On November 18, 2025, Jamian Joshaun Butler, 45, of Jacksonville, Florida was arrested without incident by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Marshals Service. Butler was 1 of 12 subjects indicted in January 2025 when a federal grand jury in Columbia, South Carolina returned a 12-count indictment alleging conspiracy, wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering for defrauding multiple victims in a nationwide scheme.
USAID Office of the Inspector General (OIG) initiated an investigation into allegations that a USAID prime awardee had received fraudulent emails requesting a funds transfer to a new bank from a purported sub recipient grantee based in India, amounting to what is known as a Business Email Compromise (BEC).