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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.

April 22, 2025 ¡ª Thomas G. Ehr, a longtime associate of a former defense contractor, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to an Information charging him with conspiring to defraud the United States.

January 5, 2023 ¡ª A Rocheport, Missouri, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for using her payroll services business in a $1.5 million fraud and embezzlement scheme.

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June 22, 2022 ¡ª Edward Scott Finn, of Dunkirk, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to a federal tax evasion charge. Finn is a former Lieutenant with the Prince George's County Police Department and owned and operated Edward Finn Inc. (EFI), a private company.

June 22, 2022 ¡ª A Kenyon woman was sentenced to 111 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and $1,058,777.18 in restitution for embezzling more than $881,000 from the owners of several Denny¡¯s restaurant franchises around the Twin Cities and from a family-owned construction company in Rochester, announced United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger.