Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
Baltimore, Maryland – The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland announced, today, that it recently secured multiple immigration-related prosecutions against illegal aliens, including against a sex offender, in connection with the Department of Justice’s Operation Take Back America.
Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
Jacksonville, Florida – Tyler Bruce McClure (25, Jacksonville) has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jordan E. Pratt to 12 and 7 months in federal prison for using social media apps to distribute videos depicting toddler-aged children being sexually abused over the internet. McClure was also ordered to serve a 13-year term of supervised release, pay $16,000 in restitution to child victims, and register as a sex offender. On November 17, 2025, McClure was arrested in Jacksonville and has been in custody since that time.
Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
Orlando, Florida – Rusbel Montoya Mandujano (32, Oviedo) has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Anne-Leigh Gaylord Moe to 25 years in federal prison for attempting to coerce and entice a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity. The Court also ordered him to forfeit his cellphone, which was used during the offense. Montoya Mandujano was found guilty by a jury on March 24, 2026.
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New Orleans, Louisiana – Today, United States Attorney David I. Courcelle for the Eastern District of Louisiana, announced the sentencing of a local fraudster as part of a nationwide enforcement action led by the Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division, Internal Revenue Service, and Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation that targeted tax fraud and related offenses. The Eastern District of Louisiana was a key participant in this anti-fraud surge effort.
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United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Ryan Raybould today announced several legal proceedings as part of nationwide enforcement actions led by the Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division, the Internal Revenue Service and Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation targeting tax fraud and related offenses. The Northern District of Texas was key participant in this surge effort.
Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
A Miami, Florida man pleaded guilty yesterday for his role in a conspiracy to distribute over 87,000 oxycodone 30mg pills.
According to court documents and statements made in court, Jose Llerena, 49, of Miami, Florida, conspired with others, including Olushola Yusuf—a pharmacist and pharmacy owner convicted at trial earlier this year for illegally dispensing over 300,000 oxycodone 30mg pills—to illegally distribute oxycodone to individuals who had no medical need for the drug. Llerena was a “patient recruiter” who paid individuals to pose as patients and obtain illegal and unnecessary oxycodone prescriptions from South Florida clinics and doctors. Llerena then took his recruits and their illegal prescriptions to Yusuf’s pharmacies in order to get the pills. Yusuf kept a list of Llerena’s recruits at her pharmacy. Llerena paid Yusuf cash for the drug at above market value.
List Seized by Law Enforcement from Yusuf’s Pharmacy of Purported “Patients” Llerena Recruited to Illegally Obtain Oxycodone Pills
Llerena then paid his recruits, usually via Zelle, for the oxycodone pills before reselling the pills on the street. Llerena was personally responsible for distributing 3,735 oxycodone pills.
Llerena pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance. A sentencing date has not been set. Llerena faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald of the Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division; United States Attorney Jason A. Reding Quiñones for the Southern District of Florida; Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) Acting Deputy Inspector General for Investigations Miranda Bennett; DEA Special Agent in Charge Miles Aley, Miami Field Division; and FBI Special Agent in Charge Brett Skiles made the announcement.
HHS-OIG, DEA, and FBI investigated the case.
Trial Attorney Angela Benoit of the Fraud Division’s Health Care Fraud Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jacqueline DerOvanesian for the Southern District of Florida are prosecuting the case.
The Department of Justice’s Health Care Fraud Strike Force Program, currently comprised of nine strike forces operating in federal districts across the country, has charged more than 6,200 defendants who collectively billed federal health care programs and private insurers more than $45 billion since 2007. In addition, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, working in conjunction with the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services, are taking steps to hold providers accountable for their involvement in health care fraud schemes. More information can be found at www.justice.gov/criminal-fraud/health-care-fraud-unit.
On April 7, the Department of Justice announced the creation of the Fraud Division. The Fraud Division is laser-focused on investigating and prosecuting those who commit fraud against the American people. The Department’s work to combat fraud supports President Trump’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, a whole-of-government effort chaired by Vice President J.D. Vance to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse within Federal benefit programs.
Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
An indictment was unsealed today in the Northern District of Georgia charging two brothers and a third man with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, mail fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering, all arising out of a $74 million scheme to defraud the IRS through the filing of fraudulent tax returns.
The following is according to the indictment: from 2019 to the present, Gustavo Rojano Salazar, Gabriel Rojano Salazar and Andres Huerta Rendon, who all resided in the Atlanta area and were Mexican citizens, obtained Mexican identification documents in the names of third parties. They used these identification documents to obtain Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITIN) with the IRS. An ITIN was a number issued by the IRS to an individual who was required to file a federal tax return, but who did not have or was not eligible to receive a Social Security number. The three co-conspirators directed the IRS to mail the ITIN letters to post office boxes they controlled. In total, the co-conspirators obtained a significant number of Mexican Identification cards and ITIN letters, as depicted in the photo below:
Mexican Identification cards and ITIN letters
After receiving the ITIN information, the co-conspirators prepared and filed fraudulent tax returns in the names of the Mexican ITIN holders that included fabricated Forms W-2 reporting certain income and withholdings. Each of these returns resulted in refunds, which the co-conspirators directed to be mailed to the post office boxes they controlled. The co-conspirators then collected the resulting U.S. Treasury refund checks issued in the names of the Mexican ITIN holders and cashed them using a check cashing company. In total, the three co-conspirators and others cashed more than 16,000 U.S. Treasury tax refund checks worth over $74 million. Below is a photograph of cash from a photograph taken by one of the defendants:
Image of cash from a photograph taken by one of the defendants
Gustavo Rojano Salazar and Gabriel Rojano Salazar are also charged with knowingly making false statements on immigration forms submitted under penalties of perjury.
All three defendants face maximum penalties of 20 years in prison for each count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, mail fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Gustavo Rojano Salazar and Gabriel Rojano Salazar also face a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison for each count of making false statements on immigration forms.
Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald of the Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division and United States Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg of the Northern District of Georgia made the announcement.
IRS Criminal Investigation, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and Homeland Security Investigations are investigating the case.
Senior Litigation Counsel Michael C. Boteler of the Fraud Division’s Tax Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Kelly K. Connors of the Northern District of Georgia are prosecuting the case.
An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
On April 7, the Department of Justice announced the creation of the Fraud Division. The Fraud Division is laser-focused on investigating and prosecuting those who commit fraud against the American people. The Department’s work to combat fraud supports President Trump’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, a whole-of-government effort chaired by Vice President J.D. Vance to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse within Federal benefit programs.
Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
Today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Maliek Miller, a leader of the Ninedee Gang, a violent criminal enterprise operating out of the Louis H. Pink Houses (Pink Houses) in East New York, Brooklyn, was sentenced by United States District Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall to a mandatory sentence of life in prison. Miller was convicted in June 2024 following a jury trial of murder in-aid-of-racketeering for the murder of former federal witness Shatavia Walls in July 2020 and related crimes, including racketeering, conspiracy to commit murder in-aid-of racketeering, unlawful use and possession of firearms, being a felon in possession of ammunition and conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana.
Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Texas today announced results as part of a nationwide enforcement action led by the Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division, the Internal Revenue Service, and Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation targeting tax fraud and related offenses. The Eastern District of Texas was a key participant in this surge effort.
Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced today that U.S. District Judge Eric C. Schulte has sentenced a man from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender. The sentencing took place on October 6, 2026.