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Nov. 22, 2024 ¡ª A federal jury in Brooklyn returned a guilty verdict yesterday against Avraham Tarshish for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, and related wire fraud counts, in connection with a scheme to defraud mortgage loan holders, including the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) and other mortgage lending businesses. The verdict followed a 12-day trial before Chief United States District Judge Margo K. Brodie. When sentenced, the defendant faces up to 30 years in prison.

Feb. 3, 2025 ¡ª Patrick Strauss of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 48 months of probation ¨C including six months of home confinement to be followed by a period of intermittent incarceration, that is, 26 weekends in jail ¨C and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $304,900 and fined $8,784, all for participating in a conspiracy that fraudulently obtained more than $304,000 in Paycheck Protection Program loans.

Aug. 27, 2024 ¡ª An indictment was unsealed in federal court Aug. 27 charging the owners of a local real estate investment company with defrauding individual investors and commercial lenders out of more than $18 million.

June 27, 2024 ¡ª Marcello Banes, Chairman of the Newton County Board of Commissioners, and Stephanie Lindsey, a real estate broker and attorney, have been indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiring to launder money obtained from wire fraud and honest services wire fraud.

April 18, 2024 ¡ª An Illinois man made his initial appearance today on an indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Chicago charging him with 21 counts of preparing false tax returns for others.

May 15, 2025 ¡ª PORTLAND, Ore.¡ªThe owner of a local real estate investment company pleaded guilty today for his role in an $18 million fraud scheme, joining his business partner and co-owner of the company who pleaded guilty in March 2025.

May 4, 2022 ¡ª Ehab Kodsi, of Watervliet, New York, pled guilty today to filing a false tax return and admitted to deliberately underreporting his income from 2015 to 2018.

November 3, 2022 ¡ª Ehab Kodsi, of Watervliet, New York, was sentenced today to pay restitution in the amount of $245,212, and to pay an additional $25,000 fine, after admitting to filing a false tax return and deliberately underreporting his income from 2015 to 2018.

Feb. 9, 2024 ¡ª?A real estate developer and part-time resident of Vancouver, Washington, was sentenced to federal prison today for fraudulently obtaining Covid-relief program funds and laundering a portion of the proceeds while on federal supervised release for a previous fraud conviction.

November 20, 2023 ¡ª Daniel L. Speedy, of Cambridge, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 12 months and one day in prison for filing false income tax returns. Speedy pleaded guilty on December 1, 2021.