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Aug. 8, 2024 ¡ª U.S. District Judge Carlos Mendoza has sentenced Avinash Singh of St. Cloud to 24 years in federal prison for wire fraud and money laundering. The court also ordered Singh to forfeit the $57 million in proceeds he obtained from his offenses, as well as real property that he purchased with those proceeds. Singh entered a guilty plea on May 6, 2024.

Aug. 12, 2024 ¡ª Joe Lewis Jefferson of Nashville, North Carolina, pled guilty for executing a scheme to defraud a program designed to help struggling North Carolinians stay in their homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. He faces up to 31 years in prison. On March 27, 2024, Jefferson¡¯s wife, Danyael Davis Jefferson, pled guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud for her role in the scheme.

Aug. 12, 2024 ¡ª A police officer for the Village of Dolton, Ill. was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Chicago on bankruptcy fraud charges for allegedly engaging in a scheme to conceal assets and income from creditors and prevent payment of the settlement of a lawsuit.

Aug. 12, 2024 ¡ª A resident of Phoenix, Arizona, was sentenced in federal court to 180 months in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, on his convictions of conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute cocaine, fentanyl, and methamphetamine, and conspiracy to commit money laundering, United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced today.

Aug. 12, 2024 ¡ª The co-owner of a Mattapan plumbing and heating supply company was sentenced for filing false tax returns in connection with a scheme to use millions of dollars of unreported business receipts to buy gold and silver bars.

Aug. 13, 2024 ¡ª United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Ari Tietolman of Montr¨¦al, Canada, was sentenced to 10 years in prison, three years of supervised release, $7,042.898.22 in restitution, and a $700 special assessment by United States District Judge Gerald A. McHugh, all arising from Tietolman¡¯s operation of a massive scheme from Canada that targeted American senior citizens with deceptive telemarketing calls for nearly a decade.

Aug. 13, 2024 ¡ª A Thomaston, Conn. man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Springfield in connection with a scheme to obtain bank loans and money for projects in Saudi Arabia.

Aug. 14, 2024 ¡ª A resident of Moon Township, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of willfully filing a false tax return, United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced today.

Aug. 14, 2024 ¡ª Mycheal Arnell Brady, also known as ¡°Michael Brady,¡± has been indicted on federal charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, for stealing COVID-19 relief funds and submitting fraudulent federal tax refunds using the stolen identities of multiple individuals.

Aug. 14, 2024 ¡ª The owner of a Bozeman construction company who admitted not paying to the IRS employee-related taxes of more than $800,000 was sentenced today to federal prison and fined $75,000, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said.