June 2025 Criminal Investigation press releases

June 30, 2025

• Nigerian man sentenced to 40 months in prison for scheme to steal identities and claim tax refunds
• Multiple Eastern North Carolina healthcare professionals charged in connection with 2025 national healthcare fraud takedown
• Federal and state officials announce efforts to crack down on healthcare fraud schemes
• Former San Francisco bank employee charged with embezzling from customer accounts and access device fraud
• Former Cedar Rapids resident sentenced to federal prison for identity theft
• National health care fraud takedown results in 324 defendants charged in connection with over $14.6 billion in alleged fraud
• National health care fraud takedown results in multiple defendants charged in connection with over $14.6 billion in alleged fraud
• National health care fraud takedown results in several defendants charged in connection with over $14.6 billion in alleged fraud
• Leader of Yoga to the People sentenced to four years for tax evasion scheme
• Eleven defendants indicted in multibillion health care fraud scheme, the largest case by loss amount ever charged by the Department of Justice

June 27, 2025

• Pensacola man pleads guilty to multimillion dollar drug trafficking and money laundering crimes
• Owners of construction company charged with defrauding the city of New York in connection with over $13.5 million of public school repairs
• Twenty-three members of an interstate car theft ring charged in federal court
• Clayton man with gun sentenced to over five years in prison for COVID-19 fraud
• Syracuse man sentenced to 7 years for drug conspiracy, money laundering

June 26, 2025

• Four charged in the nation’s largest known covid tax credit fraud scheme; two defendants charged with attempting to murder the ringleader of the fraud

• Former high-ranking New York State government employee and her husband charged with accepting kickbacks in PPE fraud scheme

• Olive Branch man sentenced to five years and ordered to pay millions after PPP fraud scheme

• Houston personal injury lawyer pleads guilty to defrauding clients

• Mexican national sentenced to 100 months in prison for laundering $5.4 million

• Corona man sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison for $1.2 million tax fraud involving the sale of Stan Lee memorabilia

• Nigerian national arrested in multimillion-dollar email and money laundering scam

• Minneapolis man pleads guilty; forty-seventh conviction in the feeding our future fraud scheme

• Philadelphia vertical farmer pleads guilty to wire fraud and tax evasion

June 25, 2025

• Michigan man sentenced to two years in prison for drug distribution and loan fraud
• Utah businessman sentenced to prison for defrauding the COVID-19 Paycheck Protection Program out of over $628,000
• Lone American indicted in international drug trafficking investigation sentenced to five years in prison
• Gladwyne investment adviser sentenced to over eight years in prison for defrauding clients of more than $23 million
• Leader of PPP fraud scheme sentenced to 51 months in prison
• TD Bank insider pleads guilty to accepting bribes to fraudulently open more than 100 bank accounts
• New Jersey CPA pleads guilty to conspiring with others to defraud the United States

June 24, 2025

• Former Santa Cruz County treasurer sentenced to 10 years in prison for stealing over $38 million in county funds
• Gillette man sentenced for defrauding U.S. government
• Shelton man admits defrauding pandemic relief program
• Miami man sentenced to federal prison for $2.3 million COVID-19 unemployment insurance benefits fraud scheme
• New Orleans man indicted for Cares Act fraud and money laundering

June 23, 2025

• Philadelphia tax preparer sentenced to three years in prison for filing false returns
• Founder of lender service provider convicted for role in multimillion-dollar PPP fraud scheme
• Fourth defendant pleads guilty to scheme to bribe Feeding Our Future juror
• Raleigh basketball scout and life coach sentenced to prison for obtaining nearly $300,000 in fraudulent COVID-19 relief loans in nationwide scheme
• Florida nonprofit founder and accountant charged with stealing over $100 million from special needs victims
• Gang member is sentenced to 28 years in prison for racketeering
• Campaign treasurer pleads guilty to embezzling over $840,000
• Menachem Lieberman sentenced to 52 months for fraud on federal childcare programs
• Thirteen people charged in takedown of a major drug trafficking network

June 20, 2025

• Precious metals depository owner sentenced to 65 years in federal prison for $76 million fraud scheme
• Seven Georgians indicted for operating online fentanyl, meth marketplace
• Ozark timeshare salesman pleads guilty to attempting to evade taxation
• Thirteen indicted for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and cocaine as well as illegal possession of machine guns

June 18, 2025

• Williston man charged with tax evasion
• Sixteen indictments returned for previously deported illegal aliens identified in recent immigration enforcement actions

• Colorado dentist sentenced for tax evasion

June 17, 2025

• Hickory woman sentenced to prison for embezzling over $900,000 from employer
• Former Glastonbury postal carrier admits stealing U.S. Treasury check from the mail
• Drug trafficking organization faces federal charges
• Former Hoboken director of Health and Human Services sentenced to 24 months in prison for embezzlement, filing false tax return
• Bergen County man admits to committing over $600,000 COVID-19 fraud scheme
• New York business owner pleads guilty to tax charge

June 16, 2025

• Leader of multimillion-dollar international money laundering and drug trafficking ring convicted
• Pennsylvania man charged with wire fraud, money laundering, and identity theft
• Florida man sentenced to 100 months’ imprisonment for wire fraud and tax evasion
• Conspirators sentenced for engaging in a multitude of fraud schemes, including romance scams, investment fraud, and business email compromise, to steal at least $17 million
• Investor pleads guilty to filing false form with IRS to shield $30 million in capital gains under Puerto Rico tax incentive program

June 13, 2025

• Social media finance influencer pleads guilty to orchestrating $20 million Ponzi scheme
• Former CFO of Sf Seafood Wholesaler convicted for embezzling over $9 million from company
• Former Illinois Speaker of the House Michael J. Madigan sentenced to seven and a half years in prison after corruption conviction
• Canadian man is the sixth and final defendant sentenced in a grandparent scam that targeted Kentucky victims and others

June 12, 2025

• Golden Valley man pleads guilty; forty-sixth conviction in the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme
• Former CEO of Guam helicopter company sentenced to 405 months in federal prison for criminal aviation violations
• USAID official and three corporate executives plead guilty to decade-long bribery scheme involving more than $550 million in contracts; two companies admit criminal liability for bribery scheme and securities fraud
• North Carolina narcotics trafficker sentenced to 22 years
• Crafton man sentenced to 23 years in prison for drug and money laundering violations
• East Granby woman admits $1.1 Million pandemic relief program scheme

June 11, 2025

• New York man pleads guilty to $70 million kickback scheme
• Former NASCAR team owner pleads guilty to failure to pay payroll taxes
• Owner of Long Island ambulette services pleads guilty to leading multimillion dollar healthcare fraud scheme

June 10, 2025

• Lawrence man pleads guilty to money laundering and cocaine conspiracies
• Colombian money broker sentenced to nearly a decade in prison for role in international money laundering conspiracy
• Morrison man sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for PPP loan fraud
• St. Paul woman charged with assaulting law enforcement officers during lake street narcotics search warrants, punching an FBI agent upon her arrest
• Commercial real estate broker pleads guilty to obstructing the IRS
• Alabama chiropractor pleads guilty to tax evasion and obstruction evaded more than $2.5 million in taxes and obstructed IRS collection efforts
• Former Orange County supervisor sentenced to 5 years in prison for bribery scheme involving more than $10 million in COVID funds

June 9, 2025

• Founder of cryptocurrency payment company charged with evading sanctions and export controls, defrauding financial institutions, and violating the Bank Secrecy Act
• Former state worker pleads guilty in scheme to steal nearly $900,000 in state tax dollars

June 6, 2025

• Eight charged in federal crackdown on Treasury check fraud
• Woman who defrauded Everett employer of $2.5 million, sentenced to prison for second embezzlement from Kent, Washington employer
• Apple Valley woman charged with participating in $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme
• Founder of O.C.-based non-profit charged in 15-count indictment alleging he bribed county supervisor in $12 million scheme
• Co-leader of large-scale narcotics & human trafficking rings sentenced to 30 years in prison

June 5, 2025

• California resident pleads guilty to trafficking methamphetamine
• Wheeling attorney charged with fraud and money laundering
• Mexican national pleads guilty to conspiring to traffic cocaine and money laundering
• Five Highs gang members convicted by jury of RICO conspiracy, drug trafficking, and firearms offenses

June 4, 2025

• Career criminal sentenced to thirteen years in federal prison for manufacturing and selling THC and psilocybin products nationwide
• Middlesex County man sentenced to 27 months for defrauding South Koreans through bogus commodities investment scheme
• New Jersey man pleads guilty to tax evasion
• Nevada man unlawfully residing in the United States pleads guilty to leadership role in Oregon drug trafficking and multimillion-dollar money laundering conspiracies
• Outdoor retailer sentenced to prison for tax fraud and ordered to pay over $2M in fines and restitution

June 3, 2025

• Managers of El Dorado Hills company SweepsCoach plead guilty to operating an illegal gambling business
• Dark web fentanyl dealer sentenced to federal prison
• Dominican national sentenced to federal prison, to be deported for trafficking fentanyl, stealing hundreds of individuals’ personal information, and defrauding the government
• Former plaintiffs’ lawyer Tom Girardi sentenced to more than 7 years in prison for swindling tens of millions of dollars from injured clients

June 2, 2025

• Oconee County man indicted for failing to report $1M income on taxes

• Controller of law enforcement union pleads guilty to filing false tax return

• Two interrelated drug rings taken down in series of arrests following wiretap investigation

• Par funding principal and former CFO sentenced to 66 months in prison for racketeering conspiracy

• California man involved in methamphetamine trafficking sentenced to federal prison

• Two Florida men plead guilty to crimes related to a scheme to prepare false tax returns for clients