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September 16, 2022 ¡ª A Los Angeles man was sentenced in federal court today to 38? months in prison for his participation in BitConnect, a massive fraudulent cryptocurrency investment scheme, which defrauded thousands of investors from the United States and abroad.

November 30, 2023 ¡ª An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging two defendants, Walter Stanzione and William Neogra, with wire fraud conspiracy for systematically defrauding the City of New York. The defendants are charged with overbilling New York City agencies for more than a decade in connection with contracts to repair and maintain fire alarm systems.

Jan. 12, 2024 ¡ª Three individuals have been sentenced for their roles in a far-ranging fraud and identity theft ring that stole and laundered over $6 million in government funds that had been obtained using stolen identification information and the opening of fraudulent bank accounts.

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.

March 29, 2023 ¡ª A Pittsburgh resident has been sentenced in federal court to 78 months in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, plus restitution of $3,885,082 on his conviction for bank fraud and money laundering, Acting United States Attorney Troy Rivetti announced today.