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May 29, 2024 ¡ª Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Rupert De Las Casas of Miami, Florida, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to approximately 85 months of imprisonment, time already served, and three years of supervised release for his participation in two separate cocaine trafficking conspiracies.

June 20, 2025 ¡ª Seven Georgia residents are charged by federal indictment with allegedly conspiring to ship thousands of parcels containing fentanyl and methamphetamine across the United States and in the Middle District of Georgia utilizing the dark web vendor account ¡°WallStreetBets.¡± The final defendants were arraigned in federal court this week following arrests and seizures resulting from the ongoing investigation.

March 12, 2024 ¡ª Roman Sterlingov, a citizen of Russia and Sweden, was found guilty today of operating among the longest-running and most prolific bitcoin money laundering services on the darknet.

June 18, 2024 ¡ª A grand jury today indicted a Morton, Illinois man, Aaron Rossi (¡°Rossi¡±), on six counts of healthcare fraud, one count of mail fraud, and four counts of wire fraud for allegedly defrauding the State of Illinois and public and private health insurance companies out of hundreds of thousands of dollars during the COVID-19 pandemic.

March 18, 2024 ¡ª Four men were sentenced last week for participating in an eight-year investment fraud and money laundering scheme that defrauded over a dozen victims around the world out of more than $18 million.

January 4, 2023 ¡ª The former manager of the New Jersey Traumatic Brain Injury Fund (TBI Fund) and one of his conspirators today admitted their roles in a long-running scheme to defraud the fund, a publicly funded health care benefit program, of more than $4.5 million, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

Sept. 13, 2024 ¡ª The second of two Nigerian men residing in Canada pleaded guilty Thursday September 12, 2024, in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft for his fraud scheme that stole more than $1.3 million in federal funds, announced U.S. Attorney Tessa M. Gorman. Fatiu Ismaila Lawal, was extradited from Canada in mid-July. U.S. District Judge Robert J. Bryan scheduled his sentencing for December 12, 2024.

June 21, 2024 ¡ª An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Boston charging former Massachusetts state senator Dean Tran and his sister for allegedly attempting to cover up a sham job offer from the sister¡¯s company to Tran.

May 10, 2024 ¡ª The United States Attorney¡¯s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jose L. Ortiz of Drums, Pennsylvania, was charged May 8, 2024, in a criminal Information with conspiring to commit honest services fraud.

April 24, 2025 ¡ª A federal jury has convicted Juan Hernandez a Mexican-national living in Oklahoma City, Jessica Muniz of Oklahoma City, and Denis Leal Gutierrez, Cesar Azamar, and Adrian Narvaez of Texas, for their roles in a drug trafficking organization (DTO) that specialized in transporting liquid methamphetamine by semi-truck from Mexico, through Texas, to Oklahoma City, and laundering the subsequent drug proceeds, announced U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.