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Casino Employee Sentenced to Ten Years in Federal Prison for Distributing Child Pornography
By Homeland Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: A federal grand jury indicted Pruitt on July 17, 2018, on one count of distributing and one count of accessing child pornography. According to Count 2, he used a cell phone to access child pornography stored on an Internet-based cloud storage service between Aug. 20, 2015, and March 13, 2018. Count ...
U.S. Postal Service Employee Sentenced for Embezzling Postal Money Orders
By Homeland Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: Rashayna Seney, 26, of Randolph, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Senior Judge Douglas P. Woodlock to time served (one day) and three years of supervised release with the special condition that during the first year she serve 74 days of intermittent confinement at a residential re-entry center. Judge ...
Jacksonville Woman Pleads Guilty To Committing Aggravated Identity Theft and Fraud While On Federal Supervised Release
By Homeland Newswire | May 17, 2019
News Release: According to court documents, in 2006, after being found guilty at trial for participating in a scheme involving the passing of counterfeit checks, Streeter was sentenced to seven years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release. After she was released from prison and while on federal ...
Two Men Plead Guilty to Counterfeit Currency Conspiracy
By Homeland Newswire | May 17, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. Two Washington, D.C. men pleaded guilty this week to conspiring to pass counterfeit currency.
Texas Woman Sentenced For Conspiracy to Commit Mail and Wire Fraud as Part of Lottery Scam
By Homeland Newswire | May 17, 2019
News Release: According to court documents, in or before August 2013, and continuing through December 2015, KROM and others operated a scheme to contact elderly individuals and people with diminished capacity. The scheme involved contacting victims by telephone through Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and informing them that they had won a lottery and needed to pay KROM and others monies by cash, check, wire, or other methods in order to claim their lottery winnings.
Pelion Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Loan Fraud
By Homeland Newswire | May 17, 2019
News Release: Facts presented in court established that Jeffcoat is an accountant who was producing false documentation in support of loan applications and giving that information to an Arthur State Bank loan officer. The officer than facilitated approvals for mortgages and other loans using the fake documents. Some ...
Goznym Cyber-Criminal Network Operating Out of Europe Targeting American Entities Dismantled in International Operation
By Homeland Newswire | May 17, 2019
News Release: GozNym infected tens of thousands of victim computers worldwide, primarily in the United States and Europe. The operation was highlighted by the unprecedented initiation of criminal prosecutions against members of the network in four different countries as a result of cooperation between the United States, Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, Germany, Bulgaria, Europol and Eurojust.
Orlando Woman Pleads Guilty To Committing Fraud While On Federal Supervised Release
By Homeland Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: According to court documents, in 2013, Williams was sentenced to five years and three months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for participating in a scheme involving counterfeit travelers checks that were passed at Target stores located throughout the southeastern United ...
Savannah woman indicted for money laundering conspiracy
By Homeland Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: Money diverted from others retirement accounts
Connecticut Resident Charged with Making
By Homeland Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: As alleged in the indictment, in September 2018, Gravelle used the U.S. mail, e-mail and telephone to threaten to harm people and explode property in Connecticut, Vermont and Washington. Certain letters that Gravelle mailed contained a white powdery substance and statements that the substance was Anthrax, ...
Man Indicted For Threating To Kill The President, A Judge, His Wife, and a Secret Service Agent
By Homeland Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Meghan A. Tokash, who is handling the case, stated that
Nevada Cardiologist Sentenced To Three Years In Prison For Unlawful Distribution Of Opioids
By Homeland Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada, Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse of the FBIs Las Vegas Division, Resident Agent in Charge Marc C. Kuzmicki of the DEAs Reno Office, and Special Agent in Charge Christian J. Schrank of the Office of Inspector General, for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office Los Angeles Region made the announcement.
Coral Springs Man Sentenced To More Than Four Years in Federal Prison for Check Counterfeiting Scheme
By Homeland Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: The court also ordered Griffin to pay nearly $80,000 in restitution to financial institutions. Griffin had pleaded guilty on Feb. 21, 2019, to seven counts of bank fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud.
Secret Service Graduates the First Female into the Motorcycle Support Unit
By Homeland Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: I grew up in a small town of 400 people, so I would take my motorcycle everywhere because I wanted to see everything, Gunawan said. My favorite ride was to Iowa, I would ride up and down the Mississippi river valley every chance I had.
Bronx Man Sentenced To 39 Months In Prison For Participating In Scheme To Take Over Ride-Sharing Driver Accounts
By Homeland Newswire | May 6, 2019
News Release: PINA previously pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit access device fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft before U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff, who imposed todays sentence. PINA is the eighth defendant to have pled guilty in this case.
CEO of medical equipment company sentenced to 40 months for Medicare fraud
By Homeland Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: Criminal enterprise is first sentence in nationwide 'Operation Brace Yourself'
Maine and New York Residents Arrested and Charged with
By Homeland Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: Christopher Cruz, 30, of Bronx; and Christopher Martinez, 29, of Bronx, were charged today by criminal. complaint in U.S. District Court with possession with intent to distribute cocaine. base. Timothy Cates, 40, of Cutler was charged today by criminal complaint in U.S. District Court with maintaining ...
Special Agent in Charge of the Vice Presidential Protective Division Awarded Aguila Statue Award.
By Homeland Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: Thanks to the mentoring and friendship Hernandez received from the Hispanic American Police Command Officers Association (HAPCOA) and the Secret Service, he pressed forward. Now, he is the Special Agent in Charge of the Vice Presidential Protective Division and is receiving HAPCOAs most prestigious award.
International Malvertiser Extradited from Netherlands to Face Hacking Charges in New Jersey
By Homeland Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: Defendant Conspired to Expose Millions of Internet Users to Malicious Advertisements Designed to Hack and Infect Victims Computers with Malware
Harvey Man Indicted For Conspiracy to Commit Bank and Wire Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft
By Homeland Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: WATSON was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud, three counts of bank fraud, three counts of wire fraud, and four counts of aggravated identity theft.