Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies

(Source: Brooklyn District Attorney's Office) Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson, together with New York City Department of Investigation Commissioner Mark G. Peters, today announced in a 40-count indictment that a contractor, his subcontractor and a foreman have been variously charged with Read More

(Source: NY Daily News) An experienced contractor and two other businessmen took advantage of their non-English speaking employees by undercutting their wages and pocketing more than $1 million from the city, prosecutors said. Mehdi Dayan, 67, allegedly underpaid 27 employees who worked on an $8 Read More

(Source: USAO, MA) BOSTON – Lucy Girard, 78, of Townsend, Mass., pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston to stealing over $200,000 in Social Security and federal housing benefits. In February 2016, Girard was charged in a felony information.  U.S. District Court Senior Judge Rya Read More

  Testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies. Topic: "HUD Office of Inspector General Fiscal Year 2017 Budget Request and HUD’s Top Management and Performance Challenges". You may Read More

(Source: rep-am.com) WATERBURY — The Waterbury Housing Authority's first large-scale attempt to build new housing in two decades has begun with a major disappointment involving the risk of losing $350,000. The authority paid that amount to a Pennsylvania builder who has so far failed to deliver on Read More

(Source: nola.com) Big Freedia, the internationally famous New Orleans bounce music artist, has been charged with a felony count of theft of federal funds. Freedia, identified in court documents by her legal name of Freddie Ross, Jr., is accused of stealing more than $1,000 from the Department of Read More

(Source: USAO, LA) U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that FREDDIE ROSS, JR., age 37, of New Orleans, who performs under the stage name BIG FREEDIA, was charged in a one-count Bill of Information with theft of government funds. According to the Bill of Information, between about 2010 and Read More

(Source: USAO, NY) ALBANY, NEW YORK – Ronald Barney, age 66, of Orange, California, pleaded guilty yesterday to a misdemeanor charge of performing lead-based paint testing inspections and risk assessments without a certification from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The announcement was Read More

(Source: USAO, MD) Baltimore, Maryland – U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Alberic Okou Agodio, age 31, of Bethesda, Maryland, today to 61 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft, arising from a mortgage Read More

(Source: USAO, CT) Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANDREW ROSS, 58, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 12 months and one day of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, Read More

(Source: OAG, NJ) TRENTON – Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman announced that five additional individuals were charged criminally today with filing fraudulent applications for federal relief funds related to Superstorm Sandy. Since March 2014, the Attorney General’s Office has filed criminal Read More

(Source: USAO, CT)Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SERJ GEUTSSOYAN, also known as “Anthony Kirk,” 33, of Santa Ana, Calif., pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to conspiring to defraud homeowners Read More

(Source: presstelegram.com) A Lakewood woman has been found guilty of real estate fraud, causing $662,000 in losses to lenders. Felicia Muhammad, 45, was convicted on five felony counts for lying to banks that funded mortgages for three properties that later went into default, the U.S. Attorney’s Read More

(Source: USAO, CT) Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in Bridgeport has returned an indictment charging TIMOTHY W. BURKE, also known as “Bill Burke,” “William Burke,” “Kerry Saunders,” “Pat Riley,” “Jim Caldwell,” “Jim Read More

(Source: local10.com) Local 10 investigation shows over-income families living in public housing - Click to watch video

(Source: USAO, LA) BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced the convictions of RHODA RENAE ROBERTSON, age 47, and LOUELLA ROBERTSON, age 68, both of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who pled guilty before U.S. District Judges Shelley Dick and John deGravelles, respectively, to theft of Read More

(Source: The Southern Illinoisan News) CAIRO — The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Monday morning that it is immediately taking possession of the Alexander County Housing Authority. HUD said in a statement released to the media around 10 a.m. that it is taking this Read More

(Source: nj.com) TRENTON — It may not be the best idea to sell low-grade or "reject" industrial products to the New York Department of Corrections, but that's what a part-owner of a Linden industrial and commercial supplies company admitted in federal court Thursday. Robert R. Dattilo, 61, pleaded Read More

(Source: USAO, NJ) TRENTON, N.J. –A part owner of Bayway Lumber, a Linden, New Jersey, company that sold commercial and industrial products to numerous public and private entities, today admitted his role in a scheme to defraud customers out of $708,386, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Read More