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April 24, 2025 ¡ª Marc H. Silverman, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that James Blose of Fairfield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 48 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for offenses stemming from a decade-long embezzlement scheme at banks where he served as General Counsel and held other high-ranking positions.

Jan. 19, 2024 ¡ª David Scott Cacchione was arrested and has been charged by criminal complaint with conspiring to commit wire fraud in connection with an investment fraud scheme, announced United States Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey, IRS Criminal Investigation (CI) Oakland Field Office Acting Special Agent in Charge Michael Mosley, and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Robert K. Tripp.

September 27, 2023 ¡ª A man from Bellflower, California who was a leader of a multi-state methamphetamine and fentanyl distribution ring was sentenced to 15 years in prison in U.S. District Court in Seattle for drug trafficking crimes, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Tessa M. Gorman. At the sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour said, ¡°I can¡¯t remember a prior sentencing involving this quantity of methamphetamine.¡±

September 15, 2022 ¡ª Acting United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that Bion A. Flint, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. to 10 months¡¯ imprisonment for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. After his release from prison, Flint will begin a three-year term of supervised release. Flint was also ordered to pay restitution of $45,833.

May 10, 2022 ¡ª Modern day slavery. Victims with physical and psychological trauma. Hidden in plain sight. Human trafficking is happening around us ¨C often undetected ¨C in communities across the globe, including the Dutch Caribbean. Investigators need to know what to look for and how to prove that a criminal act took place in a court of law, and that's why training and education are so important to combatting this heinous crime.

May 12, 2025 ¡ª Marc H. Silverman, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on May 9, 2025, Yasir G. Hamed, of Woodbridge, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to offenses stemming from a scheme to defraud a COVID-19 pandemic relief program of more than $2.3 million.

May 27, 2025 ¡ª Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that Brian T. Owen, of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, has been sentenced for money laundering. United States District Judge S. Maurice Hicks, Jr. sentenced Owen to 30 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, $100,000 fine, and ordered him to pay $1,157,154.39 in restitution.

March 20, 2025 ¡ª Matthew Podolsky, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Leslie R. Backschies, the Acting Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); and Harry T. Chavez, Jr., the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigations (IRS-CI), announced the unsealing of a four-count criminal Indictment charging Shan Anand, Nosakhare Nobore, Nicholas Pappas, Leonard Ujkic, Solomon Aluko, a/k/a D1 ReallyRich, and Jorge Gonzalez with a scheme to fraudulently obtain checks and launder the proceeds. Many of the checks were funds provided by the government for COVID-19 relief that the defendants stole before depositing into bank accounts opened using sham businesses or stolen or fake identities. In total, the defendants attempted to steal approximately $80 million and succeeded in depositing approximately $50 million.

Jan. 23, 2025 ¡ª An India- and New Jersey-based man who operated jewelry companies in New York City¡¯s Diamond District was sentenced to 30 months incarceration for spearheading a scheme to illegally evade customs duties for more than $13.5 million of jewelry imports into the United States and for illegally processing more than $10.3 million through an unlicensed money transmitting business, Acting U.S. Attorney Vikas Khanna announced.

March 5, 2025 ¡ª A clinical social worker nicknamed by her co-workers as the ¡°Five Minute Queen¡± who, at times, substituted a one or two sentence conversation for a billed 45-minute therapy session for her addicted patients has been sentenced to three years of supervised release, the first three months to be served in home detention with electronic monitoring, announced Acting United States Attorney Sara Miron Bloom.