September 2025 Criminal Investigation press releases

Sept. 30, 2025

• Five San Fernando Valley street gang affiliates arrested on federal complaint alleging murder-for-hire plot against local crime boss
• Three men sentenced for their roles in Barnet, Vermont murder-for-hire
• Mays Landing woman admits to conspiring to defraud the IRS
• Former office manager pleads guilty to embezzling more than $1.7 million from Ocean City home builder
• Kansas City woman sentenced to 11 years for Covid-19 fraud and identity theft
• Ohio man pleads guilty to theft of government funds and money laundering, 10-year prison sentence possible
• L.A. fashion district wholesaler and executives sentenced for money laundering and avoiding customs duties and taxes
• California resident sentenced to 10 years in prison for methamphetamine trafficking

Sept. 29, 2025

• Three Chicago-area men indicted in federal court for allegedly scheming to open credit cards in the names of deceased individuals
• Butler resident pleads guilty to failure to pay payroll taxes
• Former Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy pleads guilty to conspiring with corrupt cryptocurrency figure to extort and falsely arrest rivals
• Manitowoc county woman pleads guilty to multimillion-dollar money laundering
• Federal jury finds Tennessee man guilty of wire fraud, money laundering, and making a false claim to the IRS
• Florida man sentenced to 17.5 years in prison as leader of cocaine conspiracy that shipped cocaine from Puerto Rico to Syracuse

Sept. 26, 2025

• Serial fraudster sentenced to 70 months in federal prison
• Illegal alien who skipped immigration court charged after attacking officer during arrest
• York county man sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for drug conspiracy
• Retired New York financier and his personal assistant charged with sex trafficking and transporting women to engage in commercial sex acts
• Second defendant in Lows gang fraud case pleads guilty

Sept. 25, 2025

• Forfeiture actions result in remission of more than $2.8 million to Okaloosa victim charities
• Augusta “ghost” tax return preparer sentenced to prison
• New Orleans man guilty of Cares Act fraud and money laundering

Sept. 24, 2025

• Three convicted for roles in nationwide drug distribution conspiracy
• Founder and CEO of non-profit for re-entry support services indicted on drug distribution charges
• Former executive director who embezzled over $500,000 from non-profit serving Oakland youth sentenced to more than two years in prison
• Chairman of the board of Puerto Rican bank pleads guilty to multimillion-dollar wire fraud conspiracy that led to bank’s collapse
• Toombs county man sentenced to one year in prison for filing a false tax-related document
• Roofing contractor pleads guilty to tax evasion
• High-ranking members of Sinaloa Cartel charged with material support of a foreign terrorist organization and narcoterrorism
• First defendant charged in autism fraud scheme

Sept. 23, 2025

• Texas man sentenced to prison for cattle theft scheme
• Fairview township tax collector pleads guilty to embezzling $400,000 in property taxes
• Former financial director for multinational consulting company indicted for misappropriating more than $8.2 million
• Shiprock man pleads guilty to leading massive illegal marijuana operation

Sept. 22, 2025

• Senior member of Mexican cartel indicted on wire fraud, money laundering, and terrorism charges for operating massive timeshare properties fraud scheme
• Woburn, MA man charged with bank fraud and money laundering
• Coalport, PA woman sentenced for role in methamphetamine trafficking organization
• Jury convicts St. Joseph, MO man of drug and money laundering conspiracy
• Former director of Boston nonprofit pleads guilty to fraud charges

Sept. 19, 2025

• St. Augustine, FL man pleads guilty to tax fraud
• Mexican national admits distributing cocaine in New Haven, CT
• Easton, MA man convicted of wire fraud
• Lackawanna county business owners plead guilty to failing to pay employment taxes
• York County, SC man sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for drug conspiracy
• High-volume tax preparer pleads guilty to preparing fraudulent tax returns
• Ponte Vedra man pleads guilty to conspiracy to traffic firearms and controlled substances

Sept. 18, 2025

• Defendant concealed over $1M in gross receipts by using an under-the-table cash payroll
• Belgian national sentenced to prison after defrauding investors in a $5M Ponzi scheme
• Defendants charged in first wave of housing stabilization fraud cases
• Turtle Creek resident sentenced to 11.5 years in prison for narcotics trafficking and unlawful possession of a firearm
• Fifty-sixth defendant pleads guilty in Feeding Our Future fraud scheme
• Former plantation bookkeeper sentenced to federal prison for $9.8 Million embezzlement scheme
• Former assistant district attorney in Lafayette convicted of conspiracy and bribery charges in federal case

Sept. 17, 2025

• Owner of New Jersey businesses sentenced to 41 months in prison for fraudulently obtaining over $3.2 million in paycheck protection program loans
• Rhode Island business owner sentenced to four years in prison for money laundering conspiracy and obstruction of justice
• Praetorian Group International CEO pleads guilty to $200M bitcoin Ponzi scheme
• Ohio man sentenced to prison for money laundering
• Boston man charged with loan and check fraud

Sept. 16, 2025

• Guatemalan citizen sentenced for assault of federal law enforcement officer
• Georgia man sentenced to over 4 years in prison for fraud targeting AHCCCS
• Save our Seniors efforts results in eight arrests
• Idaho husband and wife and three others charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and related charges
• Five defendants arrested on federal charges alleging bicoastal drug trafficking organization that shipped cocaine and cash via air

Sept. 15, 2025

• Denver man sentenced to 37 months, $1.2 million in restitution for defrauding investment clients
• First of a pair of men charged in massive stolen goods trafficking scheme enters guilty plea
• Self-proclaimed “Mayor of Bissonnet” sentenced to 10 years for sex crimes

Sept. 12, 2025

• Identical twins who moonlighted as golf tee-time brokers charged with failing to report more than $1.1 million in income to IRS
• Florida businessman charged with tax evasion
• Tennessee man pleads guilty to COVID-19 employment tax fraud scheme

Sept. 11, 2025

• Stamford man pleads guilty to fraud and tax charges related to theft of more than $28 million from Mars, Inc.
• Employee Retention Credit tax scheme lands Philadelphia man in federal prison for three years
• Former Washington state employee sentenced to prison for embezzling nearly $900,000
• Nadine Menendez sentenced to 54 months in prison for bribery, foreign agent, and obstruction offenses
• Former Peoria store owner convicted of twenty-one felonies after being a fugitive for fifteen years

Sept. 10, 2025

• Eight members of the House of Prayer Christian churches indicted for fraud schemes in Operation “False Profit”
• Independence pair indicted for drug and firearms offenses
• Naasón Joaquín García charged with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and child exploitation of members of La Luz Del Mundo Church
• Brockton man pleads guilty to COVID unemployment fraud

Sept. 9, 2025

• Tampa man sentenced for money laundering conspiracy and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business
• Bristol man sentenced to 6 years in federal prison for drug trafficking, defrauding COVID-19 relief program
• Worksite enforcement operation leads to five criminal arrests and more than 50 administratively detained aliens
• Mexican national pleads guilty to heroin trafficking conspiracy in Stockton
• Ocoee man sentenced to 3 years in federal prison for operating fraudulent tax preparation business
• South Windsor man sentenced to prison for defrauding immigrant clients, USCIS
• Manchester woman pleads guilty to offenses related to 2 embezzlement schemes

Sept. 8, 2025

• Stockton man sentenced to over 15 years in prison for methamphetamine and heroin trafficking
• New York man sentenced for identity theft
• Jacksonville man sentenced to federal prison for agreeing to launder over $250,000
• Wilmington restaurant owner pleads guilty to tax evasion and failure to pay employment taxes on behalf of cash-paid employees
• Owner of facility for intellectually disabled adults pleads guilty to health care fraud
• Edmond man pleads guilty after filing fraudulent paycheck protection program loan application

Sept. 5, 2025

• Local doctor pleads guilty to making false statements related to 1989 rape
• Operation Low Voltage- Homeland Security Investigations executes federal search warrant at the HL-GA Battery Company, LLC, located on the Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant American Campus in Ellabell, Georgia

Sept. 4, 2025

• Baltimore man pleads guilty to possessing 75 kilograms of cocaine
• Eight men charged with smuggling high-end vehicles overseas
• 75th defendant charged in Feeding Our Future fraud scheme
• Kansas City tax preparer pleads guilty to making false statements to a financial institution and preparing fraudulent tax returns
• Massachusetts tax preparer sentenced for filing false returns for clients
• Kenyan national charged with international money laundering in Feeding Our Future fraud scheme
• Federal grand jury indicts two in gold bar scam conspiracy that targeted senior victims

Sept. 3, 2025

• Greenwich Investment Group operator sentenced to 54 months in prison for stealing more than $3.4 million in fraud scheme
• Cambridge man sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for conspiracy, possession with intent to distribute controlled substances
• Los Angeles man pleads guilty to Kern Valley Prison-based drug conspiracy
• Chinese nationals plead guilty to fake Apple device return fraud that conned the technology giant out of more than $16 million

Sept. 2, 2025

• Mexican national charged with drug trafficking conspiracy after seizure of 29 kilograms of methamphetamine
• Arizona and Indiana individuals sentenced to federal prison for nationwide bank fraud and money laundering
• Two sentenced to prison for laundering Sinaloa cartel drug proceeds
• IRS-CI urges US taxpayers to make safe, legal sports bets