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Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division

Alexander Gurevich, 49, an Israeli national, had his initial appearance today in the Northern District of California on a 2023 indictment that charged him for exploiting the Nomad Bridge’s self-executing computer program, also known as a smart contract, to steal $2.89 million in virtual currency.Gurevich was arrested in May 2025 in Israel and was recently extradited to the United States.  

According to the indictment, on or about Aug. 1, 2022, Gurevich is alleged to have executed four exploit transactions from the Nomad Bridge and transferred a total of 103 WBTC (Wrapped Bitcoin) and 300 WETH (Wrapped Ether) from Nomad’s virtual currency address to a virtual currency address controlled by Gurevich through unauthorized and non-authenticated transactions. The estimated value of this virtual currency was approximately $2,894,390 at the time of the transactions. Shortly after he stole this virtual currency, Gurevich conducted a number of financial transactions to convert the virtual currency to other types of virtual currency, including Bitcoin, and continued to transfer the funds to multiple virtual currency addresses in order to conceal and disguise the nature, location, source, ownership, and control of the proceeds of his unlawful activity.   

Gurevich is charged with causing damage to a protected computer, interstate transportation of stolen money, and money laundering. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for causing damage to a protected computer, as well as for interstate transportation of stolen money, and 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for money laundering. 

Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Craig H. Missakian for the Northern District of California, and Special Agent in Charge Scott R. Schelble of the FBI made the announcement. 

The FBI is investigating the case. The Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs and Israeli authorities provided substantial assistance. 

Trial Attorneys Jessica Peck and Ethan Cantor of the Criminal Division’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section and the Northern District of California 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.

Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division

U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Quiñones for the Southern District of Florida today joined U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Inspector General John Walk and federal, state, and local law enforcement partners to launch the Hunger Assistance Enforcement and Accountability Teams (HEAT) initiative, a coordinated effort to investigate and prosecute fraud involving federal nutrition assistance programs. South Florida will serve as the first pilot location for the national initiative, underscoring the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s commitment to protecting taxpayer-funded assistance programs and holding accountable those who exploit resources intended for vulnerable Americans.

Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division

Disappointed in his inability swiftly bring charges in the tragic Salgado shooting in July, the Harris County District Attorney now appears determined to put a different federal agent’s scalp on the wall. This time, he’s pursuing what looks like a political prosecution of an ICE agent for doing his job—exactly what his allies have been agitating for

Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division

BOSTON – A Boston man, who was born in the Dominican Republic and is a Lawful Permanent Resident, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to stealing the identity of a U.S. citizen from Puerto Rico and using the stolen identity to obtain more than $20,000 in federally funded benefits from Massachusetts.

Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division

Tallahassee, Florida – Jonathan Deon Morehead, 38, of Atlanta, Georgia, was found guilty by a federal jury in Tallahassee following a trial for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The verdict was announced by John P. Heekin, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida. 

Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division

An incarcerated reputed leader of the Orange County Mexican Mafia and two of his gang associates have been charged in a superseding indictment with the murder in San Juan Capistrano of a victim who was killed in his home on Christmas morning 2016, the Justice Department announced today.

Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division

DAVID L. JOHNSON, 67, of Greenwich, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 66 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release for stealing more than $2 million from an elderly victim and his estate.

Source: United States Department of Justice

DAVID L. JOHNSON, 67, of Greenwich, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 66 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release for stealing more than $2 million from an elderly victim and his estate.

Source: United States Department of Justice

Francisco Manuel Bermúdez Cagua, also known as “Churrón,” will be arraigned in federal court in Brooklyn this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge Peggy Kuo on a superseding indictment charging him with international cocaine distribution conspiracy, international cocaine distribution, and use of firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking.  Bermúdez Cagua is a top leader of Los Choneros, a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) based in Ecuador that is responsible for significant drug trafficking into the United States, firearms trafficking from the United States and acts of extreme violence.  He was extradited from Ecuador to the Eastern District of New York on October 29, 2026.

Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division

Ammaad Akhtar, 34, of California, pleaded guilty today to attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.

According to court documents, between February 2025 and June 2025, Akhtar, a citizen of the United States, attempted to provide funds, weapons, and other equipment to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). He communicated online with an online undercover officer, whom he believed was a member of ISIS. In these conversations, Akhtar voiced his support for ISIS and jihad, expressed a desire to travel overseas to join and fight with ISIS, and stated a desire to send guns and money to ISIS.

In April 2025, during this investigation, Akhtar demonstrated a desire to provide support of ISIS and did so by providing financial funding on multiple occasions. After a few payments, the online undercover officer indicated that ISIS had procured several guns with the money Akhtar had sent. In his response, Akhtar said, “May Allah destroy our enemies” and affirmed that he will send more money that same day.

Akhtar also talked about planning acts of violence, including conducting an attack against a specific individual and an attack utilizing homemade explosives. He said that he “want[s] to die in the cause of Allah fighting the kuffar [infidels]” and asked for instructions on how to make a homemade explosive device in order “to make a boom” at a populated event.

Then, on June 23, 2025, Akhtar met with an individual he believed was an ISIS associate, but who was actually an undercover agent. Akhtar provided clothing, binoculars, $400 cash, two loaded guns, and six additional magazines. Akhtar then swore bayat (a pledge of loyalty) to ISIS.

Akhtar is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 26, 2027. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

The FBI Field Offices in New York and Sacramento and the New York City Police Department conducted the investigation. 

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Elliot Wong and Charles Campbell for the Eastern District of California and Trial Attorney Ryan D. White of the National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section are prosecuting the case.