New York man sentenced to nearly 8 years for distributing crack cocaine, money laundering and possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking

Date: August 29, 2024

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Albany, NY - Angelo Dalmau, of Amsterdam, New York, was sentenced today to 93 months in prison, to be followed by a 3-year term of supervised release, for drug, money laundering, and firearm offenses.

United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman; Frank A. Tarentino III, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), New York Division; and Thomas Fattorusso, Executive Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation (CI) New York Field Office, made the announcement.

As part of his guilty plea, Dalmau admitted to selling cocaine base (also known as crack cocaine) to another person on five occasions between September 2021 and March 2022; the total amount sold was approximately 250 grams. Dalmau further admitted to delivering $149,500 in drug money to another individual in January 2022 for the purpose of laundering those funds. When investigators searched Dalmau's residence pursuant to a warrant on April 14, 2022, they recovered approximately 100 grams of crack cocaine, drug paraphernalia, $191,843 in cash, and a pistol loaded with ammunition. Dalmau was arrested on that date has remained in custody since that time.

CI, DEA and Amsterdam Police Department investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Dustin Segovia and former Assistant U.S. Attorney Emmet O'Hanlon prosecuted the case.

CI is the criminal investigative arm of the IRS, responsible for conducting financial crime investigations, including tax fraud, narcotics trafficking, money-laundering, public corruption, healthcare fraud, identity theft and more. CI special agents are the only federal law enforcement agents with investigative jurisdiction over violations of the Internal Revenue Code, obtaining a more than a 90 percent federal conviction rate. The agency has 20 field offices located across the U.S. and 12 attaché posts abroad.