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Nov. 15, 2024 ¡ª Larry Dean Harmon of Akron, Ohio, was sentenced today to three years in prison for his operation of the darknet cryptocurrency ¡°mixer¡± Helix, which processed transactions involving over $300 million worth of cryptocurrency from 2014 to 2017.

Nov. 18, 2024 ¡ª Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Frank Butselaar pled guilty on Thursday, November 14, 2024, to one count of aiding or assisting in the filing of a false or fraudulent tax return. Butselaar pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel, to whom his case is assigned.

Nov. 18, 2024 ¡ª A Boston man was sentenced on Nov. 15, 2024 for fraud and false statements charges in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain pandemic-related relief funds from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) made available under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act.

Nov. 18, 2024 ¡ª A former inmate at the Buckingham Correctional Center in Dillwyn, Va. (Buckingham) was sentenced today in connection with leading conspiracies to distribute controlled substances and launder the proceeds in Massachusetts and inside the Virginia prison.

Nov. 18, 2024 ¡ª A West New York financial advisor was sentenced today to 41 months in prison for 11 counts of defrauding public health insurance plans out of more than $4 million and transacting in the criminal proceeds, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

Nov. 18, 2024 ¡ª A New York man today admitted his role in a $38 million employment tax fraud scheme involving nursing homes he owned across the country, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

Nov. 19, 2024 ¡ª United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad announced that on November 19, 2024, U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman accepted the guilty plea of William S. Gallagher to one count of failure to truthfully account for and pay over employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), in violation of 26 U.S.C. ¡ì 7202.

Nov. 19, 2024 ¡ª Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Robert Fuller, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Harry T. Chavis, Jr., Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, today announced that Yasir G. Hamed of Woodbridge, has been charged by federal criminal complaint with offenses stemming from an alleged scheme to defraud a COVID-19 pandemic relief program of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Nov. 19, 2024 ¡ª An Eden Prairie man has been sentenced to 87 months in federal prison, three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay restitution for fraudulently applying for more than $2.1 million in COVID-19 relief funds and then spending those proceeds on himself, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.

Nov. 19, 2024 ¡ª A Colombian man has been extradited to the United States from the Republic of Colombia to face charges related to his alleged role in a sophisticated money laundering organization that laundered over $2 million in drug trafficking proceeds.