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Sept. 25, 2024 ¡ª A Prineville, Oregon woman was sentenced to federal prison yesterday for using stolen identities to submit fraudulent health care claims resulting in over $1.5 million in misappropriated funds from the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) Medicaid Program and filing false tax returns that failed to report earnings she received.

Aug. 5, 2024 ¡ª Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that on Friday, August 2, 2024, a jury found Arie Rangott guilty of conspiring to defraud the federal Head Start program, to submit a false document to the federal government, and to obstruct a federal administrative proceeding. Rangott was found guilty following a two-week trial before U.S. District Judge Jennifer H. Rearden and is scheduled to be sentenced on December 10, 2024.

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July 25, 2024 ¡ª Two Illinois men ¨C Erik Richard Jones and Mitchell Allen Melega were sentenced on July 23, 2024, to multi-year prison sentences following their convictions for conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering. Jones, of Colona, Illinois, was sentenced to 54 months of imprisonment to be followed by five years of supervised release, and Melega, formerly of Orion, Illinois, was sentenced to 75 months of imprisonment to be followed by five years of supervised release. Both defendants were also ordered to pay $4,840,944.63 in restitution.

August 1, 2023 ¡ª Two Orange County residents have been charged by a federal grand jury with fraudulently obtaining more than $2 million by stealing the identities of homeowners ¨C primarily elderly Vietnamese Americans ¨C and duping banks into ¡°cashing out¡± mortgages on those properties, the Justice Department announced today.

September 12, 2023 ¡ª A Kansas City, Mo., day care owner has pleaded guilty in federal court to her role in a conspiracy that resulted in a $653,329 tax loss to the federal government, as well as fraudulently collecting almost $120,000 in government benefits she was not entitled to receive.

March 17, 2025 ¡ª Marcie Jean Doty of Evansville, has been sentenced to five years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, after pleading guilty to wire fraud, failure to file tax returns, and filing false tax returns. Doty has also been ordered to pay $2,517,343.05 in restitution.

April 25, 2025 ¡ª A Windham man was sentenced today in federal court in connection with his ownership of an international technology (IT) company that contracted with the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley (United Way) while being employed by United Way, Acting U.S. Attorney Jay McCormack announces.

June 5, 2023 ¡ª Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that Reginald Fowler was sentenced to 75 months in prison for arranging to process more than $700 million of unregulated transactions on behalf of cryptocurrency exchanges, in violation of federal anti-money laundering laws, lying to U.S. banks to do so, and defrauding the Alliance of American Football (¡°AAF¡±), a short-lived professional football league, in connection with his acquisition of a significant ownership stake in the league.

November 22, 2023 ¡ª A Pennsylvania doctor and his wife have admitted their roles in schemes to solicit and receive kickbacks and bribes in exchange for ordering genetic tests, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.