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August 18, 2023 ¡ª The former operations manager of a Union City, New Jersey, pharmacy today admitted his role in multimillion-dollar conspiracies to defraud health care insurers, including Medicare and Medicaid, and to pay kickbacks and bribes to health care professionals, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

Feb. 6, 2025 ¡ª A former Japanese-language interpreter was sentenced today to 57 months in federal prison for illegally ¨C and without authorization ¨C transferring nearly $17 million from the bank account of Major League Baseball (MLB) star Shohei Ohtani to pay off his own substantial gambling debts incurred with an illegal bookmaking operation and for signing a false tax return.

Feb. 28, 2025 ¡ª A former Stoneham police officer has been sentenced in federal court in Boston for a bribery and kickback scheme that netted millions of dollars in Mass Save contracts.

March 27, 2025 ¡ª A Killeen man was sentenced in a federal court in Waco to 120 months in prison for buying and selling U.S. Army equipment that had been stolen by soldiers and former soldiers.

April 23, 2025 ¡ª Following a three-week trial, a federal jury in Minneapolis convicted three Minnesota men today of RICO Conspiracy and Premediated Murder for their involvement in the violent Minneapolis criminal street gang known as the Highs and the August 7, 2021, gang-related murder of Darryl Wells.

April 25, 2025 ¡ª A federal grand jury in Louisville, Kentucky, returned a multi-count indictment on April 16, 2025, charging seven foreign nationals with money laundering related offenses and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person.

April 24, 2025 ¡ª Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Roberto Gustavo Cortes Ripalda (Cortes), the co-founder, co-owner, and former Chief Executive Officer of the international investment advisory firm Biscayne Capital, was sentenced by United States District Judge Carol Bagley Amon to 10 years in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Cortes pleaded guilty to the charge in September 2023 after being charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. As part of the sentence, Cortes was also ordered to pay $3.4 million in forfeiture and $103 million in restitution to over 110 victims.

May 15, 2024 ¡ª Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Lisa Monaco, the Deputy Attorney General of the United States; and Thomas Fattorusso, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS CI), announced today the unsealing of an indictment charging Anton Peraire-Bueno and James Peraire-Bueno with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

September 15, 2022 ¡ª A Jefferson City man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for a more than $27.1 million fraud scheme that included more than $12.4 million in PPP loans for four businesses, as well as a fraudulent loan for a development in Indiana.

September 20, 2022 ¡ª Elias Eldabbagh, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for carrying out a scheme to steal more than $31 million under the CARES Act and laundering the proceeds of the crime. Eldabbagh succeeded in stealing $2,385,000 under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program.