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July 24, 2025
July 23, 2025
July 21, 2025
- Leader of national catalytic converter theft ring pleads guilty and admits to selling stolen goods for more than $600M
- Two Mexican nationals sentenced for roles in black market peso exchange money laundering scheme
- Former East Bay financial advisor charged with allegedly operating long-running $9.5 million Ponzi scheme
July 18, 2025
- Grand jury charges Columbus man with money laundering $1M in business email scam proceeds
- Former real estate podcaster sentenced to more than 5 years in prison for orchestrating $7m Ponzi scheme
- Swedish man who licensed rights to late Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar pleads guilty to fraud, money laundering charges
- Lenexa tax preparer sentenced to prison
July 14, 2025
- Seattle real estate owner convicted at trial for tax fraud scheme
- Kissimmee businessman sentenced to four years in federal prison for multimillion dollar theft scheme
- Independence attorney sentenced for tax evasion
- Bakersfield tax return preparer pleads guilty for his role in $25 million fraud scheme
- One LASD deputy charged, another pleads guilty to conspiring to violate civil rights while providing off-duty security for clients
- Multiple defendants charged in cockfighting and illegal gambling operation
July 11, 2025
- Ovidio Guzman Lopez—son of “El Chapo” and a head of Sinaloa Cartel—pleads guilty to federal drug charges in Chicago
- Former Rohnert Park police officer found guilty of conspiracy to commit extortion, impersonating ATF agent, and other charges related to marijuana seizure scheme
- Raleigh County physician pleads guilty to federal drug crimes in connection with HOPE clinic
- Federal jury convicts Hammond man of failing to pay over federal trust fund taxes
- Brooklyn man sentenced for role in international wire fraud scheme using stolen identities to submit fraudulent tax returns seeking more than $35 million in refunds
- CEO of Iranian engineering company arrested for allegedly shipping sophisticated electronics to Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions
July 10, 2025
- New Orleans man sentenced for Cares Act fraud
- Ponte Vedra Beach man pleads guilty in fraud scheme involving COVID-19 personal protective equipment
- Former New Haven resident sentenced to 5 years in federal prison for trafficking narcotics
- Former Troup County payroll manager charged with embezzling over $500,000 in government funds
- Federal judge in Chicago sentences corrupt confidential informant to 13 years in prison
- Hamden man who defrauded pandemic relief programs sentenced to 15 months in federal prison
- Mobile woman sentenced to five years’ probation and one year of home confinement for tax fraud
July 9, 2025
- Dedham man pleads guilty to submitting multiple fraudulent bank loan applications
- Philadelphia resident sentenced to 15 years in prison for leading large-scale drug trafficking organization
- Owings Mills couple sentenced for roles in $20-million insurance fraud scheme
- New York man who ran $7-million-dollar cryptocurrency investment scheme sentenced to four years in federal prison
- Scott County cattle farmer pleads guilty to COVID-19 fraud
- Two Lubbock men indicted with Brooklynn Chandler Willy for allegedly defrauding hundreds of victims
- Tennessee man pleads guilty to COVID-19 employment tax credit scheme
- Columbus man sentenced to life in prison for drug, firearm, sex trafficking crimes
July 8, 2025
- OmegaPro founder and promoter charged for running global $650M foreign exchange and crypto investment scam
- Leader of multimillion-dollar bank fraud scheme is sentenced to 15 years in prison
- New York man charged with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft
- Honduran national sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for facilitating $7.6 million payroll scheme to defraud the IRS and workers’ compensation insurance company
- California Bay Area CEO sentenced for employment tax crimes
- Final defendant sentenced in national methamphetamine & cocaine trafficking conspiracy
July 7, 2025
- Union City “ghost preparer” pleads guilty to fraudulently seeking over $4 million in COVID-19 employment tax credits
- Final three members charged in prolific Chinese money laundering scheme plead guilty to laundering tens of millions in drug proceeds
- Longtime employee of Harford County Maryland manufacturer sentenced to federal prison for $29 million kickback scheme
July 3, 2025
- Denver man charged with 27 counts in connection with CARES Act fraud
- Bergen County woman indicted for destruction of evidence in connection with federal investigation of her husband’s real estate investment fraud scheme
July 2, 2025
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Sicklerville man sentenced to prison for conspiring to commit tax fraud
- International money launderer sentenced to eight years for a conspiracy to conceal millions in drug proceeds
- Mifflin County man sentenced for filing false tax return
July 1, 2025
- Federal grand jury in Louisville returns 4 indictments charging 22 defendants with drug trafficking, firearms, and money laundering offenses
- Brockton man detained after allegedly attempting to purchase 15 kilograms of cocaine
- Virginia man sentenced to federal prison for COVID-19 pandemic unemployment insurance benefits scheme
- Duncansville woman sentenced to prison for role in methamphetamine trafficking organization
- Roaring Spring man pleads guilty to methamphetamine trafficking charges
- U.S. Attorney’s Office announces 5 individuals charged as part of Department of Justice’s 2025 national health care fraud takedown
- Four family members charged in multimillion-dollar tax refund fraud scheme
- Four tax preparers sentenced to combined 105 months in federal prison
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