Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
Fort Myers, Florida –Desmond Belmer (25, Fort Myers) has been sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Sheri Polster Chappell to three years and five months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for possessing a firearm as a previously convicted felon. Belmer previously pleaded guilty on June 25, 2026.
Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – An indictment was unsealed today charging Parker James Wilde, 29, of Draper, Utah with securities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering for multiple investment fraud schemes that resulted in millions of dollars of loss to approximately 200 victims.
Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
SAN FRANCISCO – An employee of OpenAI, a super intelligence (SI), also known as artificial intelligence, company headquartered in San Francisco, has been arrested for and charged with using or endeavoring to use an electronic, mechanical, or other device to intercept oral communications
Source: United States Department of Justice
KENNETH DENNING, 69, of Holland, Massachusetts, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in New Haven to 16 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release for offenses stemming from his operation of the Electric Blue, a strip club in Tolland, Connecticut, where he and his employees promoted and facilitated prostitution.
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An employee of OpenAI has been arrested for and charged with using or endeavoring to use an electronic, mechanical, or other device to intercept oral communications. Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a national of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, was arrested on Oct. 9, and made his initial appearance in federal court today.
“This serious situation underscores why winning the global super intelligence race is a national security prerogative — and why President Trump’s leadership in creating the Super Intelligence Force is so important,” said Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton. “I thank Director Patel and our FBI partners for their diligence and swift action. The intelligence community remains committed to safeguarding America’s cutting-edge intellectual property from foreign threats.”
“According to the complaint unsealed today, Abdulrahman Alfozan allegedly concealed a covert recording device inside his employer’s executive conference room to secretly capture sensitive communications about the company’s super intelligence technology,” said FBI Director Kash Patel. “Protecting American SI innovation is essential to safeguarding our nation’s economic strength and national security, and the FBI views that mission as one of our highest counterintelligence priorities. Thank you to Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton and our law enforcement partners for their support — and we will continue working closely with our partners across the U.S. government and private sector to keep American businesses and citizens safe and to ensure our country maintains its competitive edge.”
“The Bay Area and Silicon Valley lead the world in developing tomorrow’s technology, and our Office will continue to stand at the forefront of protecting that American innovation,” said U.S. Attorney Craig H. Missakian for the Northern District of California. “For us it is a matter of national security. This arrest highlights our relentless efforts in partnership with the FBI to identify and prosecute those who seek to steal our technology, as alleged in the complaint.”
According to the complaint, Alfozan had been employed as an engineer by OpenAI since July 2025. On or about Sept. 30, OpenAI personnel discovered a surreptitious audio recording device (Recording Device 1) inserted into a USB port on the back of a television in an executive conference room inside one of their buildings in San Francisco. OpenAI determined that the device, which had been concealed in toilet paper, was installed on or about Sept. 28, and that its contents were encrypted.
Recording Device 1
Closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage inside OpenAI’s office showed that Alfozan appeared near the executive conference room on multiple dates prior to the device’s discovery, although he had no authority to access or to participate in meetings occurring in the executive conference room. According to the complaint, meetings in the executive conference room where Recording Device 1 was discovered frequently involved discussions of highly confidential technical, commercial, and strategic information, including proprietary research, product plans, and business-development opportunities, as well as nonpublic information about Open AI’s technical progress and strategic decisions, capabilities, priorities, government engagements, and commercial relationships.
According to the complaint, prior to Sept. 28, Alfozan used a productivity tool to make multiple inquiries about Open AI’s building addresses, meeting rooms, meeting-room capacities and calendars, “leadership and exec” locations, and external partner meetings. Moreover, a chatbot account associated with Alfozan’s spouse (which shared multiple identifiers and attributes with Alfozan’s own chatbot account) submitted prompts between Sept. 24 and Sept. 30 related to building, customizing, installing, audio recording, testing, obfuscating, and remote accessing a device, including inquiries about “build[ing] a continuous audio recorder,” “customiz[ing] Wi-Fi . . . connectivity,” “improv[ing] audio and live listening,” and “encrypt[ing] the SD card,” among other things. The same chatbot account also submitted prompts specifically related to Recording Device 1, including its custom header and unique MAC address, between Sept. 27 and Sept. 28.
The complaint further alleges that on Oct. 5, Alfozan entered the executive conference room and appeared to look behind the television into which Recording Device 1 had been inserted, as captured below:
Image of Alfozan
Finally, the complaint alleges that, also on or about Oct. 5, Alfozan left a bag unattended in a different room in an OpenAI building. OpenAI security personnel found and opened Alfozan’s bag, inside which they discovered — among other things, including Alfozan’s wallet and ID — another recording device (Recording Device 2) similar to Recording Device 1.
If convicted, Alfozan faces a maximum penalty of 5 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
The FBI is investigating the case.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicolas Parker for the Northern District of California is prosecuting the case with valuable assistance from Trial Attorney Kate Tagert of the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section.
This prosecution is in support of National Security Presidential Memorandum 11 (NSPM-11) designed to support American superiority in super intelligence technology.
Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
Ashley Gause, 33, of the District of Columbia, was sentenced today to 140 months in federal prison for her role as a co-leader of a violent multi-state robbery crew that targeted more than a dozen pharmacies and cellphone stores in the District, Maryland, Virginia, and New Jersey, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.
Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
ROANOKE, Va. – First Assistant United States Attorney Robert N. Tracci today announced the release of the first Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Annual Report highlighting the district’s ongoing efforts to reduce violent crime by enhancing law enforcement partnerships across federal, state, and local agencies, including Virginia sheriff’s offices, police departments, and Commonwealth’s Attorney’s. This year’s report underscores the significant impact of three major PSN operations conducted in Danville, Roanoke, and Lynchburg. Each of these initiatives focused on identifying and prioritizing drivers of violent crime and removing them from the community, as well as seizing illegal firearms and narcotics from our streets.
Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
A Cape Cod man pleaded guilty today to a money laundering conspiracy for laundering proceeds in connection with a more than $6 million health care fraud scheme.
According to court documents and statements made in court, Leo Anzivino Jr., 35, of Falmouth, Massachusetts, conspired with others to launder health care fraud proceeds. Specifically, Anzivino agreed to be the straw or nominee owner of Advanced Medical Supply Corp. (Advanced), located in Rochester, New Hampshire, even though his co-conspirators were in fact the beneficial owners and managers of Advanced. Advanced submitted more than $6 million in claims to Medicare for durable medical equipment (DME) — such as knee braces and back braces — that Medicare beneficiaries did not need and that doctors did not prescribe. Instead, Advanced supported these claims using fake orders from physicians who did not actually write or submit those orders. Medicare paid more than $3 million as a result of these false and fraudulent claims.
Medicare beneficiaries returned boxes of DME to Advanced with notes stating that they had not ordered the products and alleging a fraud or scam, as depicted below.
Note from Medicare Beneficiary Accompanying DME Return Stating that the Beneficiary “Did Not Order” the Medical Products and that it was a “FRAUD!!”
Note from Medicare Beneficiary Accompanying DME Return Stating that the Medical Products Were Sent “Without Prior Consent of My Physician or Myself”
Note from Medicare Beneficiary Accompanying DME Return Stating that “This Must Be Some Type of Medicare Scam”
Anzivino helped hide his co-conspirator’s involvement with Advanced by being listed as the owner of Advanced on the Medicare enrollment paperwork. He also submitted false and fraudulent bank account opening documents to a bank in New Hampshire, falsely certifying that he was the sole owner of 25 percent or more of the equity interests of Advanced when others, including a co-conspirator, were Advanced’s true owners.
Anzivino then laundered the fraud proceeds by, at his co-conspirator’s direction, seeking to transfer more than $1 million from the Advanced bank account in New Hampshire to companies that were affiliated with the co-conspirator. When told by a bank employee that the bank had not reached a level of confidence that the other companies were legitimate, and that Anzivino should do his own research into these companies, Anzivino instead opened a bank account at another bank with branches in Massachusetts.
In addition, Anzivino learned that Advanced’s ability to bill Medicare would be revoked for various deficiencies, including an inability to verify proof of his ownership of Advanced. Anzivino then sent messages to another individual discussing that revocation, explaining that “All the ppl who gave me money are going to come back for it now my shits revoked,” stating that his co-conspirator “still wants me to wire him money,” and claiming that “I ain’t wiring shit.” Despite this, over the next five weeks, Anzivino proceeded to wire $1,494,938.09 across three separate transactions, each in excess of $10,000.
In 2024, the government seized approximately $353,768.29 in assets tied to the alleged scheme from Advanced’s bank account.
Anzivino pleaded guilty to one count of money laundering conspiracy. He is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 21, 2027 and faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in 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; U.S. Attorney Erin Creegan for the District of New Hampshire; Special Agent in Charge Roberto Coviello of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General (HHS-OIG); and Special Agent in Charge Ted E. Docks of the FBI Boston Field Office made the announcement.
HHS-OIG and FBI investigated the case with valuable assistance from IRS-Criminal Investigation and the Department of War Office of Inspector General’s Defense Criminal Investigative Services.
Trial Attorneys John Howard and Tiffany Wynn of the National Fraud Enforcement Division’s Health Care Fraud Section and Assistant U.S. Attorneys Matthew Hunter and Matthew Vicinanzo for the District of New Hampshire are prosecuting the case.
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.
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.
Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio has announced the unsealing of a 58-page indictment charging U.S. citizens and Chinese nationals for their roles in an IT worker conspiracy affecting more than 70 U.S. companies. These charges are the result of a year-long investigation.
Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
Baltimore, Maryland – An Arizona man is facing indictment stemming from an attack of an airline passenger that forced an emergency landing at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. Layne Lundeen, 67, of Tucson, is charged with interfering with flight crew members and attendants and assaulting those individuals by striking, beating, and wounding in connection with the incident.