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July 31, 2023 ¡ª U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Frank R. Parlato, Jr., who was convicted of willful failure to file returns involving cash transactions of more than $10,000, was sentenced to serve one-year supervised release, to include five months home detention, and fined $10,000 by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. Parlato also agreed to forfeit $1,000,138 and will pay $184,939 in restitution to the IRS.

July 31, 2023 ¡ª A Springfield, Mo., business owner has pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in a nearly $14 million wire fraud conspiracy that utilized his businesses, as well as fake businesses, to fraudulently receive loans under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.

July 31, 2023 ¡ª The United States Attorney¡¯s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Brian J. Albelli, of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, and formerly of Deerfield Beach, Florida, was charged in a criminal information on July 27, 2023, with wire fraud and money laundering.

August 1, 2023 ¡ª A former Dublin, Ga., resident is being sought internationally on multiple federal charges alleging he orchestrated a scheme that misdirected more than $30 million donated for Christian ministry in China.

August 3, 2023 ¡ª Federal prosecutors today unsealed a grand jury indictment that accuses a United States Navy service member with receiving bribes in exchange for transmitting sensitive U.S. military information to an intelligence officer from the People¡¯s Republic of China.

July 31, 2023 ¡ª Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Robert V. Matthews, of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 65 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy, money laundering, and tax evasion offenses related to multiple schemes that defrauded investors and financial institutions out of tens of millions of dollars.

August 4, 2023 ¡ª A Mississippi man was sentenced to 30 months in prison for filing a false corporate income tax return on behalf of his oil and gas leasing business.

August 3, 2023 ¡ª Two residents of Northern Cambria, PA, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal tax, anti-fraud, and money laundering laws, United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced today.

August 3, 2023 ¡ª A married couple from New York City pleaded guilty today to money laundering conspiracies arising from the hack and theft of approximately 120,000 bitcoin from Bitfinex, a global cryptocurrency exchange.

August 3, 2023 ¡ª Timothy Ray Jenkins, of Woodmere, Ohio, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Pamela A. Barker. Jenkins pleaded guilty to counts one through 11 of an indictment that charged him with failure to account for and pay over taxes. Jenkins was also ordered to serve 3 years of supervised release, and to pay both a $1,100 special assessment and $1,174,677.06 in restitution to the IRS.