The return of alleged drug trafficker Zhi Dong Zhang to the United States marks a significant escalation in the Justice Department’s global campaign against high level narcotics syndicates and transnational money laundering networks. Zhang, widely known by multiple aliases including Brother Wang, is accused of directing a sprawling criminal enterprise responsible for moving large volumes of cocaine, methamphetamine, and fentanyl across Mexico and the United States while laund

Four California residents have been sentenced for orchestrating an extensive hospice fraud and money laundering operation that extracted nearly $16 million from Medicare. The case highlights the continuing threat of organised health care fraud in the United States and reinforces the Justice Department’s commitment to pursuing those who exploit vulnerable patients and critical public health programmes. On 18 November 2025, the Justice Department confirmed the most recent sente

The latest announcement from the Justice Department marks a significant escalation in US efforts to dismantle North Korea’s illicit global revenue networks. With five guilty pleas secured and over 15 million dollars in virtual currency subject to civil forfeiture, the Department has underscored both the scale and sophistication of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) exploitation of remote IT work and cryptocurrency theft to finance its weapons programmes in def

The sentencing of Travis Ford, founder and chief executive of Wolf Capital Crypto Trading LLC, underscores the persistent risks posed by high-yield cryptocurrency investment schemes and the growing determination of U S authorities to clamp down on digital-asset fraud. Ford was handed a five-year prison term on 13 November 2025 after admitting to orchestrating a Ponzi-style operation that raised 9.4 million dollars from around 2,800 investors, many of whom were lured by claims

A Latvian national has pleaded guilty in a United States federal court to conspiring with American partners to illegally export sensitive...

A New York man has been sentenced to 108 months in prison and 15 years of supervised release for attempting to provide material support...

A Pennsylvania physician has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison after a jury found he ran a scheme that combined health care...

A senior member of the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG) has been indicted in the United States on charges of wire fraud, money...

A UK national has been charged in relation to an international cyber extortion scheme that allegedly saw criminals launder tens of...

A federal jury in Miami has convicted Carl Alan Zaglin, the 70-year-old owner and chief executive of Atlanco LLC, for his role in a...

A Texas man who ran a fraudulent cryptocurrency investment scheme has been denied a bankruptcy discharge worth more than $12.5 million,...

A Ukrainian national has been charged in New York for serving as an administrator in three notorious ransomware schemes — LockerGoga,...