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Jan. 11, 2024 ¡ª A federal grand jury has indicted a Koreatown lawyer with multiple felonies arising from an alleged $2.1 million bribe, which he received while serving as an officer of Nigeria's state-owned oil company in connection with negotiating favorable drilling rights for a subsidiary of a Chinese state-owned oil company, the Justice Department announced today.

April 1, 2024 ¡ª A federal jury returned guilty verdicts on 3 offenses on March 28, 2024, against Larry Dean Gibbs of Pembroke Township, Illinois, for Filing False Federal Income Tax Returns. Sentencing for Gibbs has been scheduled for July 17, 2024, at the U.S. Courthouse in Urbana, Illinois.

April 15, 2024 ¡ª Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that a jury returned a guilty verdict against Joseph Eugene Lemay, a/k/a ¡°Gene Lemay,¡± and Joel Lingat for criminal tax conspiracy. Lemay is the former president of a company that provides moving and storage services (¡°Company-1¡±), and Lingat is Company-1¡¯s head bookkeeper. Lemay and Lingat conspired to perpetrate a long-running scheme to evade more than approximately $7.7 million in federal payroll taxes owed by Company-1 and affiliated companies to the Internal Revenue Service (¡°IRS¡±). The defendants were found guilty following a two-week trial before U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vysckocil.

October 11, 2023 ¡ª U.S. District Judge Charlene E. Honeywell today sentenced Qing McGaha to seven years and eight months in federal prison for unlawful drug distribution, money laundering, and filing a false tax return.

October 26, 2023 ¡ª Dawnell Parker of Athens, Alabama, pleaded guilty in federal court today to bribery charges, admitting that while she was a public official at Naval Information Warfare Center in San Diego, she accepted thousands of dollars in free meals from defense contractors in exchange for helping them win and maintain millions of dollars in government contracts.

May 11, 2023 ¡ª A Washington, woman pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to wire fraud and tax fraud charges for her 10-year embezzlement scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. Christin Guillory, an Accounting Manager at an Everett-based manufacturing company, stole more than $2.5 million from her employer by transferring funds to accounts Guillory set up in the names of fake companies and then routing the funds to her own bank accounts. Guillory faces up to 20 years in prison when sentenced by U.S. District Judge Ricardo S. Martinez on August 11, 2023.

Dec. 3, 2024 ¡ª U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Katherine Mott-Formicola of Pittsford, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to financial institution fraud and money laundering, which carry a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a fine of $1,000,000.

Jan. 17, 2025 ¡ª Zipora Hudson and Montreal Hudson, both of Olive Branch, Mississippi, were convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering following a federal jury trial that concluded on Jan. 15, 2025. Deandre Jones, also of Olive Branch, Mississippi, previously pled guilty in the case.

Feb. 5, 2025 ¡ª James Watt of Indianapolis, has been sentenced to 3 years of probation after pleading guilty to unlawful production of document or authentication feature and money laundering.

March 12, 2025 ¡ª A federal jury today convicted Rowland Marcus Andrade of wire fraud and money laundering in connection with the fraudulent marketing and sale of a cryptocurrency called AML Bitcoin, a scheme that raised millions of dollars through false and misleading statements to investors about the cryptocurrency and the purported technology behind it. The jury reached its verdict following a five-week trial before Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg.