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    Federal, State, and Local Agencies Combine Forces for Operation Clean House in Memphis
    Memphis, TN – Operation Clean House: Memphis concluded with a total of 17 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Inspector General (OIG) arrests including 7 Memphis Safe Task Force (MSTF) assists.  The majority of the 24 individuals taken into custody were current HUD program participants apprehended within HUD housing units. Several subjects also had extensive criminal histories or multiple active charges at the…
    Press release
    June 01, 2026
    Former Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority Executive Sentenced to 36 Months in Prison for Fraud, Conflict of Interest, False Statements, and Money Laundering
    St. Thomas, VI –United States Attorney Adam F. Sleeper announced today that former Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority (“VIHFA”) Chief Operating Officer Darin Richardson was sentenced today to 36 months of imprisonment by United States District Judge Mark A. Kearney following his convictions for criminal conflict of interest, bank fraud, making false statements to a federal agent, making false statements on a loan and credit application,…
    Press release
    March 27, 2026
    VIRGIN ISLANDS GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS CHARGED IN $4 MILLION DOLLAR HUD FRAUD SCHEME
    St. Croix, VI – United States Attorney Delia L. Smith announced today that Department of Education Director of Maintenance, Davidson Charlemagne, 50, and his wife Sasha Charlemagne, 44, both of St. Croix, were arrested after a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging the pair with government program fraud, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy. The indictment also charges former Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority (“VIHFA”)…
    Press release
    June 13, 2024
    United States Inspector Generals Commit to Fighting Waste, Fraud and Abuse of Federal Funds in the Virgin Islands
    St. Thomas, VI – Dozens of federal Inspector General officials gathered in St. Thomas on March 22-23, 2023, for the first Virgin Islands Office of Inspector General Spring Symposium. The federal oversight and law enforcement officials spent two days collaborating and sharing information as part of their ongoing commitment to protect federal funds awarded to the Virgin Islands. “As a result of Hurricanes Irma and Maria and the COVID-19 pandemic…
    Press release
    March 29, 2023
    Middle Tennessee Investors To Pay $200,000 To Settle False Claims Act Allegations Regarding HUD Program
    NASHVILLE, Tenn. – March 22, 2021 – Laziza Abdullaeva and Aziz Ashurov of Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, agreed to pay $200,000 to settle False Claims Act allegations involving misrepresentations in their purchases of certain properties from the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD), Mary Jane Stewart, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, announced today.  On December 30, 2019, relators William Worrall and…
    Press release
    March 22, 2021