BALTIMORE, Oct. 5 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Federal Bureau of Investigation Baltimore Field Office issued the following press release:

Four individuals have been charged in an eight-count federal indictment for their roles in a multistate bank-fraud and money-laundering scheme involving stolen and altered checks issued by a multinational corporation.

Cory L. Sims, Jr., of Bridgeport, Conn.; Dondre O. Daniels, of Bridgeport and Tampa, Fla.; Christian M. Hill, of Kansas City, Mo.; and Makhia L. Duncan, of Des Moines, Iowa, were charged in an indictment returned under seal by a federal grand jury in Kansas City. The indictment was unsealed following Hill's initial court appearance. Daniels and Duncan were subsequently taken into cu...