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Federal authorities based in California authorized the IRS to serve a “John Doe” summons to JustAnswer.com to obtain information about U.S. taxpayers who worked for the platform from 2017 to 2020.
Kevin Breslin, 58, from Hoboken, N.J., Chief Executive Officer and Managing Member of KBWB Operations LLC, as well as one of six owners of a nursing home company, pleaded guilty on Dec. 17 to health care fraud and tax conspiracy, according to a DOJ press release. KBWB Operations LLC also pleaded guilty on Jan. 21. […]
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 […]
Damon K. Perry, a 52-year-old man from Youngstown, Ohio, has been charged by a federal grand jury for the alleged sexual abuse of a person in police custody. Perry sexually abused a female inmate at the Mahoning County Jail on two separate occasions in November 2023, according to a Justice Department press release.
John Ageudo Rodriguez, 55, from McAllen, Texas, pleaded guilty on Jan. 16 to conspiracy charges involved with paying kickbacks for prescription referrals, according to a DOJ press release.
Travis Ford, 35, from Glenpool, Okla., the CEO and co-founder of the cryptocurrency investment firm Wolf Capital Crypto Trading LLC, pleaded guilty on Jan. 10 to crimes related to investment fraud, according to a DOJ press release.
Three Russian nationals were charged in an indictment returned on Jan. 7 with crimes related to operating two cryptocurrency mixing services, Sinbad.io and Blender.io, according to a DOJ press release. Alexander Evgenievich Oleynik, 44, and Roman Vitalyevich Ostapenko, 55, were arrested on Dec. 1, 2024, but Anton Vyachlavovich Tarasov, 32, has not yet been apprehended […]
Four individuals and one company pleaded guilty in a conspiracy to rig commercial roofing bids around central Florida in a scam that prosecutors say undermines fair competition, according to a Jan. 10 Justice Department press release.
Jenifer O’Neal, 53, former U.S. Virgin Islands Office of Management and Budget (VI-OMB) director, and Ray Martinez, 56, former U.S. Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) police commissioner, have been charged in an indictment unsealed on Jan. 10 with crimes related to a money laundering and bribery conspiracy, according to a DOJ press release.
On Jan. 15, Toyota subsidiary Hino reached a settlement with the federal government and the State of California to resolve allegations they violated the Clean Air Act, according to a DOJ press release.
Erlene King, 71, from Brooklyn, N.Y., pleaded guilty to crimes involved with a scheme to manipulate a matching donations procedure from the Campaign Finance Board (CFB) of New York City, according to a DOJ press release. King admitted to committing wire fraud while working as a treasurer for a primary candidate for Brooklyn Borough President, […]
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