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Crypto & § 1960 Cases in the Southern District of Texas
Every federal cryptocurrency and unlicensed-money-transmission prosecution tracked in the Southern District of Texas — the federal court serving Houston, Corpus Christi, and the Gulf Coast. 49 cases since 2013, with $63.5M in announced forfeitures, each sourced to its original DOJ release.
Nigerian national admits to role in email scam
May 12, 2026A 34-year-old foreign national who resided in Houston has pleaded guilty to illegal money transmission
A 33-year-old Houston man has been sentenced for his role in the distribution of multiple narcotics
A 26-year-old man who was in the United States on a Green Card has been sentenced for laundering fraud proceeds through an unlicensed money transmitting business
A man and woman have been ordered to federal prison for their respective roles in an identity theft and business email compromise (BEC) scam
A total of $148,149,674.47 has been collected in combined criminal, civil and asset forfeiture actions in calendar year 2025
Forfeiture: $45.6M · Case detail
The United States announced today that yesterday evening it took into custody 37 fugitives from Mexico facing a range of federal criminal charges around the country, including charges relating to narcoterrorism, providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization, firearms trafficking, human smuggling, money laundering, and various drug trafficking offenses, including conspiracy to traffic methamphetamine, fentanyl, and cocaine.
Deer Park resident sentenced for running unlicensed financial scheme involving $2.3 million check
Nov 12, 2025A 66-year-old man has been ordered to federal prison for operating an illegal money transmitting business
A 45-year-old Houston man ordered to federal prison for running a fraudulent investment scheme
A 56-year-old Iraqi citizen who resided in Richmond has been sentenced following his conviction of unlicensed money remitting
Forfeiture: $282K · Case detail
A Houston man and woman have pleaded guilty to their respective roles in an identity theft and business email compromise scam (BEC)
The U.S. Trustee Program (USTP) obtained a judgment denying a bankruptcy discharge of more than $12.5 million to a Texas man who concealed assets and lied in his bankruptcy case to evade his creditors, including investors in his cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme.
A 45-year-old Houston man has admitted to running a fraudulent investment scheme
A San Fernando, California, man has been ordered to federal prison for operating an illegal money transmitting business
The operators of a durable medical equipment (DME) company have pleaded guilty to defrauding Medicare
A 49-year-old naturalized citizen from Arlington has been ordered to prison for unlicensed money transmitting and money laundering
Forfeiture: $581K · Case detail
A California man has admitted to operating an illegal money transmitting business
A Houston resident and his naturalized wife from Vietnam have received prison sentences for unlicensed money transmitting and money laundering
Forfeiture: $486K · Case detail
A 32-year-old Edcouch resident has been sentenced for receiving child pornography
A federal jury has returned a guilty verdict against an Iraqi citizen who resided in Richmond for operating a money transmitting business without a license
Two Corpus Christi brothers have been ordered to federal prison for manufacturing and distributing tens of thousands of fentanyl-laced pills disguised as legitimate pharmaceutical-grade pain medications
A 37-year-old man has been sentenced for aggravated identity theft in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain and launder more than $500,000
A 37-year-old Sugarland resident has pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain and launder more than $500,000
A 13-count indictment was unsealed today charging two pharmacists and a physician for their roles in a multimillion-dollar health care fraud, kickback, and money laundering scheme.
A 13-count indictment was unsealed today charging two pharmacists and a physician for their roles in a multimillion-dollar health care fraud, kickback and money laundering scheme.
Harlingen business operators charged in multi-million dollar power wheelchair fraud scheme
Aug 30, 2023The operators of a durable medical equipment company have been charged with defrauding Medicare
A 39-year-old man who holds citizenship in the United States and Ghana has been sent to prison for operating an illegal money transmitting business
A 39-year-old man who holds citizenship in the United States and Ghana has pleaded guilty to operating an illegal money transmitting business
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michael J.
A 36-year-old Sugar Land resident has been taken into custody on charges he fraudulently obtained and laundered more than $500,000
Darknet drug distributor sent to prison
Sep 23, 2022A 42-year-old man residing in Houston has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of conspiracy to distribute cocaine as a Darknet vendor
A 49-year-old out-of-state man has pleaded guilty to running an unlicensed money transmitting business
24-month sentence followed by one year of supervised release and ordered to pay $31,409.37 restitution
A fifth individual has surrendered to authorities in relation to a multi-year, multi-million dollar money laundering conspiracy
Fugitive narcotics trafficker apprehended
Apr 22, 2021A 33-year-old Brownsville resident has been taken into custody after being on the run from law enforcement for the past year
Texas Man Charged with COVID Relief Fraud
Jul 14, 2020A Texas man has been taken into custody on allegations he fraudulently obtained more than $1.1 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick for the Southern District of Texas.
A local man has been taken into custody on allegations he fraudulently obtained more than $1.1 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans.
The five leaders and eight other co-conspirators have been sentenced for their roles in one of the largest synthetic cannabinoids distribution networks in the United States
Former Employee Sentenced for Wire Fraud
Aug 16, 201827 months in federal prison, $552,651.00 in restitution, and three years of supervised release
More Than $13 Million Forfeited Against Multiple Individuals in Car Nationalization Business
May 2, 2018Seven people have been ordered to forfeit more than $13 million following their convictions related to a car nationalization business
Forfeiture: $12.6M · Case detail
Former Employee Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud
Apr 16, 2018A 28-year-old former employee of BP America Inc. has admitted he attempted to extort money from the company
A 37-year-old resident of Sugar Land has entered a guilty plea to aiding and abetting an unlicensed money transmitting business
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – An indictment has been officially unsealed charging Eugenio Hernandez Flores, the former governor of Tamaulipas, Mexico, with conspiring to launder monetary instruments and aiding and abetting the operation of an unlicensed money transmitting business, ann
Forfeiture: $2M · Case detail
Sentenced to 14 years (168 months) in federal prison and ordered to pay a $1,893,170 money judgment, with expected deportation proceedings after release.
BROWNSVILLE, Texas – Oscar J.
Cartel Money Laundering Cell Arrested
Oct 28, 2013BROWNSVILLE, Texas – Law enforcement officials have arrested a total of nine individuals alleging they violated the laws of the United States by moving money undetected through the United States banking system from Florida to Texas into Mexico, announced United States Attorney Ke
Forfeiture: $1.9M · Case detail
One of the leaders of a criminal conspiracy that laundered more than $20 million through “shell” business bank accounts was sentenced today to 151 months in prison.
Morales sentenced to 188 months in prison; Foster received 121 months; Smith received 30 months; Combs received 24 months; Whitehurst to be sentenced on August 26.
HOUSTON – One of the leaders of an organization that laundered more than $20 million through “shell” business bank accounts has just entered a guilty plea in federal court in Houston, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today along with Assistant Attorney General La
One of the leaders of an organization that laundered more than $20 million through “shell” business bank accounts pleaded guilty today in federal court in Houston.