in connection with a large-scale money laundering scheme involving tens of millions of dollars, including drug proceeds.
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A federal jury in Fort Lauderdale has found nursing assistant Christian “Chris” Cruz guilty for his involvement in a $11.4 million health care fraud and wire fraud scheme targeting Medicare beneficiaries.
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A federal jury in West Palm Beach has convicted Jasen Butler, 37, of Jupiter, Florida, on 34 felony counts including wire fraud, money laundering, and forgery.
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Two individuals have pleaded guilty to charges connected to a 2022 murder in Miami linked to drug trafficking.
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Two healthcare executives were convicted by a federal jury in Miami on December 22, 2025, for their involvement in a scheme that led to approximately $34 million in false and fraudulent claims submitted to Medicare Advantage plans.
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A federal district court in Miami has accepted guilty pleas from two American men involved in a series of ransomware attacks that targeted multiple victims across the United States in 2023.
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A federal inmate who escaped from a Georgia jail was captured in Broward County, Florida, following a multi-agency law enforcement effort.
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Two Miami residents, Boris Arencibia and Jose Armando Rivera Garcia, have been sentenced to 57 months in federal prison each for their involvement in two schemes related to the sale of diverted and misbranded pharmaceuticals.
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A Georgia businessman has been sentenced to eight years in prison for his involvement in a scheme to bribe Honduran government officials and launder money.