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Investigative Press Releases

Friday, July 8, 2022
NEWARK, N.J. – A federal grand jury has indicted a Florida man for allegedly orchestrating a scheme over many years to traffic in counterfeit Cisco networking equipment with an estimated retail value of over $1 billion, Attorney for the United States Vikas Khanna, District of New Jersey, and Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite announced today.
Friday, July 8, 2022
SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Fredy Mendoza, age 34, formerly of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, was sentenced by United States District Judge Malachy E. Mannion, to 300 months’ imprisonment for methamphetamine trafficking, and 18 months’ imprisonment for committing pandemic unemployment fraud, to run concurrent with the methamphetamine trafficking sentence.
Friday, July 8, 2022
NEW ORLEANS – U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MICHAEL R. MATHERNE (“MATHERNE”), age 62, of Slidell, Louisiana was sentenced on June 7, 2022 to serve six (6) months in federal prison after pleading guilty as charged to an indictment for Theft of Federal Funds on July 22, 2021.  Additionally, the Court ordered MATHERNE to pay a mandatory $100 special assessment fee.
Friday, July 8, 2022
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A McLean man was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy that involved the submission of at least 63 fraudulent loan applications to obtain COVID-19 pandemic relief funds to which he and his co-defendants were not entitled.
Friday, July 8, 2022
ALBANY, NEW YORK – Eunice Ting, age 68, of Watervliet, New York, was arraigned today on an indictment charging theft of government property and making a false statement to obtain benefits from the United States Department of Labor, Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Special Agent in Charge Matthew Modafferi, United States Postal Service Office of Inspector General (USPS-OIG), Northeast Area Field Office.
Friday, July 8, 2022
MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that William Clayton Brown, age 39, of McIntosh County, Oklahoma was found guilty by a federal jury of Murder in Indian Country, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1111(a), 1151, and 1153. The jury trial began on Tuesday, July 5, 2022, and concluded on Thursday, July 7. Based on the jury’s verdict, the Defendant is facing a mandatory minimum sentence of life imprisonment.
Friday, July 8, 2022
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Cindy S. Hardway stole more than $250,000 over 15 years by continuing to claim her father’s pension and Social Security benefits after he passed away. The 62-year-old Newark woman was sentenced in U.S. District Court here today to pay restitution of $254,115.74, serve six months in federal prison, and spend three years under supervised release.
Friday, July 8, 2022
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – A Versailles, Mo., woman has been sentenced in federal court for filing false federal income tax returns. Angela Jo Campbell Young, 56, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Roseann Ketchmark on Thursday, July 7, to 16 months in federal prison without parole. The court also ordered Campbell Young to pay $183,715 in restitution. On Oct. 7, 2021, Campbell Young pleaded guilty to six counts of filing false federal income tax returns.
Thursday, July 7, 2022
ALBANY, NEW YORK – Reginald Thornton, age 29, and Lord Paulin, age 41, were sentenced today to federal terms of imprisonment for defrauding pandemic-related unemployment insurance programs while they were serving state prison terms at the Bare Hill Correctional Facility in Malone, New York. Additionally, Rhasha Wright, age 30, of Roosevelt, New York, pled guilty today to conspiring with Thornton and Paulin as part of the fraud scheme.
Thursday, July 7, 2022
A trio of defendants who played various roles in defrauding First State Bank of Commerce, Oklahoma, have been sentenced in federal court, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson. The check kiting scheme was carried out by two cattle dealers, John Theodore Linthicum, 53, and Douglas Todd Mayfield, 53, and a bank employee, Angela Gayle Asbell, 61, from October 2016 to January 2017. The bank lost approximately $1.2 million as a result of the scheme.

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