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Nov. 20, 2024 ¡ª An Oklahoma City, OK woman has been sentenced to 16 years in federal prison for various crimes related to an international drug trafficking conspiracy in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Damien M. Diggs.

Nov. 7, 2024 ¡ª Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Ilya Kahn, a national of the United States, Israel and Russia, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the Export Control Reform Act for his role in a transnational, multimillion-dollar scheme to secure and illegally export dual-use semiconductors and other sensitive technology to Joint Stock Company Research and Development Center ELVEES (Elvees) and other entities in Russia.

Aug. 19, 2024 ¡ª Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that, on Saturday, August 17, 2024, Pawel Bielecki, aka ¡°Paul Bielecki,¡± aka ¡°Paul HRH Saxe-Coburg-Gotha,¡± aka ¡°Dr. Phaakon Sonderburg-Glucksburg,¡± aka ¡°Father Paul,¡± aka ¡°Father Kowal,¡± was arrested on charges of wire fraud and mail fraud. Bielecki will be presented in White Plains federal court before U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew E. Krause.

Jan. 15, 2025 ¡ª Eleven defendants have been sentenced for their roles in a large methamphetamine trafficking ring.

Jan. 29, 2025 ¡ª Seven defendants, including an owner, president, chief financial officer, and controller of a Joplin, Mo., corporation, have pleaded guilty in federal court to their roles in a racketeering conspiracy to transport, hire, and harbor undocumented workers in several Midwestern states.

April 17, 2025 ¡ª Four indictments were unsealed in federal court charging 16 individuals throughout San Diego County with distributing large quantities of methamphetamine, fentanyl and heroin and laundering drug-trafficking proceeds.

May 28, 2024 ¡ª An Israeli man today admitted conspiring with Eliyahu "Eli" Weinstein, whose 24-year federal prison sentence was commuted after being twice convicted of defrauding investors of a total of $230 million, and others to defraud investors of more than $35 million in a new fraud scheme, and to conspiring to engage in money laundering and obstruct justice, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

May 31, 2024 ¡ª Five Chinese nationals are scheduled to be arraigned today after their arrest on federal charges alleging they operated a large-scale, trans-Pacific counterfeit Apple Inc. device scheme that included the fraudulent returns of thousands of iPhones, iPads, and other Apple goods and caused the Cupertino-based technology company at least $12.3 million in losses.

May 13, 2022 ¡ª Twenty-five people - twenty residents of Erie, Pennsylvania, a resident of Meadville, Pennsylvania, a resident of New Jersey, a resident of Orlando, Florida, and two residents of Puerto Rico - have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.

July 26, 2022 ¡ª Timothy Edmunds, the former financial secretary treasurer of Local 412 of the United Auto Workers union, was sentenced to 57 months in prison today based on his convictions for embezzling $2.1 million in union funds and for money laundering announced U.S. Attorney Dawn N. Ison.