SAN FRANCISCO CA Feb 1, 2022 — A Northern California man has been charged with stealing other people’s identity to illegally obtain more than $1 million in unemployment benefits for people affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Federal prosecutors announced the charges against Idowu Shittu of Castro Valley on Friday. They said he used the personal information […]
OAKLAND, Calif. January 27, 2022— A former bishop and lay leader of an historically African American church have been charged with defrauding California congregations by mortgaging their properties in order to obtain $14 million in loans they used for personal expenses, authorities said Tuesday. A federal indictment unsealed Tuesday accuses Staccato Powell, 62, of Wake […]
Baltimore MD January 15, 2022 A federal grand jury in Maryland has indicted Marilyn Mosby, the state’s attorney for Baltimore City, on two counts of perjury and making false statements on mortgage applications that she allegedly used toward the purchase of two vacation properties in Florida, according to a case unsealed Thursday. Mosby gained national […]
SAN JOSE CA Jan 15, 2022 A retired officer with the San Jose Police Department was convicted Friday in a multi-million dollar fraud involving a private security business he was running without the department’s knowledge, prosecutors said. According to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office, 48-year-old Robert Foster pleaded no contest to $1.13 million […]
HONOLULU HI Jan 14, 2022 An Oahu company that provides security guards to public and private facilities will have to pay over $1.5 million in back wages after a federal investigation determined it illegally denied workers overtime pay. Investigators with the U.S. Department of Labor said Alii Security Systems Inc. established a “voluntary program” that […]
Biloxi MS Jan 9 2022 A Biloxi Veterans Affairs employee accused of stealing medical equipment, electronics and other government property and reselling the goods has been sentenced to prison, prosecutors said. Chad Jacob worked as assistant chief of the supply chain management for the VA, and stole property from 2009 until December 2020, according […]
BUFFALO, N.Y. Jan 7 2022– U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Alicia Raynor, 44, of Westfield, NY, who was convicted of wire fraud and filing a false tax return, was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison and 18 months home detention by U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr. The defendant was also […]
Zebulon, North Carolina Dec 21 2021 A Wake Forest man was sentenced Thursday, December 16, 2021 to 48 months in prison and five years of supervised release for embezzlement from a credit union, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of North Carolina. Johnnie Earl Harrell, 49, pleaded guilty […]
NORFOLK, Va. Dec 3 2021 Two men have pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining more than $220,000 pandemic unemployment benefits while they were inmates at a Virginia prison from June 2020 to March 2021. The U.S. Department of Justice said the men were incarcerated at Greensville Correctional Center in Greensville County, Virginia, while the fraud took place. […]
MISSOULA MT Nov 14 2021— Matthew A. Marshall, the 51-year-old Whitefish man who conned venture capitalist Michael Goguen out of millions of dollars by claiming to be a former CIA agent engaged in covert missions around the world, pleaded guilty on Nov. 10 to federal crimes of wire fraud, money laundering and tax evasion. In […]