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Current news
August 6
- Four Georgia men sentenced for $17 million pandemic-relief fraud
- August federal grand jury 2026-A indictments announced
- Homeland Security Task Force investigation delivers federal jury conviction of Pensacola armed drug trafficker
- Defendant in largest methamphetamine seizure in New Jersey history admits to drug distribution conspiracy
- Illinois man sentenced to 15 months in prison for failing to pay employment taxes
- Calabasas man sentenced to 27 years in federal prison for running ‘DoorDash for drugs’ service that led to two fatal fentanyl OD’s
- Ventura County tax preparer sentenced to more than 2 years in federal prison for filing more than 1,700 false returns
- Illegal alien living in Dallas sentenced to 13 years in federal prison as part of Homeland Security Task Force investigation for trafficking methamphetamine in the Eastern District of Texas
August 5
- New charges and rewards announced for the capture and/or conviction of senior leaders of notorious Mexican cartel
- Pflugerville woman sentenced to federal prison for defrauding PPP loan program
- Memphis tax preparer pleads guilty to filing false returns for clients
- Las Vegas woman sentenced to prison in $5m refund fraud scheme
- Leader of drug trafficking organization that sold fentanyl, cocaine, and meth in ‘The Jungle’ and International District sentenced to ten years in prison
- Former Denver man sentenced to 42 months for complex fraud scheme
- Homeland Security Task Force: Dual Dominican and French national admits role in firearms trafficking scheme
- Nigerian citizen and three other individuals sentenced in connection with a $1.7 million money laundering operation
- Convictions through guilty pleas and sentencings in Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) prosecutions (July 27 through July 31, 2026)
August 4
- Rocky Mount tax preparer pleads guilty in $3.9m fraud scheme
- EDNC US Attorney’s Office joins new Southeast fraud enforcement partnership
- The Fraud Division announces charges against 19 defendants for Medicaid home health aid schemes expands
- Dozens charged with health care fraud in federal and state cases involving $5.76 million in billings to Pennsylvania’s Medicaid program
- New federal charges filed against two defendants in Providence-area gang racketeering case; arraignments completed for all arrested defendants
- Inmate who ran gun trafficking organization from state prison sentenced in Homeland Security Task Force investigation
- NJ man pleads guilty to document fraud
- Bronx man going to prison for bank fraud conspiracy and ID theft
August 3
- U.S. Attorney Phillip W. Williams Jr. joins the Department of Justice to announce unprecedented fraud enforcement actions across the Southeast
- Crestview woman federally indicted for fraud offenses totaling over four million dollars
- Eastern District of Texas prosecutes multiple defendants as part of Homeland Security Task Force investigations in July 2026
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