Netherlands National Tactical Command Visit to HQ Army CID
March 14, 2025 - The Commander of the Netherlands Royal Marechausee (KMar) National Tactics Command, Brigadier General Johannes Pieters, visited the headquarters of the Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division (DACID) for a capabilities briefing and interoperability and collaboration discussion on March 4, 2025.
Dragon Hill Lodge employees found guilty of fraud
March 7, 2025 - The Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division’s Far East Field Office recently conducted a joint investigation with the FBI in which a rooms manager and security director were found guilty of defrauding the U.S. Government over a span of 12 months.
USAG Rheinland-Pfalz unites mission partners at operations conference
Feb. 24, 2025 - U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz hosted an operations conference Feb. 13 at the Kazabra Club on Vogelweh, which brought tenant units and mission partners together to improve collaboration, synchronize operations and streamline planning for the remainder of the fiscal year.
Army CID Crime Lab Spotlights Expansive Capabilities for Military Judges
Feb. 19, 2025 - The Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) recently provided an expansive capabilities brief and specialized courtroom training for more than 100 military judges. These discussions focused on the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory’s (USACIL) full spectrum of forensic services.
Violations of the False Claims Act as the Result of Fraudulent Payment Protection Program Loans Settled in United States District Court
Feb. 17, 2025 - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that the United States has obtained consent or default judgments in five civil fraud lawsuits alleging the individuals obtained loans for fictitious companies or fictitious self-employment under the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”). The defendants named in the lawsuits are Antoinette Kennedy, Andre Lane, Dieudonne Nlend, Tracey Thompson and Rashinda Harris. These defendants obtained forgiveness of their loans in violation of the False Claims Act. This litigation resulted in judgments in favor of the United States in the total amount of $138,413.72.
Forensic Exploitation Directorate Showcases Critical Capabilities to 412th TEC Leadership
Feb. 10, 2025 - On January 24, the Forensic Exploitation Directorate of the Army Criminal Investigation Division hosted a capabilities tour for senior leaders of the 412th Theater Engineer Command, including Maj. Gen. Matthew Warne, the commanding general of the 412th Theater Engineer Command, and Command Sgt. Maj. Ryan Bodmer, the command’s senior enlisted advisor.
Former soldier sentenced for sexually abusing a child at JBLM
Feb. 10, 2025 - A former soldier who served at Joint Base Lewis-McChord was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison for abusive sexual contact with a child who he had locked in a closet in 2012 at the Army-Air Force base in Washington.
U.S. Army Major Sentenced to 70 Months for Smuggling Firearms to Ghana
Feb. 5, 2025 - Kojo Owuso Dartey, age 42, of Fort Liberty, was sentenced to 70 months in prison and three years of supervised release for false statements made to an agency of the United States, false declarations before the court, conspiracy, dealing in firearms without a license, delivering firearms without notice to the carrier, smuggling goods from the United States, and illegally exporting firearms without a license.
Ft. Campbell Soldier Sentenced to 87 Months in Federal Prison on Child Sexual Abuse Charges
Feb. 4, 2025 - Donald Lee Collins, 41, of Clarksville, Tennessee, was sentenced yesterday to 87 months in federal prison after having pled guilty to two counts of sexual abuse of a minor and one count of attempted transfer of obscene material to an individual under the age of sixteen, announced Robert E. McGuire, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
Cracked and Nulled Marketplaces Disrupted in International Cyber Operation
Jan. 30, 2025 - The Justice Department today announced its participation in a multinational operation involving actions in the United States, Romania, Australia, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and Greece to disrupt and take down the infrastructure of the online cybercrime marketplaces known as Cracked and Nulled.
Cases include indictment of man accused in Fort Eisenhower murder
Jan. 17, 2025 - Newly returned indictments in the Southern District of Georgia include charges alleging felons illegally possessed firearms, while additional defendants have been sentenced to federal prison or await further proceedings after pleading guilty to federal gun charges
Government Contractor Agrees to Pay $1M to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations for Submitting Fraudulent Bids on Prime Vendor Contracts
Jan. 3, 2025 - Johnny Buscema Jr. of New Port Richey, Florida, and his companies, S.A.F.E. Structure Designs, based in Las Vegas, and U.S.A. Manufacturing, based in New Port Richey, have agreed to pay $1,000,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by causing a prime vendor for the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) to submit fraudulent contract bids to DLA that resulted in Department of Defense (DoD) customers being overcharged for goods and related services purchased under those contracts.
New USAO Task Force to Target Government Contract Fraud
Jan. 3, 2025 - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio is spearheading a new, interagency Supply Chain Oversight and Procurement Enforcement (SCOPE) Task Force, created in 2024, to ensure supply chain integrity and prevent procurement fraud.
CID Teams Up with Law Enforcement Partners for Army-Navy Game
Dec. 17, 2024 - Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division provided personnel and resources as part of a collaborative multi-agency law enforcement partnership effort for the 125th Army-Navy game taking place at Northwest Field in the Washington, DC area.
Founder of Iranian Company Arrested for Providing Material Support to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and for Scheme to Procure Sensitive U.S. Technology for Use in IRGC Military Drones, One of Which Killed Three U.S. Servicemembers
Dec. 16, 2024 - Mahdi Mohammad Sadeghi, 42, a dual U.S.-Iranian national of Natick, Massachusetts, and Mohammad Abedininajafabadi, also known as Mohammad Abedini (Abedini), 38, of Tehran, Iran, have been charged with conspiring to export sophisticated electronic components from the United States to Iran in violation of U.S. export control and sanctions laws. Abedini is also charged with providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization (FTO), that resulted in the deaths of three U.S. service members who were killed by a one-way attack Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), also known as a drone, on a military base in Jordan.
Charges Filed in the Armed Robbery of a Postal Maintenance Worker and Multiple High-Volume Thefts of U.S. Mail from Multi-Family Luxury Residences in D.C., Virginia, and Maryland
Dec. 4, 2024 - Ibrahim Emmanuel De La Cruz, 25, of Washington D.C., was extradited to face charges filed by criminal complaint with the alleged high-volume thefts of U.S. Mail in Washington D.C., Arlington Va., and Bowie, Maryland, as well as an armed robbery of a Postal maintenance worker, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves, Inspector in Charge Damon E. Wood of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and Special Agent-in-Charge Jacob Cameron, Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division’s Washington Field Office.
Soldier convicted of sexual assault, sentenced to prison
Nov. 26, 2024 - A military judge sentenced Pfc. Shreyan Karki, 20, to four years and two months of confinement after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a fellow Soldier. The sentence comes immediately following his conviction by a military jury on Nov. 22 in Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Dell and Iron Bow Agree to Pay $4.3M to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Relating to Submitting Non-Competitive Bids to the Army
Nov. 19, 2024 - Dell Technologies Inc. and Dell Federal Systems L.P. (collectively Dell), located in Austin, Texas, have agreed to pay $2,300,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting and causing the submission of non-competitive bids to the Army and thereby overcharging the Army under the Army Desktop and Mobile Computing 3 (ADMC-3) contract. Iron Bow Technologies LLC (Iron Bow), located in Herndon, Virginia, also agreed to pay $2,051,000 for its role in the scheme.
Army CID Trains Polish State Cyber Police in Łodz Poland
Nov. 15, 2024 - Personnel from the Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division, Cyber Field Office-International, and the Digital Forensic Examination Cell-Europe led training sessions with the Polish State Cyber Police, Central Office for Combatting Cybercrime (CBZC) November 4-8, 2024.
Soldier encourages friend to commit sexual assault, both sentenced to prison
Oct. 30, 2024 - A Soldier who persuaded his friend to sexually assault another Soldier in May of 2022 were convicted and sentenced to prison.
While stationed at Camp Humphreys, Pfc. Quentin D. Fontenot, 22, approached his friend and co-worker Pfc. Ethan K. Fintroy, also 22, and encouraged him to sexually assault Fontenot’s then girlfriend.
U.S. Joins International Action Against RedLine and META Infostealers
Oct. 29, 2024 - The Department of Justice joined the Netherlands, Belgium, Eurojust and other partners in announcing an international disruption effort against the current version of RedLine Infostealer, one of the most prevalent infostealers in the world that has targeted millions of victim computers, and the closely-related META Infostealer.
Raytheon Company to Pay Over $950M in Connection with Defective Pricing, Foreign Bribery, and Export Control Schemes
Oct. 16, 2024 - Raytheon Company (Raytheon) — a subsidiary of Arlington, Virginia-based defense contractor RTX (formerly known as Raytheon Technologies Corporation) — will pay over $950 million to resolve the Justice Department’s investigations into: (i) a major government fraud scheme involving defective pricing on certain government contracts and (ii) violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and its implementing regulations, the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).
Ukrainian National Pleads Guilty to “Raccoon Infostealer” Cybercrime
Oct. 7, 2024 - A Ukrainian national pleaded guilty in federal court in Austin today to one count of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion.
According to court documents, Mark Sokolovsky, 28, conspired to operate the Raccoon Infostealer as a malware-as-a-service or “MaaS.”