Source: United States Department of Justice News
A California man pleaded guilty today to sexual abuse and admitted to the abusive sexual contact of numerous women, as well as photographing and recording dozens of nude and partially nude women without their consent during his career as a U.S. government employee
Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI Crime News (b)
Director Christopher Wray has named Janeen DiGuiseppi as the special agent in charge of the Albany Field Office in New York. Most recently, Ms. DiGuiseppi was the deputy assistant director of the FBI’s Training Division.
Ms. DiGuiseppi joined the FBI as a special agent in 1999 and was first assigned to the Salt Lake City Field Office, where she worked violent crime, drug, and public corruption violations.
In 2008, Ms. DiGuiseppi was promoted to assistant legal attaché in Baghdad and supervised the FBI’s Major Crimes Task Force. She returned to Salt Lake City in 2009 and was assigned to the DEA’s Drug Diversion Task Force until she was promoted to supervisory special agent in 2010 as the FBI’s biometric lead in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Ms. DiGuiseppi was assigned to the Memphis Field Office in Tennessee in 2012, where she supervised the civil rights and public corruption programs and the Violent Crimes Against Children/Child Exploitation Task Force.
In 2014, she was promoted to assistant section chief of the Public Corruption and Civil Rights Section in the Criminal Investigative Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. She later served as the chief of staff to the division’s assistant director. In 2016, she was named assistant section chief of the Transnational Organized Crime – Eastern Hemisphere Section, where she managed domestic and international programs focused on organized crime and major theft.
Ms. DiGuiseppi was named assistant special agent in charge in the Denver Field Office in 2017, with oversight of the intelligence and surveillance programs, the Rocky Mountain Regional Computer Forensic Laboratory, and the Wyoming resident agencies.
In 2019, Ms. DiGuiseppi was selected as section chief of the FBI Training Division’s Curriculum Management Section, and promoted to deputy assistant director in 2020.
Ms. DiGuiseppi earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Central Florida, a master’s degree from Western New England College, and a master’s degree from Florida International University. Prior to joining the Bureau, Ms. DiGuiseppi served as an officer in the United States Air Force.
Source: United States Department of Justice News
A federal jury convicted a New Jersey man today of conspiring with individuals in Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia and New York in a “mortgage recovery” tax fraud scheme and for assisting in the filing of false returns, among other tax offenses.
Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI Crime News (b)
The FBI is looking for Josiah Alan Smith, 27, of Smith Lake, New Mexico, who is wanted on a federal murder charge.
Smith is accused of a fatal shooting on the Navajo Nation earlier this year.
No specific details of the crime can be provided at this time due to the ongoing investigation.
Smith’s physical description:
A federal arrest warrant was issued in the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, on June 11, 2021, after Smith was charged with murder and crimes committed in Indian Country.
The Navajo Nation Department of Public Safety is assisting with this investigation.
Anyone with information on Smith’s whereabouts is asked to immediately contact the FBI by calling 505-889-1300 or sending information online at tips.fbi.gov.
The public is asked not to approach Smith as he is considered armed and dangerous.
Source: United States Department of Justice News
Interface Rehab (Interface), headquartered and operating in Orange County, has agreed to pay $2 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by causing the submission of claims to Medicare for rehabilitation therapy services that were not reasonable or necessary.