Latest News


Public Safety

Metairie Man Pleads Guilty to Being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm

News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that RANDOLPH B. MARTIN, age 39, of Metairie, pled guilty today to a one-count Bill of Information with violation of the Federal Gun Control Act.


Public Safety

Nigerian Citizen Convicted of Defrauding at Least Half a Million Dollars from U.S. Victims

News Release: HOUSTON A 25-year-old Nigerian man who was residing in Houston has pleaded guilty to perpetuating a wire fraud scheme involving various Internet scams, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.


Public Safety

New York Man Sentenced to Prison for Leading Multi-State Scheme to Obtain New Cell Phones

News Release: BOSTON - A New York man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with a fraudulent scheme to obtain and re-sell more than $330,000 worth of new cell phones and for resuming the scheme after being indicted and released pending trial.


Public Safety

Secret Service Remembers Fallen Colleagues on the 22nd Anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing

News Release: Washington, D.C. Wednesday, April 19, 1995, was a tragic day for the United States and no less for the Secret Service. Timothy McVeigh, a former Army Gulf War Veteran, and his coconspirator, Terry Nichols, detonated a bomb inside a rental truck near the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, ...


Public Safety

Tampa Man Charged With Trafficking in Credit Card Manufacturing Equipment

News Release: Jacksonville, Florida Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces the return of an indictment charging Joseph Xavier Murphy (27, Tampa) with trafficking in credit card manufacturing equipment. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in federal prison. Murphy was arrested by ...


Public Safety

South Florida Man Sentenced to 60 Months in Prison for Tax Return Fraud

News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA Roosevelt Williams Jr., 25, of Miami, Florida, has been sentenced to 60 months in federal prison after pleading guilty in December 2016 for crimes arising from the filing of fraudulent federal income tax returns. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.


Public Safety

Fugitive Pleads Guilty in $200 Million Credit Card Fraud Scam

News Release: TRENTON, N.J. A New York man today admitted his role in one of the largest credit card fraud schemes ever charged by the Justice Department, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.


Public Safety

Member of ATM Skimming Conspiracy Targeting Multiple New Jersey Bank Locations Pleads Guilty

News Release: NEWARK, N.J. A member of a scheme that used secret card-reading devices and pinhole cameras on PNC and Bank of America ATMs to steal at least $428,581 pleaded guilty today in Newark federal court.


Public Safety

Cincinnati Woman Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement Scheme, Defrauding IRS

News Release: CINCINNATI Angelia Zwick, also known as Angelia Strunk, 46, of Cincinnati, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to charges related to an embezzlement scheme that defrauded her employer. Specifically, she pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of willfully filing a false income tax return with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).


Public Safety

Man Admits Guilt in Stolen Identity Refund Fraud Scheme Using Hacked UPMC Employee Information

News Release: PITTSBURGH - A foreign national residing outside of the United States pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of money laundering and aggravated identity theft, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.


Public Safety

Home Health Care Owners Indicted for Fraud

News Release: A Houston couple is set to appear in federal court on charges they fraudulently billed more than $24 million to Medicare through several home health companies, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Oluyemisi Amos, 35, and her husband Felix Amos, 66, are charged in an eight-count indictment with conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health care fraud and money laundering.


Public Safety

Austin Attorney and Business Partner Plead Guilty to Multi-Million Dollar Investment Fraud

News Release: Austin residents Robert Allen Helms and Janniece S. Kaelin pleaded guilty today to federal charges of defrauding investors in companies that presumably were in the business of purchasing oil and gas royalties, announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.; Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) ...


Public Safety

Secret Service Directors Awards Ceremony

News Release: The United States Secret Service honored 61 of its employees during the 5th annual Directors Awards


Public Safety

Former Organization Director Sentenced to a Year in Prison for Theft of Nearly $250,000 From Employer

News Release: (Washington, D.C.) Tamara Kukla, who worked as the Director of Membership for


Public Safety

Madison Man Sentenced for Scheme to Pass Counterfeit $100 Bills

News Release: MADISON, WIS. Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Dominique Gaunichaux, 19, Madison, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William Conley to eight months in federal prison for his role in passing counterfeit U.S. currency ...


Public Safety

Louisiana Man Pleads Guilty to Having Counterfeit Money

News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA Nicholas Ross McCullen, of Lake Charles, Louisiana, was convicted today for possessing counterfeit money, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.


Public Safety

Waterbury Man Arrested in Credit Card "Bust Out" Scheme

News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JANZAYB KHAN, 28, of Waterbury, was arrested today on a criminal complaint charging him with bank fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud, and making a false oath and false statement under penalty of perjury in a bankruptcy case. The charges stem from an alleged credit card bust-out scheme that defrauded over a dozen financial institutions.


Public Safety

Man Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Production of Child Pornography

News Release: Stephen A. Turner, 36, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois to 27 years in federal prison for production of child pornography, announced Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois. Turner will also be subject ...


Public Safety

Wetzel County Man Convicted of Passing Counterfeit Money and Illegally Possessing a Firearm

News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA Franklin K. Dotson, 32, of New Martinsville, West Virginia, was convicted today for passing counterfeit money and being a felon in possession of a firearm, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced. Dotson admits to using counterfeit money at the 7 Eleven in New Martinsville in February 2017.


Public Safety

Fairlawn, New Jersey, Tax Preparer Pleads Guilty to Tax Fraud

News Release: NEWARK, N.J. A Fairlawn, New Jersey, tax preparer today admitted preparing fraudulent income tax returns on behalf of her clients, causing losses of over $130,000, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.