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August 24, 2023 ¡ª The former chief of staff to the speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives was convicted today of providing false material testimony under oath to a federal grand jury and attempting to obstruct its investigation into allegations of public corruption.

August 24, 2023 ¡ª A Purvis man was sentenced to 34 months in federal prison for assisting in the preparation of a materially false tax return, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and acting Special Agent in Charge Demetrius Hardeman of IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Atlanta Field Office.

August 25, 2023 ¡ª Branea Bryant, of Cleveland, Ohio, was sentenced yesterday to 290 months in prison by U.S. District Judge John R. Adams. In March 2023, a jury convicted Bryant of one count of Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess with Intent to Distribute 400 Grams or More of Fentanyl, one count of Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering, and three counts of Money Laundering. The court also ordered Bryant to serve 10 years of supervised release following imprisonment and pay a $500 special assessment.

August 25, 2023 ¡ª John Everson, of Liberty Center, Ohio, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for evading taxes by using a sham trust to conceal income he earned from his electrical engineering business. A federal jury convicted Everson in October 2022 of three counts of tax evasion.

August 25, 2023 ¡ª A local physician pleaded guilty to filing false tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service, under-reporting his income by more than half a million dollars over a five-year period.

August 25, 2023 ¡ª Dr. Samson K. Orusa of Clarksville, Tennessee, was sentenced yesterday to 84 months in federal prison after being convicted of over a dozen felony health care fraud charges, announced United States Attorney Henry C. Leventis for the Middle District of Tennessee.

August 25, 2023 ¡ª United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown has announced the return of an indictment by a federal grand jury in Shreveport charging a former Shreveport Police Department Lieutenant with wire fraud.

August 25, 2023 ¡ª A federal grand jury in San Francisco indicted Aubrey Jackson Shelton II with bank fraud, wire fraud, and tax evasion in connection with his scheme to embezzle more than $2.7 million from his employer, a San Francisco technology company, announced United States Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey and Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Darren Lian. Shelton was arrested today and appeared in federal court to face the charges.

August 29, 2023 ¡ª A Kent, Washington, woman was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to three years in prison for wire fraud and tax fraud related to a 10-year embezzlement scheme, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Tessa M. Gorman.

August 25, 2023 ¡ª Kishore Kethineni, the CEO of multiple software development and IT services companies in the Bay Area, was sentenced to two years in prison for his role in a conspiracy to commit bank fraud and for his failure to pay over more than $2 million in employment taxes, announced United States Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey, Internal Revenue Service¡ªCriminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Special Agent in Charge Darren Lian of the Oakland Field Office, and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Robert K. Tripp.