Investigative Press Releases
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
FAYETTEVILLE - An Alexandria, La., physician pleaded guilty today to having conspired to violate three different federal statutes in connection with a scheme to defraud both federal and private workers’ compensation insurers.
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
BOISE – A Seattle man pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
BOSTON – A former employee of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to receiving illegal gratuity.
Kevin Richards, 51, of Hanover, pleaded guilty to one count of receiving an illegal gratuity as a public official and two counts of making false statements to a federal agency. U.S. Chief District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV scheduled sentencing for July 12, 2022. Richards was charged on Feb. 9, 2022.
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
BOSTON – A Michigan man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in connection with his involvement in a fraudulent scheme to obtain COVID-19-related unemployment assistance.
Devin Smith, 30, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns scheduled sentencing for Aug. 9, 2022. Smith was arrested on Jan. 12, 2021.
Monday, March 28, 2022
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ERIN VERESPY was sentenced to 66 months in prison for her participation in a widespread, $33 million scheme to misappropriate client healthcare funds and defraud multiple lenders through her role as the Chief Financial Officer of Employee Benefit Solutions LLC (“EBS”), an insurance firm located in Wilton, Connecticut. VERESPY previously pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel, who imposed today’s sentence.
Monday, March 28, 2022
Monday, March 28, 2022
BOSTON – A former employee of the City of Worcester’s Housing Development Office and Executive Office of Economic Development was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester for her role in a $2.3 million fraud scheme relating to the redevelopment of a multi-family property in Worcester.
Monday, March 28, 2022
HONOLULU – Paul Henri Marie Harleman, 35, of Honolulu, appeared today before United States District Judge Derrick K. Watson and pleaded guilty to six counts of wire fraud and eight counts of money laundering contained in a federal indictment. Harleman has been detained since his arrest on April 23, 2021. Harleman is scheduled for sentencing on August 2, 2022.
Saturday, March 26, 2022
DETROIT, MI – Timothy Edmunds, the former Financial Secretary-Treasurer of Local 412 of the United Auto Workers union, pleaded guilty today to embezzling $2.2 million in union funds and to money laundering, announced U.S. Attorney Dawn N. Ison.