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A federal judge denied an Oklahoma couple’s request to discharge their debt due to bankruptcy for being unable to account for losses of assets valued at over $90 million.
Antonio Petrosino, 59, from Union City, N.J., was charged on Jan. 24 with wire fraud and money laundering charges, according to a DOJ press release. Petrosino is accused of scamming an elderly investor out of over $888,000. He also uses the name Anthony Petrosino.
On Jan. 17, a federal jury sentenced a Texas man to over a year in federal prison after he stole $2 million worth of Fitbit devices while working as a warehouse supervisor. Forty-year-old Dwight Oliver, of Grand Prairie, Texas, was handed a 15-month prison sentence after pleading guilty to mail fraud, according to a Justice […]
William Shane Garrow, 49, from Tulsa, Okla., pleaded guilty on Jan. 8 to charges concerning a scheme to embezzle more than $4.2 million from his clients, according to a DOJ press release. Garrow pleaded guilty to bank fraud and lying on his tax returns.
Fresh Mark, Inc., entered a non-prosecution agreement with the Northern District of Ohio’s U.S. Attorney’s Office after multiple investigations led to arrests between 2013 and 2018, according to a Dec. 31, 2024, DOJ press release. Among those arrested was Yelwin Omar Munoz-Solis, 43, from Salem, Ohio, who was accused of crimes related to identity theft […]
Wendell Lynn Smallwood, Jr., 30, a former running back from Wilmington, Del. and resident of New Jersey, pleaded guilty to wire fraud, conspiracy, and defrauding the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), according to Smallwood’s plea agreement.
On Dec. 20, Hashem Younis Hashem Hnaihen, a 44-year-old Jordanian native living in Orlando, Fla., pleaded guilty to four counts of threatening to use explosives and one count of destruction of an energy facility, according to a Justice Department press release.
In a six-count indictment that was unsealed on Dec. 20, two men from California were charged with defrauding investors in an NFT scam, according to a Justice Department press release.
Todd A. Rosetti and James W. Gunkel, both from Ocean Springs, Miss. and their company Quality Poultry and Seafood (QPS), were sentenced after being charged for their role in food mislabeling that prosecutors say lasted over two decades. QPS is regarded as the top seafood wholesaler on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, according to court documents.
Tony Archuleta-Perkins, 48, formerly from San Francisco but currently living in Palm Springs, pleaded guilty to bank fraud and money laundering on Dec. 11, according to a DOJ Press Release. The crimes were related to a years-long embezzlement scheme that cost Archuleta-Perkins’ former employers $1.3 million.
McKinsey Africa, a company that operates as a wholly owned and controlled subsidiary of international consulting firm McKinsey & Company Inc., will pay more than $122 million to resolve an investigation by the Justice Department into a scheme to pay bribes to government officials in South Africa between 2012 and 2016.
On Dec. 5, a federal court sentenced Margaret Ward Heilman, 66, of Darlington County, S.C., and her sister Katherine Ward Gray, 60, of Florence County, S.C., to prison for their involvement in a conspiracy to commit wire fraud, according to a Justice Department press release.
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