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Jan. 19, 2024 ¡ª A Long Beach man was sentenced today to life plus an additional 30 years in federal prison for building and planting a package bomb that detonated inside an Aliso Viejo day spa in May 2018, killing his ex-girlfriend, severely injuring two spa clients, and causing significant damage to a commercial office building.

Feb. 2, 2024 ¡ª Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Thomas Fattorusso, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (¡°CI¡±); and Christopher A. Nielsen, the Inspector in Charge of the Philadelphia Division of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (¡°USPIS¡±), announced today the unsealing of an Indictment charging Mohanad Al-Zubaidi, Shaker Saleh Mohammed Hauter, and Abdulkader Noori Hamza with conspiring to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business that was responsible for illicitly moving more than $65 million between the United States and countries in the Middle East, including Yemen, Turkey, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, and Jordan.

Feb. 7, 2024 ¡ª The co-owner and the administrator of a Union City, New Jersey, pharmacy today admitted their roles in conspiracies to defraud pharmacy benefit managers and health care benefit providers, including Medicare and Medicaid, of more than $65 million and to pay kickbacks and bribes to health care professionals and their staffs in exchange for referrals of prescriptions, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

Feb. 13, 2024 ¡ª Five people were indicted on multiple charges Feb. 13 and arraigned in federal court in Brooklyn. All are being charged with wire fraud and bank fraud in a Treasury check washing conspiracy, while three are being charged with defrauding the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). Jamel Woods, also known as "Richard Carter." Juanita Evans, Troy Melville, Desmond Robertson, and Raphael Williams, also known as ¡°Fatboy", collectively face a total of 14 charges.

March 19, 2024 ¡ª Felipe de Jesus Ornelas Mora, the owner of Rincon Musical, a money transmitting business in Oakland, was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison following his conviction for conspiracy to commit money laundering, announced First Assistant United States Attorney Patrick D. Robbins; IRS Criminal Investigation (CI) Acting Special Agent in Charge Michael Mosley of the Oakland Field Office; and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), San Francisco Field Division, Special Agent in Charge Brian M. Clark. The sentence was handed down by the Hon. Jeffrey S. White, Senior United States District Judge.

November 6, 2023 ¡ª An estimated 10 million doses of controlled substances have been seized, including eight million doses of fentanyl and methamphetamine laced pills and powder. The total street value of the drugs seized is upwards of $8 million. Three men have been arrested in connection with allegedly running this large-scale drug trafficking organization (DTO) on the North Shore of Massachusetts.

April 4, 2023 ¡ª Former San Diego Police Vice Detective Peter Griffin and three co-defendants pleaded guilty in federal court today in connection with their operation of five illicit massage businesses in California and Arizona that profited for years by exploiting women to engage in commercial sexual services under the guise of offering therapeutic massage services.

SAN FRANCISCO ¨C Kenneth W. Mattson, of Sonoma, was arrested today pursuant to an indictment returned by a federal grand jury charging him with wire fraud, money laundering, and obstruction of justice.

May 12, 2025 ¡ª On May 6, 2025, a federal grand jury in Louisville returned a superseding indictment charging three men with conspiring to kill, and ultimately murdering, a witness in a federal investigation.

Jan. 22, 2025 ¡ª Earlier today, at the federal court in Central Islip, an indictment was unsealed charging Keith Williams, Janine Davis, Morais Dicks, James Hames, Jr., Jamari Lewis, Ewendra Mathurin, and Tiffany Williams with conspiracy to defraud the United States, wire fraud, and aiding and assisting the preparation of false tax returns. Six defendants were arrested this morning in New York and will be arraigned this afternoon before United States District Judge Gary R. Brown. Jamari Lewis is not in custody and will be arraigned in the Eastern District of New York at a later date.