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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.

December 14, 2023 ¡ª Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that a jury returned a guilty verdict against Nadine Jazmine Wade on all four counts in the Indictment, which contained money laundering and bank fraud charges. The defendant was found guilty following a two-week trial before U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla.

October 10, 2023 ¡ª On Oct. 5, 2023, a federal grand jury returned a 23 count indictment against Ari J. Lauer, of Lafayette, charging him with conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud, bank fraud, and wire fraud affecting a financial institution, for his role in the biggest criminal fraud scheme in the history of the Eastern District of California, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.

March 4, 2025 ¡ª The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that on February 20, 2025, a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging 25 Canadian nationals with participation in a ¡°grandparent scam¡± that defrauded elderly individuals in Vermont and more than 40 other states.

April 5, 2024 ¡ª A federal grand jury returned a 16-count superseding indictment against Richard Alan Abrusci of South Lake Tahoe, charging him with 12 counts of wire fraud, one count of aggravated identity theft, and three counts of monetary transactions with proceeds of specified unlawful activity, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.

Sept. 11, 2024 ¡ª A federal grand jury in New Haven has returned a nine-count indictment charging Neilcon St. Louis of Waterbury, Connecticut, and Davidson Alexander, also known as ¡°Harley,¡± a citizen of Dominica, residing in Suffolk, Virginia, with offenses stemming from the illegal trafficking and export of firearms and firearm components from the U.S. to Dominica.

May 26, 2022 ¡ª A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment today against Christopher A. Mazzei and Erin V. Mazzei of Arroyo Grande, California. The indictment charges the defendants with wire fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy in connection with a scheme to defraud the government of forgivable Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan funds intended for COVID-19-related relief.

August 16, 2022 ¡ª Two members of a Myrtle Beach family were sentenced to federal prison, and a third to probation, for their roles in a scheme to defraud the Government out of more than $500,000 by submitting false tax returns, and by stealing economic impact payments sent to others as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. Specifically, Donna Karakatsani was sentenced to two years in prison while her son, Ivo Krasimirov Ivanov was sentenced to a year and a half in prison. Todor Milkov Stoenchev, Karakatsani's husband and Ivanov's stepfather, was sentenced to five years of probation given his more limited role in the scheme.

July 26, 2024 ¡ª A Midlothian man pled guilty yesterday to mail fraud, federal program theft, and tax evasion in connection with a scheme to misappropriate millions of dollars from the Virginia Department of Health (VDH).

Oct. 25, 2024 ¡ª Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Thomas Fattorusso, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI); James E. Dennehy, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); and Francis J. Russo, the Director of the New York Field Office of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), announced today the arrest of Arsen Lusher, who orchestrated a scheme to defraud more than 20 investors of more than $5 million between 2017 and 2021.