U.S. authoritiescharged five members of a Queens-based construction company Wednesday for their alleged role in a conspiracy to defraud New York City of US$12 million intended for homeless shelter renovations.

U.S. authorities charged 47 people on Tuesday for their alleged role in a conspiracy to defraud US$250 million from a federally-funded program designed to feed impoverished children during the pandemic.

A former Puerto Rico legislator was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison for engaging in a multi-year bribery and kickback scheme,announced the U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday.

Agents of the FBI arrested in southern California a Canadian man linked to a transnational drug trafficking organization that has transported more than half a ton of methamphetamine and cocaine via a network of big-rig trucks, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reported Saturday.

The leader of a Baltimore street gang with multiple murders under his belt pleaded guilty Friday to racketeering and drug conspiracy charges that could see him spend the next 40 years behind bars.

A hitman for a renowned Puerto Rican drug trafficking organization wassentenced to 40 years in prison following his guilty plea to the murder of three people as part of a  racketeering conspiracy, according to a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) statement.

A retired San Diego vice squad officer has been indicted for running a prostitution ring out of a handful of massage parlors in California and Arizona, and laundering the profits.

Austria extradited to the U.S. a Turkish businessman to face charges for laundering illicit proceeds from a renewable-energy tax credit fraud, the U.S. Justice Department said in astatement.

The U.S. Department of Justicecharged two financial asset managers with laundering money obtained illicitly from Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA), a state controlled Venezuelan oil and gas company, in what was a part of a US$1.2 billion global scheme.

Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison for helping Jeffrey Epstein traffic and sexually abuse countless young girls, in a conspiracy that dates back to at least 1994.

A global, multi-agency effort took down one of the world’s largest hacker forums and arrested several individuals, including the site’s administrator, Europol said in a press release.

The former CEO of an American drug manufacturing company appeared in court Monday on charges that he knowingly distributed medications contaminated by a bacteria dangerous to those with weakened immune systems, resulting in numerous hospitalizations and infant mortalities.

Ecuador's former Comptroller General found himself in a Miami court on Tuesday over his role in a bribery and money laundering scheme associated with Odebrecht S.A., the Brazilian conglomerate whose massive bribery scandal has rocked Latin America.

In the largest financial seizure in its history, the U.S. The Department of Justice (DOJ) took more than US$3.6 billion in cryptocurrency from a Manhattan couple that planned to launder the sum stolen during a 2016 cyber attack.

An American bank CEO guilty of bribing the former head of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign to secure a senior position in the presidential administration was sentenced to one year and one day in prison, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reported on Monday.

Four individuals were collectively charged on Wednesday in a narcotics conspiracy that resulted in the death of a well-known American actor, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

A U.S. judge sentenced the former CEO of Gulf Keystone, an oil company whose backroom deals with Iraqi-Kurdish politicians nearly led to its downfall, to five years in prison for tax evasion, the U.S. Department of Justice revealed last week.

A baby, a teenager and two adults were discovered frozen to death last week in Canada just meters from the U.S. border, apparent victims of human smuggling.

A member of the Universal Aryan Brotherhood (UAB), an American neo-Nazi white supremacist prison gang, pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy charges and is expected to serve 22 years in concurrence with his current 30-year sentence, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reported on Friday.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted on Wednesday 13 people in a healthcare fraud, money laundering, and bribery scheme totalling US$100 million, in what authorities are calling one of the largest no-fault automobile insurance fraud takedowns in history.