Federal bank fraud carries up to 30 years in prison per count and fines of up to $1 million. In the Southern District of Texas, these cases are prosecuted aggressively, and the government typically begins building its evidentiary record long …

A federal gun charge can carry many times the prison time that the same conduct would carry in state court. Under the Federal  Armed Career Criminal Act, the average sentence for a felon-in-possession conviction climbs from 67 months to 199 …

Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of Texas are charging money mules under wire fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy statutes, even when the defendant had no knowledge of the underlying scheme.

A money mule is someone who transfers illegally obtained …