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Nov. 15, 2024 ¡ª Larry Dean Harmon of Akron, Ohio, was sentenced today to three years in prison for his operation of the darknet cryptocurrency ¡°mixer¡± Helix, which processed transactions involving over $300 million worth of cryptocurrency from 2014 to 2017.

Nov. 18, 2024 ¡ª A New York man today admitted his role in a $38 million employment tax fraud scheme involving nursing homes he owned across the country, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

Oct. 23, 2023 ¡ª A former special agent with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has been sentenced to more than six years in federal prison for tax, structuring, and concealment offenses.

Feb. 26, 2025 ¡ª A Harlingen resident and former claims specialist with the Social Security Administration (SSA) has been ordered to federal prison for theft of government property and for failure to appear for sentencing, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei.

March 5, 2025 ¡ª A district judge sentenced a Collinsville woman to 51 months¡¯ imprisonment after she embezzled more than $158,000 and stole the identity of a coworker while employed by AMK Heating and Cooling in Edwardsville.

March 27, 2025 ¡ª Matthew Podolsky, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that Paul Bielecki, a/k/a ¡°Paul HRH Saxe-Coburg-Gotha,¡± a Manhattan-based Franciscan friar, was sentenced to five years in prison for perpetrating a multi-year scheme to obtain donations for a fake medical charity purportedly operating in Beirut, Lebanon. Bielecki previously pled guilty to wire fraud on Nov. 11, 2024, before U.S. District Judge Vincent Briccetti, who imposed today¡¯s sentence.

April 1, 2025 ¡ª Today, Adanegbe Gift Osenmwenkhae (Gift) of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, pled guilty to serving as manager and supervisor of a large, multi-member, money laundering conspiracy.

April 10, 2025 ¨D The United States Attorney¡¯s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that William Freeman, IV of Tobyhanna, Pa., was charged by criminal information with one count of wire fraud and one count of making and subscribing a false tax return.

April 14, 2025 ¡ª The U.S. Attorney¡¯s Office for the Southern District of Ohio and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement¡¯s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) announced today that the United States filed a civil forfeiture complaint against assets related to an investigation into a potential $126 million illegal staffing and money laundering operation.

April 22, 2025 ¡ª Thomas G. Ehr, a longtime associate of a former defense contractor, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to an Information charging him with conspiring to defraud the United States.