Theft
Five men, including Joseph Wong, Yicheng Zhang, Jose Somarriba, Shengsheng He, and Jingliang Su, have pleaded guilty to laundering more than $36.9 million from victims of an international digital asset investment scam conspiracy. The conspiracy was carried out from scam centers in Cambodia, with co-conspirators inducing U.S. victims
Fraud
The nation's largest shipbuilders and naval engineering consultancies formed a "gentlemen's agreement" not to recruit each other's employees to drive down wages, a putative class action alleged. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated the lawsuit, ruling that the alleged
Fraud
Oregon real estate investment company owner Robert D. Christensen has pleaded guilty to his role in an $18 million wire fraud and money laundering scheme, joining his business partner and co-owner Anthony M. Matic, who pleaded guilty in March 2025. The duo, owners of a real estate investment company, convinced
Fraud
Justice Mojisola Dada of the Lagos State Special Offences Court, Ikeja, has handed down a 14-year prison sentence to oil merchants Mamman Nasir Ali and Christian Taylor for their involvement in a N2.2 billion oil subsidy fraud. The duo was found guilty of conspiracy to obtain money by false
Fraud
A decade after it shook the auto industry, the Volkswagen emissions-cheating scandal has resulted in convictions for four former executives who concealed excess diesel emissions from regulators. The verdict, reached after a three-year trial, has specific implications for the company and its employees. The convicted executives, including two with multiyear
Fraud
President Trump announced on Truth Social that he is issuing a "full and unconditional" pardon to Scott Jenkins, a sheriff from Virginia who was convicted of accepting more than $75,000 in bribes. Jenkins, who served as the sheriff of Culpeper County, Virginia for over a decade, was
Fraud
A former DoorDash driver, Sayee Chaitanya Reddy Devagiri, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to steal more than $2.5 million from the San Francisco-based delivery company in 2020 and 2021. Devagiri, 30, of Newport Beach, California, admitted to working with others to cause DoorDash to pay for deliveries that never
Fraud
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Ohio announced a federal grand jury in Cleveland returned a 13-count indictment against two individuals for allegedly defrauding the Small Business Administration (SBA) of approximately $4.2 million in COVID-19 relief funds. Joseph Oloyede, 61, and Edward Oluwasanmi,
Fraud
Acting U.S. Attorney Michele Beckwith announced that a federal grand jury has returned a one-count indictment against Binghui Liu, a 32-year-old citizen of China, for his alleged involvement in a money laundering conspiracy. Between February 2024 and April 2025, Liu and other co-conspirators allegedly engaged in a scheme to
Fraud
Zhiwei "Allen" Liao, a 34-year-old San Diego resident, has been sentenced to 51 months in prison for leading an international conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit Apple products. Liao, his brothers Zhimin Liao and Zhiting Liao, and several co-conspirators were involved in a sophisticated scheme that resulted in a
Police departments
U.S. Attorney Dena J. King, Robert M. DeWitt, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in North Carolina, and Chief Johnny Jennings of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) announced that two defendants have entered guilty pleas in federal court for their respective roles in cases involving high-end stolen
Police departments
Ricardo Sanchez, a 32-year-old man from Stockton, California, has pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert. On August 20, 2023, law enforcement officers found Sanchez in possession of a Springfield Armory Hellcat 9 mm semi-automatic pistol. Sanchez is prohibited
