Andrew Strickland, 27, was sentenced to a 21 year sentence and an additional ten years of supervised release, the U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday.
Eleven members and associates of the Brooklyn-based Woo gang were charged in a multi-million-dollar scheme to defraud the unemployment insurance program funded with COVID-19 relief.
Syracuse, NY Glen Zinszer of Liverpool, New York, pled guilty today to committing wire fraud and willfully filing false tax returns, announced Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon; Thomas Fattorusso, Acting Special Agent in Charge, New York Field Office, Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation ( IRS-CI ); and Jodi Cohen, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
As part of his guilty plea, Zinszer admitted that he began operating the Brazzlebox company in 2012, which he represented to investors would be like a Facebook for business. Beginning in April 2013 and continuing until approximately the summer of 2016, Zinszer made false representations to investors about how Brazzlebox was doing to cause them to invest more money and remain invested. In pleading guilty, Zinszer admitted that he inflated Brazzlebox s user numbers and told employees to create fictitious user accounts to inflate those fi
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A 35-year-old North Carolina man has been accused in the abductions two women in Philadelphia last November, federal officials said.
Jacob Alex Montague is currently in custody and faces charges of attempted kidnapping, stalking, aggravated assault, unlawful restraint, false imprisonment, and related offenses,
Montague tried kidnapping a 28-year-old woman at kinfepoint near the intersection of 20th and Spruce Streets around 11:20 p.m. on Nov. 1, 2020, Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams said.
The woman ran from Montague to her apartment on the 2000 block of Rittenhouse Square where she met police and identified Montague as the man who attempted to abduct her, the PhillyVoice says.
Jonathan D. Larsen, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation ( IRS-CI ), announced today the arrests of Ngoc Manh Nguyen, aka Peter Nguyen, Victoria Dieuy Ho, aka Vicky Ho, and Dat Tat Ho for a fraudulent scheme to obtain over $13 million in Government-guaranteed loans designed to provide relief to small businesses during the novel coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic. In connection with loan applications for COVID-19 relief available from the Paycheck Protection Program ( PPP ) of the SBA, the defendants falsely and grossly overstated the number of employees and payroll at their nail salons and other businesses through fraudulent and doctored payroll and tax records in order to obtain larger loans. The defendants were arrested this morning. Victoria Ho will be presented tomorrow in Manhattan federal court before U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn. Nguyen and Dat Ho will be presented in United States District Court for