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Riverside, CA ¨C The owner of Orange County-based temporary staffing companies was sentenced today to 96 months in federal prison for willfully evading the payment of nearly $30 million in taxes, penalties and interest, assessed against him to the IRS as well as causing a false tax return to be filed with the IRS as part of defendant¡¯s efforts to conceal nearly $30 million in additional tax liabilities incurred by his staffing companies.

July 3, 2024 ¡ª A 30-count indictment was unsealed today in U.S. District Court charging Douglas Edelman, a former defense contractor, and Delphine Le Dain, his wife, with a decades-long scheme to defraud the United States and evade taxes on more than $350 million in income Edelman made as a defense contractor during the United States¡¯ post-9/11 military efforts in Afghanistan and the Middle East.

July 5, 2024 ¡ª A Morton, Illinois, man, Aaron J. Rossi, was sentenced on July 2, 2024, to five years in prison and ordered to pay more than $3 million in restitution and fines for his scheme to defraud his former employer and filing of false income taxes.

July 23, 2024 ¡ª Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Francius Marganda, an Indonesian national, pleaded guilty to securities fraud in connection with a $23 million Ponzi scheme that defrauded hundreds of predominantly Indonesian and Indo-American victim investors.

June 16, 2023 ¡ª Former Advanced Nurse Practitioner Jessica Joyce Spayd was sentenced in U.S. District Court yesterday to 30 years (360 months) imprisonment for illegally prescribing and dispensing opioids outside the scope of legitimate medical practice that resulted in the deaths of five people between 2014 and 2019. United States District Judge Joshua M. Kindred handed down the sentence.

November 29, 2023 ¡ª The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Creed White of Freeland, Maryland, was charged in a criminal information with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and engaging in an unlawful monetary transaction.

December 19, 2023 ¡ª U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron has sentenced Louisaint Jolteus, Michael Jean Poix, Monika Shauntel Jenkins, Alain Jean-Louis, Louis Noel Michel, and Jeff Jordan Propht-Francisque to federal prison terms for their roles in a RICO conspiracy that involved cyber intrusions and millions of dollars of tax fraud. Andi Jacques, Dickenson Elan, and Vladimyr Cherelus will be sentenced next year for their involvement in the conspiracy.

January 5, 2024 ¡ª Today, a south Florida defendant pled guilty to participating in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a synthetic opioid, protonitazene.

Jan. 11, 2024 ¡ª William Koo Ichioka was sentenced to serve four years in prison and ordered to pay a $5 million fine for committing multiple felonies in connection with an investment fraud scheme involving cryptocurrencies and other investment vehicles. The sentence was handed down by the Hon. Vince Chhabria, United States District Judge.

Feb. 14, 2024 ¡ª An arraignment is scheduled this afternoon for the final defendant arrested on a federal grand jury indictment that alleges a scheme to smuggle fentanyl, methamphetamine and heroin from Mexico into the United States ¨C narcotics that allegedly were packed into fire extinguishers and concealed in scrap metal loads.