#money-mule-indictment

#money-mule-indictment

The scheme began in March 2023, when Rambhai Patel, then 36, carried out staged armed robberies with co-conspirators at at least six convenience stores, liquor stores, and fast food restaurants in Massachusetts and other states. Prosecutors said the robberies were designed to help store clerks falsely claim they were victims of violent crimes in applications for U nonimmigrant status, commonly known as a U visa.

The Attorney General's office is accusing the alleged gun-runner, Khyle Williams, of making at least nine illegal firearms sales between May and October of 2025 both inside and outside of New York state, according to the indictment. It was the purpose of this conspiracy to obtain, possess, control, transport and sell firearms in Kings County and elsewhere inside and outside the State of New York, and to collect the proceeds from the sale of those firearms.

The 38-count superseding indictment names defendants whom prosecutors identified as members or affiliates of the Anti-Tren gang that emerged from Tren de Aragua, which federal authorities on Jan.20, 2025 designated a foreign terrorist organization. Prosecutors used racketeering conspiracy or RICO statutes, tying groups to crimes, for a wide range of actions, including some linked to an April 15, 2024 double murder in the Bronx.

DOWNTOWN - In Brooklyn federal court, Pushpesh Kumar Baid, also known as "PK Jain," was sentenced to 20 years for his role in schemes to defraud investors in Tradepay Capital LLC, a purported factoring company, and in Luxestreet, Inc., a purported luxury goods pawn shop. Baid pled guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in April 2025, approximately one week before the trial was scheduled to commence.

Like all Minnesotans, like all Americans who have heard this story, I am deeply distressed by the fraud on the state's social service programs. Most notably, in 2022, the Department of Justice indicted 47 people for stealing an estimated $246 million in funds meant to feed children during the COVID-19 pandemic. As late as 2025, 78 people have been indicted as part of the scheme and 56 have pleaded guilty,

Court documents unsealed in New Haven lay out allegations that Richard Murray and several others operated the scheme beginning as early as 2018. Investigators say victims were contacted by phone and told they had won a Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes. However, authorities allege that before collecting any supposed prize money, the winners first had to send in fees and taxes.

A pair of scammers from Queens is facing federal charges for allegedly defrauding public health programs of a combined $120 million, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reported on Monday. Inwoo Kim, also known as Tony Kim and Long Jin, 42, and Daniel Lee, also known as Daniel Yang, 56, both of Flushing, are alleged to have run an adult day care and pharmacy empire starting in 2016 based on scamming taxpayer-funded Medicaid and Medicare, to rake in an illegally obtained $120 million.

Documents published last week by the US Department of Justice reveal Epstein bankrolled the principal home and funding source for bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency, during its nascent stages; he also invested $3m in Coinbase in 2014, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the US, and cut a check that same year to Blockstream, a prominent bitcoin-focused technology firm. Both crypto startups accepted Epstein's investments in 2014 six years after his 2008 conviction in Florida for soliciting prostitution from a minor.

A Massachusetts man and woman were arrested and charged Wednesday in connection with a scheme to defraud banks in the state by fraudulently withdrawing more than $1 million, according to the office of Leah Foley, U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts. William Shaw, 67, of Boston, was indicted on four counts of bank fraud and four counts of aggravated identity theft, according to a statement from Foley's office.

According to his eight-count indictment, the ex-cop took more than $30,000 in exchange for transporting drugs, including approximately eight kilograms of cocaine; providing unauthorized armed protection for a drug trafficking enterprise; and submitting false reports to the NYPD to help a co-conspirator avoid repayment of a drug-trafficking-related debt. Nguyen entered a guilty plea to three of the indictment's eight counts bribery and narcotics distribution conspiracy, and a firearm charge before U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres Thursday.

In furtherance of the scheme, prosecutors said the five defendants created fraudulent customer accounts and driver accounts on DoorDash's platform and used the fictitious customer accounts to place orders for delivery. Using insider access to DoorDash's computer systems, the defendants assigned those orders to fraudulent driver accounts, then manipulated DoorDash's computer systems to cause DoorDash to pay the fraudulent driver accounts as if individual orders had been delivered hundreds of times.