Tag: Newark
Parmjit Parmar, Securities Fraud, New Jersey 2025
⏱ 2 min read Parmjit Parmar, the former CEO of a publicly traded healthcare services company, orchestrated a massive $212 million investment fraud scheme in New Jersey from May 2015 to September 2017. Along with his conspirators, Parmar tricked investors into believing the company was worth substantially more than its actual value. The scheme involved…
Dr. Shayasta S. Mufti, Unlawful Medical Billing, Delaware 2019
⏱ 2 min read Wilmington, DE – Between April 2019 and November 2019, Dr. Shayasta S. Mufti, a former physician in Newark, ordered medically unnecessary genetic tests for over 100 Medicare patients, often after brief or no consultations. These tests cost Medicare thousands of dollars per patient. There was no physician-patient relationship, no examinations, and…
Miguel Dario Bautista Jimenez, Passport Fraud, New Jersey 2026
⏱ 2 min read A brazen identity thief swindled his way to US citizenship and a passport, but his scheme came crashing down this week. Miguel Dario Bautista Jimenez, 41, of New Jersey, was charged with illegally obtaining US citizenship and a passport through a web of lies and deceit. Jimenez, a citizen of the…
Jayson Setera, Child Pornography Possession and Transportation, New Jersey 2024
⏱ 2 min read A 51-year-old Oregon man is going down for trafficking in some of the most heinous material imaginable. Jayson Setera was convicted of possessing and transporting child pornography after a multi-day trial in Newark federal court. It happened back on January 22, 2024, when Setera returned to Newark Liberty International Airport after…
Jane Batista, COVID-19 Relief Program Fraud, New Jersey 2024
⏱ 2 min read A 44-year-old Florida woman orchestrated a brazen COVID-19 relief program scam, swindling $465,489 from lenders. Jane Batista submitted fake Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan applications for herself, her husband, and two businesses, claiming fictional employees and revenue. From April 2020 to August 2021, Batista lied about everything from employee income to…
TD Bank, Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering, New Jersey 2025
⏱ 3 min read TD Bank coughed up a staggering $1.43 billion in fines and $328 million in criminal forfeiture for its role in the largest bank money laundering scandal in US history. The Newark-based financial giant pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering and Bank Secrecy Act program failures. According to the US…
Juan Carlos Ramirez, Cocaine Trafficking, Florida 2022
⏱ 2 min read A ruthless cocaine dealer, who had been deported from the US five times, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for peddling his deadly wares in Newark, Delaware. Adan Cuevas-Arteaga, 44, was caught with a stash of cocaine, digital scales, and $7,400 in cash after a search warrant was executed…
Louis V. Greco III, Tax Evasion, New Jersey 2018
⏱ 2 min read Louis V. Greco III, the 38-year-old owner of New Jersey-based emergency medical services company NJ Mobile Health Care LLC, has pleaded guilty to willfully evading taxes in a scheme that spanned four years and involved multiple companies. Greco, of Highland Mills, NY, admitted to causing his companies to fail to pay…
