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Dec. 11, 2024 ¡ª A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in federal court to 252 months in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, on his convictions of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, conspiracy to commit money laundering, unlawful possession of a firearm, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced today.

Dec. 16, 2024 ¡ª A physician who worked for an Inland Empire medical company has agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to defraud California¡¯s workers¡¯ compensation fund of millions of dollars by continuing to work on workers¡¯ compensation matters after being suspended due to a prior health care fraud conviction, the Justice Department announced today.

Sept. 6, 2024 ¡ª Kenneth, Christopher, and Irma Flores, the three San Antonio family members who pleaded guilty to government fraud and gratuities charges in August 2023, were sentenced in federal court Friday.

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.

July 17, 2024 ¡ª Irma Olguin, Jr. and Jake Soberal, the founders and leaders of the failed Fresno-based start-up company, Bitwise Industries (¡°Bitwise¡±), pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiring to commit wire fraud and one count of wire fraud, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. They admitted to defrauding investors, lenders, and others out of $115,000,000.

Jan. 23, 2025 ¡ª Russell Thurston, a former executive vice president at Cambridge International Systems, Inc., a defense contractor headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, pleaded guilty in federal court today, admitting that he participated in a bribery scheme with other Cambridge employees and former Naval Information Warfare Center employee James Soriano.

March 14, 2025 ¡ª A Great Falls man was sentenced today to six years and six months in prison for tax crimes and his wire fraud scheme.

March 25, 2025 ¡ª Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Walter Stanzione and William Neogra, the principals of a fire alarm maintenance company, pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy. Both defendants were charged with a decade-long scheme to defraud the City of New York by seeking payment on millions of dollars of grossly inflated fraudulent bills. The proceedings were held before United States Magistrate Judge Joseph A. Marutollo. When sentenced, each defendant faces up to 20 years in prison.

April 7, 2025 ¡ª Michael David Barker of Foster, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Barker admitted to a scheme to defraud the Boone County Schools system by more than $3.4 million while employed as the maintenance director.

January 6, 2023 ¡ª The wife of the former long-time commissioner of an East King County drainage district was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to three years in prison and three years of supervised release for multiple federal felonies connected to a scheme to steal tax dollars intended for flood control, announced U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. Joann Thomas was convicted of 15 federal felonies in May 2022: conspiracy; four counts each of wire fraud and mail fraud, two counts of aggravated identity theft and four counts of money laundering. Because the attorney for Allan Thomas claimed he was unable to adequately represent his client due to illness, the sentencing for Allan Thomas on ten federal felonies was postponed until February 3, 2023.