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According to court records, the ring used legitimate websites like Craigslist.org and AutoTrader.com to advertise luxury cars, boats and recreational vehicles for sale.

A Jamaican man, Oneike Mickhale Barnett, was arrested Tuesday and charged with participating in a telemarketing conspiracy and committing 37 counts of wire fraud.

Murmylyuk admitted that he participated in a conspiracy to steal from online trading accounts at Scottrade, E-Trade, Fidelity, Schwab and other brokerage firms.

The investigation began seven years ago. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) received a call from the City of London Police. Victims were coming out of the woodwork. They had been duped into investing thousands - some their whole life savings - into an international investment fraud and money laundering scheme with ties to central Florida.

Former Maryland healthcare employee Derrick Elrod was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with a scheme to use stolen personal identities to open bank accounts and fraudulently obtain cash, merchandise and services.

Daniel Munteanu, a Romanian national who traveled to the U.S. to facilitate an online auction scheme to scam eBay buyers, pleaded guilty Monday to bank fraud, following an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

GB Check Cashing LLC, a check cashing company licensed in New Jersey, pleaded guilty Thursday and was ordered to forfeit more than $1 million for failing to file currency transaction reports as required by law. The investigation was conducted by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

During 2011 and 2012, Torres prepared and filed 239 fraudulent tax returns with the IRS on behalf of his clients.

Prosecutors allege the scheme involved billing Medicaid for more than $300,000 in personal care attendant services that were never provided. According to court records, Good Faith Services, LLC, which furnishes personal care, transportation and care coordination services to eligible Medicaid beneficiaries, provided kickbacks to participating Medicaid recipients.

The former president of the San Diego Customs Brokers Association and his corporation have been sentenced for their role in a multimillion dollar commercial fraud scheme to evade paying import duties on goods they imported into the United States.

A Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty Thursday to federal wire fraud charges in connection with a Ponzi scheme. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the FBI conducted the investigation.

ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents, working jointly with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers arrested five individuals and indicted three companies who allegedly participated in a conspiracy to smuggle and clandestinely introduce aluminum imported from China by passing false and fraudulent invoices...

Seven Los Angeles-area residents have been charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud for allegedly participating in an identity theft scheme that targeted hundreds of JP Morgan Chase and Co. account holders across the nation and caused more than $1 million in losses.

Four individuals were arrested Tuesday and charged with various counts of bank fraud, money laundering and wire fraud. The defendants engaged in a bank fraud scheme using straw buyers as loan applicants to obtain loans using false financial information and documentation.

The indictment alleges that as a result of the conspiracy, lenders provided more than $3.5 million for fraudulently obtained loans.

The eight defendants are charged together in a criminal complaint with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, money laundering and identity theft.

Paul David Cardwell, with other co-conspirators, allegedly defrauded a Wyoming hospital of about $850,000 and traveled to Thailand to purchase real estate with the proceeds. HSI Bangkok began an investigation into Cardwell's activities in Thailand.

O'Brain J. Lynch is believed to be the first Jamaican national charged in the United States for this type of fraud. A Jamaican lottery scheme is a form of mass-marketing fraud in which potential victims are led to believe they won an international multi-million dollar lottery and are informed they must pay an advance fee to get the prize.

A forfeiture judgment was executed Friday against real estate property with an estimated value of more than $700,000 in Rockville, Md., purchased with corruption proceeds traceable to Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha, a former Governor of Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

Marijan Cvjeticanin was arrested Wednesday and charged with defrauding two international companies out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by fraudulently billing them for advertising services that were never provided.

The Manhattan U.S. attorney and representatives from several law enforcement agencies announced Tuesday an indictment charging Liberty Reserve, one of the world's largest digital currency companies, and seven of its principals and employees with money laundering and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business.

ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents, with the assistance of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Puerto Rico Police Department and Puerto Rico's Department of Treasury, arrested 39 individuals in nine Puerto Rican municipalities Friday during an operation dubbed Easy Check.

A former Key West Bank officer, Karen Galo, pleaded guilty Thursday to unlawfully disclosing a federal grand jury subpoena to a third party with intent to obstruct a judicial proceeding. The guilty plea resulted from an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

Freddy Mauricio Tellez-Buitrago and Adriana Gonzalez-Marquez, both Colombian nationals, face obstruction of justice charges for stealing sensitive and confidential U.S. law enforcement information concerning prosecutions in the Eastern District of New York and selling that information to a narcotics trafficker.

David Olmsted pleaded guilty to evading reporting requirements for foreign currency transactions and will forfeit assets and currency worth at least $1.2 million, including about 449,000,000 Iraqi dinars (valued at $404,000).