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October 6, 2023 ¡ª Acting United States Attorney Susan Lehr announced that Tamika R. Cross, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced today in Omaha by Chief United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. to 42 months¡¯ imprisonment for Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud. There is no parole in the federal system. After her release from prison, Cross will begin a three-year term of supervised release. Chief Judge Rossiter ordered Cross to pay restitution of $552,287.26.

Sept. 26, 2024 ¡ª A federal jury in San Francisco returned a guilty verdict against Dwayne Lorenzo Richardson on three counts of tax evasion, announced United States Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey and IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Acting Special Agent in Charge Michael Mosley. The guilty verdict followed a three-day jury trial before the Honorable William Alsup, Senior U.S. District Judge. A three-count indictment was filed on June 27, 2023, charging Richardson with tax evasion.

March 27, 2025 ¡ª Matthew Podolsky, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that Paul Bielecki, a/k/a ¡°Paul HRH Saxe-Coburg-Gotha,¡± a Manhattan-based Franciscan friar, was sentenced to five years in prison for perpetrating a multi-year scheme to obtain donations for a fake medical charity purportedly operating in Beirut, Lebanon. Bielecki previously pled guilty to wire fraud on Nov. 11, 2024, before U.S. District Judge Vincent Briccetti, who imposed today¡¯s sentence.

April 23, 2025 ¡ª The former clerk/treasurer for the City of Morton in Lewis County is now charged federally with wire fraud in connection with her nine-year scheme to steal nearly $1 million from city coffers, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Teal Luthy Miller. Tamara (Tammy) Clevenger served as the clerk/treasurer for Morton from 2012-2022. In 2024, an audit by the Washington State Auditor uncovered years of embezzlement totaling $937,584. Clevenger is expected to enter a plea to the wire fraud charge next month.

June 22, 2022 ¡ª United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero, together with other federal law enforcement officials announced today charges against 19 defendants for defrauding federal programs funded by the CARES Act and designed to provide a financial safety net for Americans during the pandemic. Collectively these defendants sought to defraud the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program and the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program of over $24 million.

July 6, 2022 ¡ª United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero and Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department¡¯s Tax Division announced that Wayne Garvin currently of Columbia, South Carolina, and a former IRS employee, was sentenced to 13 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $74,662 restitution for filing false tax returns and providing fabricated records to the IRS in an attempt to obstruct an audit of those returns.

April 12, 2023 ¡ª Damian Davis has been sentenced in federal district court to 24 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for bank and wire fraud as part of a scheme to defraud the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) out of loan proceeds. These loans are guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act. Additionally, the Honorable William P. Dimitrouleas ordered Davis to pay over half a million dollars in restitution.

June 6, 2025 ¡ª A former Kent, Washington, woman was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to an additional twelve months and one day in prison for stealing from her new employer while awaiting sentencing for stealing from a past employer, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Teal Luthy Miller. In 2023, Christin Guillory was sentenced to three years in prison for stealing more than $2.5 million from an Everett manufacturing company where she served as accounting manager.

August 9, 2023 ¡ª A Central Florida resident has been sentenced in federal district court for wire fraud as part of a scheme to defraud the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) out of loan proceeds. These loans are guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act. Kerryanne Purkiss was sentenced this week to 12 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release. Additionally, the Honorable Roy Dalton, Jr., ordered Purkiss to pay more than $715,000 in restitution.

Feb. 2, 2024 ¡ª Representative John Rogers has been indicted again by a federal grand jury for additional offenses involving the fraud scheme against the Jefferson County Community Service Fund, including conspiracy, wire and mail fraud, obstruction of justice, and making a false statement, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Acting Special Agent in Charge Demetrius Hardeman, and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Carlton L. Peeples.