A New Jersey man has been sentenced to 234 months in prison and five years of supervised release for distributing hundreds of kilograms of fentanyl analogues and laundering the proceeds, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) has confirmed. Thomas Padovano, 52, of Newark, admitted that between approximately January 2014 and September 2020 he and fellow members of a drug trafficking organisation agreed to import and distribute controlled substances and analogues, including fentany

A former Hawaii County housing official has been sentenced to 46 months in prison for accepting bribes in exchange for steering the approval of affordable housing agreements worth more than $11 million, none of which delivered a single home. Alan Scott Rudo, 59, a former Housing Specialist at the Hawaii County Office of Housing and Community Development (OHCD), conspired with two Big Island attorneys and a private businessman to receive kickbacks for using his official positi

Greg Lindberg, founder of Eli Global LLC and owner of Global Bankers Insurance Group (GBIG), has been sentenced to a combined 12 years in prison for orchestrating a multibillion-dollar fraud, money laundering and bribery scheme that collapsed several insurance companies and left thousands of policyholders unpaid. Between 2016 and 2019, Lindberg directed insurance companies under his control in North Carolina, Bermuda, Malta and elsewhere to invest more than $2bn in loans and

Two Chinese nationals have been charged with conspiracy to launder narcotics proceeds on behalf of transnational criminal organisations, including the Sinaloa Cartel and the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), according to an indictment unsealed in the Eastern District of Virginia. Ruhuan Zhen and Hongce Wu are alleged to have laundered drug money over a period spanning nearly nine years, from November 2016 to April 2025. Both defendants remain at large following their

A Georgian citizen has been sentenced to 37 months in prison for laundering more than $1.1 million in proceeds from a large-scale healthcare fraud scheme targeting Medicare and private insurers. Irakli Nakashidze, 35, a Georgian national residing in Miami, Florida, owned ABRH Care Inc (ABRH), which presented itself as a medical supply company but operated as a sham entity used to defraud Medicare. Court documents reveal that in the first six months of 2025 alone, ABRH billed

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced criminal charges against two defence contractors accused of orchestrating a long-running bribery and major fraud conspiracy that corrupted the competitive procurement process for a Department of War technology innovation lab in the Pacific. Leonard Pick, 62, of Palm Beach Shores, Florida, and Brian Kent, 59, of Tampa, Florida, are alleged to have manipulated the contracting process surrounding the US Army Pacific Com

An Ohio man has been sentenced to nine years in prison for running a cryptocurrency investment fraud scheme that raised more than $10 million from investors, many of them based around Columbus, Ohio. The case is the latest example of US authorities pursuing crypto-related fraud using traditional wire fraud enforcement powers. Rathnakishore Giri, 31, of New Albany, Ohio, was sentenced to nine years in prison followed by three years of supervised release after admitting to orch

Mehrdad Tabrizi, the owner of two Southern California medical companies, has pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering after admitting he fraudulently obtained more than $1 million in COVID-19 relief funds. The case highlights the continuing enforcement focus on abuse of pandemic-era support schemes, particularly where dormant or ineligible businesses were used to secure government-backed loans. According to the DoJ, Tabrizi used Life Fleet Inc. and Resonante Group to

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has secured a 15-year prison sentence against Mohammed Zohair Adi for money laundering conspiracy and providing false testimony, in a case centred on the laundering of proceeds from a large-scale marijuana trafficking organisation. The sentence, imposed in the Southern District of Alabama, also included a $50,000 fine and three years of supervised release. According to court documents, Adi helped launder millions of dollars linked to a netwo

Former Venezuelan Industry Minister Alex Saab has appeared in a federal court in Florida after US prosecutors unsealed an indictment accusing him of orchestrating a major international money laundering conspiracy tied to Venezuela’s CLAP food subsidy programme and illicit oil trading operations. The case marks one of the most significant US anti-corruption and sanctions-related prosecutions connected to the Maduro regime in recent years and underscores Washington’s continued

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced the arrest and charging of Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, an Iraqi national and alleged senior member of Kata’ib Hizballah, in a major terrorism case linked to Iranian-backed networks. Al-Saadi, 32, is accused of acting as an operative for Kata’ib Hizballah and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), both designated by the US as foreign terrorist organisations. Prosecutors allege he was involved in almost 20 atta

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has intensified its campaign against Mexican cartels after unsealing a superseding indictment against alleged Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG) leader Audias Flores Silva, known as “Jardinero”. Prosecutors allege Flores Silva oversaw the trafficking of cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine into the United States while coordinating the laundering of drug proceeds back into Mexico. The case marks a significant escalation in th