From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of Washington: Seattle – A former Washington State resident who now resides in Texas was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 30 months in prison for Aggravated Identity Theft and Bank Fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. Jeanne Ang Rather, 51, was indicted in May…

From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Missouri: ST. LOUIS – A jury in U.S. District Court in St. Louis on Tuesday found a woman from Jefferson County, Missouri guilty on all 26 felony charges she faced for defrauding the Social Security Administration and private disability insurers with false disability claims. Elizabeth Guetersloh, 67, was…

From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Massachusetts: BOSTON – A Stoughton man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to charges in connection with using the identifying information of another person to apply for a driver’s license and United States passport. Wilfrido Baez Villar, 49, pleaded guilty to one count of false representation…

From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of California: SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sashana James, 32, of New London, Connecticut, was sentenced today to one year and one day in prison and ordered to pay $490,485 in restitution for her participation in a conspiracy to steal from the Social Security Administration, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert…

From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of New Jersey: NEWARK, N.J. – Two former residents of Monmouth County, New Jersey, who allegedly obtained approximately $3.75 million in federal pandemic-related loans have been indicted, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today. Jean Rabbitt, 52, and Kevin Aguilar, 52, both of Sherman, Texas, and both previously of…

From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Colorado: Denver – The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces that Dhruv Jani, age 40, formerly of Wray, Colorado, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to commit money laundering. According to the plea agreement, starting in January 2020, Jani was part of a conspiracy to…

From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Alabama: MOBILE, AL – A federal jury convicted a Mobile resident this week for wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and making false statements to the Small Business Administration (“SBA”) and Social Security Administration (“SSA”). According to court documents and evidence presented at a three-day trial, Kartarius Dewan…

From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of California: SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Jenice Nicholas, 35, of Pompano Beach, Florida, was sentenced today to one year and one day in prison for her participation in a conspiracy to steal from the Social Security Administration (SSA), U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court documents, between…

From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that restaurateur BESIM KUKAJ was sentenced to 57 months in prison for orchestrating a sprawling loan fraud scheme, including while he was on pretrial release, whereby he fraudulently sought at…