wire fraud

ICE sting operation in Nebraska and Minnesota targeted businesses who knowingly hired, and mistreated, immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

SEATTLE (AP) — Federal prosecutors have charged the former head of a Bellevue wealth management firm accused of running a Ponzi scheme with wire fraud and making false statements to the United States. Seattlepi.com reports charges against Summit Asset Strategies CEO Chris Young Yoo were unsealed Monday...

SEATTLE (AP) — A Bellevue developer suspected of bilking more than 250 Chinese investors out of millions of dollars on two real estate projects is facing federal criminal charges. Seattlepi.com reports that Lobsang Dargey was charged Tuesday with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and scheming to conceal information from the U...

TACOMA (AP) — A Tacoma man charged with embezzling $2.3 million from his freight company employer has been sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison. The News Tribune reports that 37-year-old Toni Andersson was sentenced Monday after being convicted of wire fraud in U...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Federal authorities have arrested a Washington state man suspected of defrauding Alaskans by promising to share a pharmaceutical settlement if they helped pay his medical expenses. Federal prosecutors in Anchorage say 55-year-old Floyd Mann, Jr...