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SAN FRANCISCO ¨C Kenneth W. Mattson, of Sonoma, was arrested today pursuant to an indictment returned by a federal grand jury charging him with wire fraud, money laundering, and obstruction of justice.

June 17, 2024 ¡ª A defendant in a financial crimes case appeared in federal court today following the return of an indictment by a federal grand jury in St. George after he and another defendant allegedly ran an unlicensed money transmitting business where bulk cash was converted into crypto currency.

Dec. 20, 2024 ¡ª A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging two Maryland men on federal charges related to a scheme to fraudulently obtain more than $1 million in unemployment insurance benefits.

March 19, 2025 ¡ª A longtime leader of the South Los Angeles-based Rollin¡¯ 60s Neighborhood Crips street gang ¨C who also is an entertainment entrepreneur and a self-proclaimed community activist ¨C has been charged in a federal complaint alleging he ran a criminal enterprise that committed a series of racketeering crimes, including extortion, human trafficking, fraud, and the 2021 murder of an aspiring rap musician, the Justice Department announced today.

October 17, 2022 ¡ª Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Saaed Moslem and his father Mehdi Moslem were sentenced today to 96 months in prison and 40 months in prison, respectively, for defrauding their lenders and the Internal Revenue Service (¡°IRS¡±). The defendants were previously found guilty of multiple offenses following a two-and-a-half-week jury trial in June 2021. U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel imposed the sentence in White Plains federal court.

IR-2024-178, June 28, 2024 ¡ª The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service today issued final regulations requiring custodial brokers to report sales and exchanges of digital assets, including cryptocurrency.

March 22, 2024 ¡ª A federal grand jury returned a 58-count superseding indictment Thursday adding new charges for Shahrir ¡°Sean¡± Loloee of Granite Bay, and charging Sacramento residents Mirwais Shams and Ahmad ¡°Shah¡± Shams, for their participation in the fraud conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.

Jan. 22, 2025 ¡ª Earlier today, at the federal court in Central Islip, an indictment was unsealed charging Keith Williams, Janine Davis, Morais Dicks, James Hames, Jr., Jamari Lewis, Ewendra Mathurin, and Tiffany Williams with conspiracy to defraud the United States, wire fraud, and aiding and assisting the preparation of false tax returns. Six defendants were arrested this morning in New York and will be arraigned this afternoon before United States District Judge Gary R. Brown. Jamari Lewis is not in custody and will be arraigned in the Eastern District of New York at a later date.

Feb. 21, 2025 ¡ª A citizen of Brazil appeared in U.S. District Court in Seattle today, after being extradited from Switzerland to face a 13-count indictment for wire fraud and conspiracy regarding his bitcoin investment scheme, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Teal Luthy Miller. Douver T. Braga lived in Florida between approximately 2016 and 2021 during the bulk of the alleged fraud. The indictment alleges Braga operated a bitcoin investment scheme that was really a Ponzi scheme, as well as an illegal multilevel marketing scheme.

December 20, 2023 ¡ª U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Alan Laird and Steven Rosenbaum, both of Webster, NY, who were convicted of filing a false tax return with the Internal Revenue Service, were each sentenced to serve six months in prison followed by six months home confinement by Chief U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. In addition, Laird and Rosenbaum were ordered to pay restitution to the IRS in the amounts of $632,722 and $559,898, respectively. At the time of the offense, Laird was Chief of the Irondequoit, NY, Police Department. Rosenbaum is a former police officer with the Irondequoit Police Department.