#wire fraud

#wire fraud

Ken Mattson and his wife Stacy, who have been fighting an eviction proceeding that stemmed from their bankruptcy filing, are going to be evicted from their $6 million Sonoma hills preoperty on June 15. As the Press Democrat was first to report, the Sonoma home will be sold, and its proceeds will become part of a restitution fund that will be used to pay back investors who lost money with Mattson.

An Ohio man was sentenced today to nine years in prison and three years of supervised release for orchestrating a cryptocurrency investment fraud scheme that raised over $10 million from investors, many of whom resided in or around Columbus, Ohio. A guilty plea came in October 2024, when Giri admitted to one count of wire fraud. He later acknowledged more misconduct through an amended plea agreement with the department. The additional conduct occurred while he remained on pretrial release before sentencing.

Gov. Gavin Newsom's former Chief of Staff, Dana Williamson, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud. Williamson was originally charged with 23 federal counts. Among the charges, she was accused of co-conspiring in a scheme to steal about $225,000 from a dormant campaign account belonging to Xavier Becerra.

Federal prosecutors stated that Erwin Bankowski and Karolina Bankowska commissioned an artist in Poland to create at least 200 forgeries, defrauding buyers of at least $2 million.

The victim, identified in court documents only as T.M., received an unsolicited letter at their home address in September 2025. The letter appeared to come from Ledger Security and Compliance and instructed the recipient to complete a mandatory security review of their Ledger hardware wallet.

Michael Smith has preempted his trial by pleading guilty to the fraud scheme, facing a maximum penalty of five years in jail for conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

The indictment alleges a group of 'fixers' agreed to recruit NCAA players who would help ensure their teams failed to cover the point spread of the first half of a game or an entire game.

Between February 2021 and December 2025, Bonheur exchanged SNAP benefits issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for cash and ineligible items, according to the charging documents. The transactions were processed through the store's point-of-sale terminal, resulting in deposits into bank accounts Bonheur designated to receive SNAP redemption payments.

Con artists posing as immigration lawyers created fake legal documents and even staged sham court proceedings to dupe migrants seeking legal pathways to U.S. residency out of their hard-earned money, according to a five-count indictment unsealed in Brooklyn Federal Court on Friday. The indictment charges five defendants with wire fraud conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering conspiracy, and two counts of false impersonation of an officer or employee of the United States, according to U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella, Jr.

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.

Industry NewsA South Carolina woman has admitted to taking part in a years-long operation that used stolen credit card information to buy ski passes later resold at steep "discounts," according to reporting by The Salt Lake Tribune. Jamilla Greene, 34, pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, acknowledging her role in a scheme that investigators say ran from late 2020 through May 2024. The operation involved Ikon and Epic passes and lift products for Utah resorts, the Tribune reported.

All 31 suspects in the explosive NBA gambling case were hauled into Brooklyn court Monday, squeezing into the largest courtroom in the building - as the feds hinted at least some may be trying to cut deals. Hoops Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups, 49, landed $5 million bail at the federal proceeding, while fellow defendants Sophia "Pookie" Wei, reputed Bonanno crime-family mobster Thomas "Tommy Juice" Gelardo and the rest of the alleged crew tied to the headline-grabbing case were there for status conferences.

Audricus Phagnasay, Jason Salazar, and Alexander Paul Travis (the latter being the US Army soldier) each pled guilty to one wire fraud conspiracy for providing their identities to North Koreans between 2019 and 2022 so the Norks could fraudulently get work at US companies. All three provided space in their homes for laptops issued by the companies they supposedly worked for and installed remote access software that allowed their North Korean comrades to appear to be working from the US, the DoJ said.

Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz have been charged with taking bribes from sports bettors to intentionally throw certain types of pitches, including tossing balls instead of strikes to ensure successful bets. According to an indictment unsealed Sunday in federal court in Brooklyn, Clase and Ortiz helped bettors from their native Dominican Republic win in-game prop bets on pitch speed and outcome by throwing certain pitches slower and down in the dirt, well out of the strike zone.