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A volunteer Little League coach tried to solicit sex online from a 13-year-old. That 13-year-old was actually an undercover detective posing as a minor to catch adult predators.
Jeffrey Alan Benjamin, 62, from Jenkinsville, S.C., was sentenced on Nov. 21 to one year and one day for failing to provide accurate information to the energy company SCANA, which caused them to deceive regulators, shareholders and the public, according to a DOJ press release.
Ten people were convicted in federal court for their participation in an identity theft and fraud ring that extended from South Carolina north to New York, south to Florida and west to Texas, touching down in North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Virginia and Missouri along the way.
Brian Logan, 50, an attorney in Frankfort, Ky., pleaded guilty on Nov. 20 to aggravated identity theft, money laundering, wire fraud and bank fraud in a scheme to steal from charities, according to a DOJ press release.
A recent investigation by the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Inspector General (IG) uncovered evidence that a military commander retaliated against a whistleblower by recommending the revocation of security clearance.
Ilya Lichtenstein, 36, a Russian-U.S. national living in New York City, was sentenced on Nov. 14 to five years in prison for his part in a conspiracy to steal around 120,000 Bitcoins from the global cryptocurrency exchange Bifinex, according to a DOJ press release.
Jack Douglas Teixeira, 22, a member of the Air National Guard from North Dighton, Mass., was sentenced to 15 years in prison and three years supervised release on Nov. 12 for sharing hundreds of classified and Top Secret national defense Information documents on Discord, a social media site, according to a DOJ press release.
Roberto Munoz, a 29-year-old man from Hialeah, Fla., and Jason Rhodes, a 34-year-old man from Flushing, N.Y., were arrested and charged for their alleged roles as couriers in so-called “grandparent scams” that targeted senior citizens in multiple states, including Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
The son of Ecuador’s former comptroller general has avoided trial by pleading guilty to a multimillion-dollar scheme to launder money on behalf of his father, Carlos Roman Polit Faggioni (Carlos Polit).
Greg Lindberg, 54, currently living in Tampa, Fla., pleaded guilty on Nov. 12 to conspiracy to commit money laundering for his part in a scheme to scam insurance policyholders and regulators, according to a DOJ press release. The scheme took place in multiple areas, including Malta, Bermuda and North Carolina.
Aaron A. Wagner, 42, and Michael Mains, 46, both from Alpine, Utah, were officially indicted on Nov. 6 on 16 counts of financial crimes concerning money laundering and wire fraud, according to a DOJ press release.
Babatunde Francis Ayeni, 33, a Nigerian national living in the United Kingdom, was sentenced to ten years in prison for his part in a years-long scheme that affected 400 people and stole nearly $20 million, according to a DOJ press release.
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