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Sept. 12, 2024 ¡ª A Providence man has admitted to a federal judge that he participated in an international fraud scheme to defraud the federally-funded pandemic unemployment compensation program of more than $70,000, and to defraud an Alabama-based property title company of an additional $80,000, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.

Sept. 17, 2024 ¡ª A former Frisco man was sentenced yesterday to 52 months in prison and ordered to pay more than $38.9 million in restitution to the IRS, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Leigha Simonton.

June 24, 2024 ¡ª Today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Peter Khaim was sentenced by United States District Judge Ann M. Donnelly to 97 months in prison for using New York-area pharmacies to submit false and fraudulent claims to Medicare and then laundering the criminal proceeds. Khaim¡¯s brother and codefendant, Arkadiy Khaimov, was previously sentenced on April 3, 2024 to six years in prison for his role in the money laundering scheme. Khaim and Khaimov pleaded guilty in November 2022 to conspiracy to commit money laundering. As part of their sentences, Khaim was ordered to pay more than $18 million in restitution and to forfeit more than $2.7 million; Khaimov was ordered to pay more than $18 million in restitution and to forfeit more than $9.6 million.

July 26, 2024 ¡ª A Midlothian man pled guilty yesterday to mail fraud, federal program theft, and tax evasion in connection with a scheme to misappropriate millions of dollars from the Virginia Department of Health (VDH).

Feb. 26, 2025 ¡ª A Harlingen resident and former claims specialist with the Social Security Administration (SSA) has been ordered to federal prison for theft of government property and for failure to appear for sentencing, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei.

March 5, 2025 ¡ª A district judge sentenced a Collinsville woman to 51 months¡¯ imprisonment after she embezzled more than $158,000 and stole the identity of a coworker while employed by AMK Heating and Cooling in Edwardsville.

March 27, 2025 ¡ª Matthew Podolsky, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that Paul Bielecki, a/k/a ¡°Paul HRH Saxe-Coburg-Gotha,¡± a Manhattan-based Franciscan friar, was sentenced to five years in prison for perpetrating a multi-year scheme to obtain donations for a fake medical charity purportedly operating in Beirut, Lebanon. Bielecki previously pled guilty to wire fraud on Nov. 11, 2024, before U.S. District Judge Vincent Briccetti, who imposed today¡¯s sentence.

April 1, 2025 ¡ª Today, Adanegbe Gift Osenmwenkhae (Gift) of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, pled guilty to serving as manager and supervisor of a large, multi-member, money laundering conspiracy.

April 10, 2025 ¨D The United States Attorney¡¯s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that William Freeman, IV of Tobyhanna, Pa., was charged by criminal information with one count of wire fraud and one count of making and subscribing a false tax return.

April 14, 2025 ¡ª The U.S. Attorney¡¯s Office for the Southern District of Ohio and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement¡¯s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) announced today that the United States filed a civil forfeiture complaint against assets related to an investigation into a potential $126 million illegal staffing and money laundering operation.