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Alex Nain Saab Moran, 54, of Caracas, Venezuela, and formerly of Baranquilla, Colombia, a former Minister of Industry in the regime of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to launder proceeds of a massive bribery and fraud scheme in Venezuela and the United States.
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MORGANTOWN, WEST VIRGIINA – The Northern District of West Virginia, today, announced the sentencing and plea agreement as part of a nationwide enforcement action led by the Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division, the Small Business Administration, and the SBA Office of Inspector General targeting fraud in the SBA’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The Northern District of West Virginia was a key participant in this surge effort.
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A Kansas inmate was sentenced to 78 months in federal prison for his part in conspiring to smuggle methamphetamine into a state prison.
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Alonzo Lee Bonner Jr., 39, of Petersburg, was sentenced to 21 years and 10 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
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PITTSBURGH, Pa. – A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 90 months of imprisonment on his convictions for possession with intent to distribute a mixture and substance containing fentanyl and heroin, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of that drug trafficking crime, United States Attorney Troy Rivetti announced today. United States District Judge William S. Stickman IV imposed the sentence on Darion Ethridge, 26, on September 14, 2026. According to information…
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Yesterday, The U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska rejected a challenge to a Clean Water Act permit issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the Johnson Tract mineral exploration project in South Central Alaska. The court granted summary judgment to the United States on every claim and left the permit in place. The permit allows JT Mining to build an access road and upgrade an existing airstrip serving an exploratory drilling site on private land the company owns inside Lake Clark National Park.
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PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney David Metcalf announced that Hayden Laubach, 36, of Bath, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in prison and three years of supervised release by United States District Judge John M. Gallagher for unlawfully possessing multiple guns. The defendant was charged by information in April of this year and pleaded guilty in May to one count of possession of nonregistered firearms. As detailed in court filings and statements, on September 19, 2025, Bushkill…
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United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jamie McDonald, and Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), James C. Barnacle, Jr., announced today the unsealing of Complaints charging HEFU CHAI and HUAISONG XIANG, a/k/a “Jerry Xiang,” with commodities fraud and wire fraud arising from a scheme to misappropriate confidential business information from their employer, Robinhood Markets, Inc. (“Robinhood”), and use that information to…
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Spokane, Washington — First Assistant United States Attorney Pete Serrano announced that on September 14, 2026, Jackson Wyatt Brown, age 40, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Rebecca Pennell to 120 months of incarceration to be followed by 5 years of supervised release stemming from his conviction for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine. In May 2025, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Moses Lake Police Department were conducting a crime reduction…
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A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Michigan returned an indictment charging Emory Matthews, 62, of Farmington Hills, Michigan, with conspiring to bill Medicare for psychotherapy services that were never provided to patients of an adult day care center owned by his wife. He was arrested yesterday.
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OKLAHOMA CITY – TY LAMONT NELSON, JR., 30, of Oklahoma City, has been sentenced to serve 180 months in federal prison, the statutory maximum, for unlawful possession of ammunition, announced U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester. According to public records, on July 2, 2024, officers with the Midwest City Police Department responded to a shooting at a residence. A woman at the home told police that Nelson had come to the residence and forced his way inside her bedroom. He then retrieved a rifle from a bag underneath the…
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Gladys Marina Caal Chen, 21, of Guatemala, pleaded guilty today to submitting a sponsorship application with false statements to the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to gain custody of an unaccompanied alien child (UAC).
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Ray Anthony Waller, 39, of Fresno, pleaded guilty today to sexual exploitation of a child, receipt of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), and sending obscene material to a minor.
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SEATHRA ZMEENA ORR, 39, of Stamford, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Omar A. Williams in Hartford to tax evasion.
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Claimed beach house in Florida was her primary residence to steal emergency funds meant for persons displaced by Hurricane Ian.
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The Western District of New York today announced the sentencing of an Oklahoma woman as part of a nationwide enforcement action led by the Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division, the Small Business Administration, and the SBA Office of Inspector General targeting fraud in the SBA’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). WDNY was a key participant in this surge effort.
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A former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) deputy was sentenced today to 21 months in federal prison for abusing his status as a law enforcement officer to threaten and intimidate adversaries of a now-imprisoned, self-proclaimed cryptocurrency businessman, and for cheating on his taxes.
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A Santa Barbara County man pleaded guilty today to detonating a bomb at a Santa Maria courthouse in 2024, an attack that injured three people, damaged the building, and was intended to kill law enforcement officers in retaliation for local law enforcement seizing his firearms earlier that year.
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Andrei Samuilovski, 32, who has citizenship in Estonia, Switzerland and Russia, pleaded guilty today in connection with a scheme to illegally export U.S.-origin aviation and aerospace parts to Russia in violation of U.S. sanctions.
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CHARLESTON, W. Va. – United States Attorney Moore Capito announced a guilty plea today as part of a nationwide enforcement action led by the Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division, the Small Business Administration, and the SBA Office of Inspector General targeting fraud in the SBA’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The Southern District of West Virginia was a key participant in this surge effort. From June 12 to September 1, 2026, federal prosecutors across the country facilitated fraud…
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SAN DIEGO – Former sailors Bailey A. Szramowski and Johnnese H. Poomaihealani pleaded guilty in federal court this morning to selling counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl to active-duty U.S. Navy servicemembers stationed in San Diego, including during deployments. According to court records, Szramowski provided an active-duty U.S. Navy servicemember assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln with 10 purported oxycodone pills in December 2022. The victim, identified in court records by his initials, A.N.…
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ABINGDON, Va. – The bookkeeper for a Bristol, Virginia-based business pled guilty today to a pair of federal fraud charges for stealing more than $200,000 to pay her bills and buy more than 400 items from Amazon. Angela Sue Conley, 60, pleaded guilty today to one count of wire fraud and one count of mail fraud.
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ABINGDON, Va. – A Washington County, Virginia man, who conspired with others to file false claims for pandemic unemployment benefits authorized by the CARES Act, pled guilty today. The CARES Act is a federal law, enacted in March of 2020, that was designed to provide emergency financial assistance to people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Richard David Michael Bland, 62, pled guilty today to one count of conspiring to defraud the United States and commit an offense against the United States by filing fraudulent…
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TUCSON, Ariz. – On Sep. 9, 2026, Special Agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Tucson District Office, conducted a multi-state enforcement operation resulting in the arrest of Alastair Mark Sanderson, 39, of Overland Park, Kansas; William Robert Norris, 43, of Westworth Village, Texas; and Michael Christian Packard, 36, of Fort Worth, Texas. Sanderson and Norris are the principal managers of LFA Machines DFW, LLC. Packard is a former long-time employee of LFA.
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