Chairman Collins, Ranking Member Casey, and Members of the Committee: Thank you for inviting me to testify today. I am pleased to be here to discuss the efforts of my office to raise public awareness of Social Security telephone scams and to disrupt the scams. Introduction and Overview For the better part of a decade,…

From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of New Jersey: NEWARK, N.J. – A Somerset County, New Jersey, woman today admitted fraudulently obtaining over $1 million in federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL), U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced. Nivah Garcis, 51, of North Plainfield, New Jersey, pleaded guilty before…

From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of Texas: SAN ANTONIO – Today a federal jury convicted a Dripping Springs woman for defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Social Security Administration (SSA) of over $300,000. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Josephine Casandra Perez-Gorda, 39, defrauded the VA and…

From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Middle District of Florida: Orlando, Florida – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that a federal jury has found Robert Butzlaff (57, Volusia County) guilty of four counts of fraudulent use of an unauthorized access device and aggravated identity theft. Butzlaff faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in…

From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Louisiana: NEW ORLEANS, LA – U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CATHERINE CAMPBELL WILLIAMS, age 69, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced after previously pleading guilty to Theft of Government Funds, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 641. According to court documents, beginning…

From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Louisiana: NEW ORLEANS – United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that LINDA REED HILL (“HILL”), age 75, of Slidell, Louisiana, pled guilty today to Theft of Government Funds in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 641. Beginning in or about May 1, 2004, and…

From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of California: SAN DIEGO – Jon J. Kahen of Great Neck, New York, pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to four counts of money laundering in his role as a telecommunications company owner who facilitated and profited from the introduction of fraudulent robocall traffic into the United States.…

From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of California: SAN DIEGO – Jon J. Kahen of Great Neck, New York, pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to four counts of money laundering in his role as a telecommunications company owner who facilitated and profited from the introduction of fraudulent robocall traffic into the United States.…

From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Ohio: CLEVELAND – Carlos Dashawn Brown, 28, of Bowling Green and Cleveland Heights, Ohio, was sentenced on Wednesday, September 14, 2022, to 38 months in prison and ordered to pay $177,716.07 in restitution by U.S. District Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. after Brown pleaded guilty to the unauthorized…

From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Connecticut: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARVEL JOHNSON, 50, a citizen of Jamaica residing in Derby, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 12 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised…