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March 18, 2025 ¡ª A Miami man pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiring with others to defraud the United States by concealing millions of dollars in assets and income in undisclosed Swiss bank accounts.

March 18, 2025 ¡ª Oleg Beretsky was charged with conspiring to commit health care fraud, violating the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, conspiring to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute and money laundering conspiracy.

March 24, 2025 ¡ª A Newark-based expediter today admitted to conspiring to give bribes to Newark public officials, including then-Newark Councilmember Joseph A. McCallum, Jr., in connection with real estate development and construction-related transactions and conspiring with others to create and sell falsified documents supposedly issued by the City of Newark in connection with development, construction, rental or sale of such properties in Newark.

April 3, 2025 ¡ª Today, U.S. Attorney Sean P. Costello announced criminal charges against seven defendants related to a multi-million dollar fraud scheme at the Water Works and Sewer Board of the City of Prichard (¡°Prichard Water Board¡±).

May 19, 2022 ¡ª Former director of Food Services for Hempstead Public Schools alleged to have steered more than 1 million dollars in contracts to a preferred vendor in exchange for kickbacks

June 1, 2022 ¡ª A former self-proclaimed Salem real estate developer has been convicted by a federal jury in Boston in connection with a 10-year mortgage fraud scheme involving at least two dozen fraudulent loan transactions totaling $6.5 million and resulting in more than $3.8 million in losses to lenders.

July 13, 2022 ¡ª Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Toyosi Alatishe, a/k/a Felix Victor Johnson, of Columbia, Maryland, to 126 months in federal prison, for conspiracy to commit credit/debit card fraud, wire fraud, and for aggravated identity theft, in connection with two separate schemes from 2012-2015 to obtain fraudulent tax refunds. Judge Blake also required Alatishe to serve a period of supervised release following his release from prison and pay restitution in the amount of $2,287,959.67. A federal jury convicted Alatishe on all 16 counts charged in the indictment on January 24, 2019.

November 3, 2022 ¡ª The former president of the State Police Association of Massachusetts (SPAM) and the union's former Massachusetts lobbyist were convicted by a federal jury today of racketeering, fraud, obstruction of justice and tax crimes.

August 11, 2022 ¡ª A federal judge sentenced a Bessemer man charged under the "Kingpin" statute for leading a continuing criminal enterprise and large-scale drug trafficking conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona, Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Atlanta Field Office Special Agent in Charge James E. Dorsey and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr.

November 18, 2022 ¡ª Yesterday afternoon, in federal court in East St. Louis, Illinois, Emmitt T. Tiner, of O¡¯Fallon, Illinois, was sentenced to ten years in federal prison. On July 7, 2022, Tiner pled guilty to wire fraud, extortion, sending interstate communications with the intent to extort, healthcare fraud, money laundering, and conducting financial transactions with criminally derived proceeds.