Category: MIL-OSI

Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division

The owner of a telemedicine company was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for organizing and leading a $46.2 million Medicare fraud conspiracy that spanned more than six years. In addition to the prison term, the defendant was ordered to pay $17,942,402 in restitution to Medicare and $10,431,463 in forfeiture.

According to court documents, Christopher Harwood, 44, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, owned and operated a telemedicine company called TelevisitMD. Harwood and his co-conspirators targeted Medicare patients through aggressive telemarketing campaigns, inducing them to accept orthotic braces and genetic tests that they did not need.

Harwood paid doctors to approve orders for orthotic braces and genetic tests. These doctors did not follow Medicare’s rules for telemedicine visits, did not have real medical relationships with the Medicare patients, and often signed orders for orthotic braces and genetic tests without any meaningful interaction with the Medicare patients. Harwood then sold the signed doctors’ orders to durable medical equipment (DME) supply companies, laboratories, and marketers who were part of the scheme.

Harwood also owned and operated multiple DME supply companies based in Florida that he used to bill Medicare millions of dollars for orthotic braces that Medicare patients did not want or need.

In total, Harwood caused $46.2 million in false and fraudulent claims to Medicare, and Medicare paid $17.9 million based on those claims. Harwood personally profited more than $10.4 million from the fraud scheme.

In March 2026, Harwood pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud.

Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald of the Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division; U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Quiñones for the Southern District of Florida; Special Agent in Charge Brett Skiles of the FBI Miami Field Office; and Acting Deputy Inspector General for Investigations Miranda Bennett of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) made the announcement.

FBI and HHS-OIG investigated the case.

Trial Attorney Owen Dunn of the Fraud Division’s Health Care Fraud Section is 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

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – AMANDA CLAYBORNE-WILLIAMS (“CLAYBORNE-WILLIAMS”), age 45, was sentenced on October 20, 2026 by U.S. District Judge Jay C. Zainey, after previously pleading guilty to wire fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343, and tax evasion, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 7201, announced U.S. Attorney David I. Courcelle.

Source: United States Department of Justice

A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned an indictment today charging Ivan Cazarin Molina, 42, a Mexican national, with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and methamphetamine for importation into the United States and possessing a firearm in furtherance of the drug trafficking offense.

According to court documents, Cazarin Molina, also known as “Tanque,” was a regional commander for the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG) in Veracruz, Mexico. On Feb. 20, 2025, the U.S. Secretary of State designated the CJNG as a foreign terrorist organization.

“Today’s indictment of Ivan Cazarin Molina, a regional leader of the CJNG, sends a clear message that the Department of Justice will find all leaders and commanders of drug cartels and transnational criminal organizations and prosecute them for their destruction of our communities through drug trafficking and violence,” said Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “Today’s charges demonstrate the Justice Department’s commitment toward the total elimination of drug cartels and transnational criminal organizations. Thanks to the hard work of our DEA partners and the Criminal Division prosecutors, these cartel leaders will be exposed and their organizations dismantled.”

“For two decades, Ivan Cazarin Molina allegedly helped fuel CJNG’s trafficking operations using intimidation and violence to protect its criminal enterprise,” said Administrator Terrance Cole of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). “The era of impunity for cartel leaders is over. DEA, working though the homeland security task force and alongside our international partners, will fight narco-terrorists wherever they operate – following every lead, severing every supply line, dismantling every organization, and bringing those responsible to justice.”

Cazarin Molina is charged with conspiracy to manufacture and distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine and 500 grams or more of methamphetamine for importation into the United States from 2005 through 2025, and using, carrying, brandishing, and discharging a firearm, in relation to the drug trafficking conspiracy. If convicted, Cazarin Molina faces a minimum penalty of 40 years in prison and a maximum penalty of two consecutive life prison terms. Cazarin Molina was arrested on Oct. 5 by Mexican law enforcement authorities in Jalisco, Mexico.

The DEA’s Special Operations Division Bilateral Investigations Unit Los Angeles is investigating the case.

Chief Kaitlin Sahni of the Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Unit (NDDU) and Trial Attorneys Maryann McGuire, Lernik Begian, and Douglas Meisel of the Criminal Division’s Money Laundering, Narcotics and Forfeiture Section (MNF) are prosecuting the case. 

MNF’s mission is to take the profit out of crime, eliminate drug cartels, and protect the U.S. financial system. MNF pursues criminal prosecutions and criminal and civil asset recovery actions involving: financial facilitators who launder profits for criminals; financial institutions and their officers and employees whose actions threaten the U.S. financial system and financial institutions; international money launderers who support transnational organized crime; and the top command and control of international drug trafficking organizations.

MNF’s Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Unit investigates and prosecutes the top command and control elements of international drug cartels, drug trafficking organizations and related transnational criminal organizations.

This case is part of the Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) initiative established by Executive Order 14159, Protecting the American People Against Invasion. The HSTF is a whole-of-government partnership dedicated to eliminating criminal cartels, foreign gangs, transnational criminal organizations, and human smuggling and trafficking rings operating in the United States and abroad. Through historic interagency collaboration, the HSTF directs the full might of U.S. law enforcement towards identifying, investigating, and prosecuting the full spectrum of crimes committed by these organizations, which have long fueled violence and instability within our borders. In performing this work, the HSTF places special emphasis on investigating and prosecuting those engaged in child trafficking or other crimes involving children. The HSTF further utilizes all available tools to prosecute and remove the most violent criminal aliens from the United States. 

An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

Source: United States Department of Justice

A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned an indictment today charging Ivan Cazarin Molina, 42, a Mexican national, with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and methamphetamine for importation into the United States and possessing a firearm in furtherance of the drug trafficking offense.

According to court documents, Cazarin Molina, also known as “Tanque,” was a regional commander for the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG) in Veracruz, Mexico. On Feb. 20, 2025, the U.S. Secretary of State designated the CJNG as a foreign terrorist organization.

“Today’s indictment of Ivan Cazarin Molina, a regional leader of the CJNG, sends a clear message that the Department of Justice will find all leaders and commanders of drug cartels and transnational criminal organizations and prosecute them for their destruction of our communities through drug trafficking and violence,” said Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “Today’s charges demonstrate the Justice Department’s commitment toward the total elimination of drug cartels and transnational criminal organizations. Thanks to the hard work of our DEA partners and the Criminal Division prosecutors, these cartel leaders will be exposed and their organizations dismantled.”

“For two decades, Ivan Cazarin Molina allegedly helped fuel CJNG’s trafficking operations using intimidation and violence to protect its criminal enterprise,” said Administrator Terrance Cole of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). “The era of impunity for cartel leaders is over. DEA, working though the homeland security task force and alongside our international partners, will fight narco-terrorists wherever they operate – following every lead, severing every supply line, dismantling every organization, and bringing those responsible to justice.”

Cazarin Molina is charged with conspiracy to manufacture and distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine and 500 grams or more of methamphetamine for importation into the United States from 2005 through 2025, and using, carrying, brandishing, and discharging a firearm, in relation to the drug trafficking conspiracy. If convicted, Cazarin Molina faces a minimum penalty of 40 years in prison and a maximum penalty of two consecutive life prison terms. Cazarin Molina was arrested on Oct. 5 by Mexican law enforcement authorities in Jalisco, Mexico.

The DEA’s Special Operations Division Bilateral Investigations Unit Los Angeles is investigating the case.

Chief Kaitlin Sahni of the Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Unit (NDDU) and Trial Attorneys Maryann McGuire, Lernik Begian, and Douglas Meisel of the Criminal Division’s Money Laundering, Narcotics and Forfeiture Section (MNF) are prosecuting the case. 

MNF’s mission is to take the profit out of crime, eliminate drug cartels, and protect the U.S. financial system. MNF pursues criminal prosecutions and criminal and civil asset recovery actions involving: financial facilitators who launder profits for criminals; financial institutions and their officers and employees whose actions threaten the U.S. financial system and financial institutions; international money launderers who support transnational organized crime; and the top command and control of international drug trafficking organizations.

MNF’s Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Unit investigates and prosecutes the top command and control elements of international drug cartels, drug trafficking organizations and related transnational criminal organizations.

This case is part of the Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) initiative established by Executive Order 14159, Protecting the American People Against Invasion. The HSTF is a whole-of-government partnership dedicated to eliminating criminal cartels, foreign gangs, transnational criminal organizations, and human smuggling and trafficking rings operating in the United States and abroad. Through historic interagency collaboration, the HSTF directs the full might of U.S. law enforcement towards identifying, investigating, and prosecuting the full spectrum of crimes committed by these organizations, which have long fueled violence and instability within our borders. In performing this work, the HSTF places special emphasis on investigating and prosecuting those engaged in child trafficking or other crimes involving children. The HSTF further utilizes all available tools to prosecute and remove the most violent criminal aliens from the United States. 

An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

Source: United States Department of Justice

BOSTON – A Boston man was sentenced on Oct. 15, 2026 in federal court in Boston for leaving a residential re-entry center where he was serving the remainder of his federal sentence after being convicted of being a felon in possession of ammunition.

Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division

Pres Braddy, 34, a previously convicted felon residing in the District, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in connection with his illegal possession of a loaded Glock 27 .40 caliber pistol, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.  

Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division

BOSTON – A Vice Lord gang member from Athol, Mass. has pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston to gun and drug charges. At the time of the offenses the defendant was on parole following multiple six- to 10-year concurrent state prison sentences.

Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division

A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned an indictment today charging Ivan Cazarin Molina, 42, a Mexican national, with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and methamphetamine for importation into the United States and possessing a firearm in furtherance of the drug trafficking offense.

According to court documents, Cazarin Molina, also known as “Tanque,” was a regional commander for the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG) in Veracruz, Mexico. On Feb. 20, 2025, the U.S. Secretary of State designated the CJNG as a foreign terrorist organization.

“Today’s indictment of Ivan Cazarin Molina, a regional leader of the CJNG, sends a clear message that the Department of Justice will find all leaders and commanders of drug cartels and transnational criminal organizations and prosecute them for their destruction of our communities through drug trafficking and violence,” said Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “Today’s charges demonstrate the Justice Department’s commitment toward the total elimination of drug cartels and transnational criminal organizations. Thanks to the hard work of our DEA partners and the Criminal Division prosecutors, these cartel leaders will be exposed and their organizations dismantled.”

“For two decades, Ivan Cazarin Molina allegedly helped fuel CJNG’s trafficking operations using intimidation and violence to protect its criminal enterprise,” said Administrator Terrance Cole of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). “The era of impunity for cartel leaders is over. DEA, working though the homeland security task force and alongside our international partners, will fight narco-terrorists wherever they operate – following every lead, severing every supply line, dismantling every organization, and bringing those responsible to justice.”

Cazarin Molina is charged with conspiracy to manufacture and distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine and 500 grams or more of methamphetamine for importation into the United States from 2005 through 2025, and using, carrying, brandishing, and discharging a firearm, in relation to the drug trafficking conspiracy. If convicted, Cazarin Molina faces a minimum penalty of 40 years in prison and a maximum penalty of two consecutive life prison terms. Cazarin Molina was arrested on Oct. 5 by Mexican law enforcement authorities in Jalisco, Mexico.

The DEA’s Special Operations Division Bilateral Investigations Unit Los Angeles is investigating the case.

Chief Kaitlin Sahni of the Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Unit (NDDU) and Trial Attorneys Maryann McGuire, Lernik Begian, and Douglas Meisel of the Criminal Division’s Money Laundering, Narcotics and Forfeiture Section (MNF) are prosecuting the case. 

MNF’s mission is to take the profit out of crime, eliminate drug cartels, and protect the U.S. financial system. MNF pursues criminal prosecutions and criminal and civil asset recovery actions involving: financial facilitators who launder profits for criminals; financial institutions and their officers and employees whose actions threaten the U.S. financial system and financial institutions; international money launderers who support transnational organized crime; and the top command and control of international drug trafficking organizations.

MNF’s Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Unit investigates and prosecutes the top command and control elements of international drug cartels, drug trafficking organizations and related transnational criminal organizations.

This case is part of the Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) initiative established by Executive Order 14159, Protecting the American People Against Invasion. The HSTF is a whole-of-government partnership dedicated to eliminating criminal cartels, foreign gangs, transnational criminal organizations, and human smuggling and trafficking rings operating in the United States and abroad. Through historic interagency collaboration, the HSTF directs the full might of U.S. law enforcement towards identifying, investigating, and prosecuting the full spectrum of crimes committed by these organizations, which have long fueled violence and instability within our borders. In performing this work, the HSTF places special emphasis on investigating and prosecuting those engaged in child trafficking or other crimes involving children. The HSTF further utilizes all available tools to prosecute and remove the most violent criminal aliens from the United States. 

An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division

United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Ryan Raybould announced a Fort Worth man, who has a previous conviction for sexual offenses against a child, was sentenced to 327 months in federal prison for sexually exploiting a minor on Sept. 29.