Twenty-Six Trinitarios Gang Members Charged with RICO Conspiracy Related to Five Murders in Massachusetts
Justice Department Announces Results of Operation Spring Cleaning
Union Leaders Convicted of Racketeering, Fraud, and Embezzlement of Union Dues
CEO of Iran Tech Company Arrested on Federal Charge of Supplying U.S. Equipment to Iran’s Nuclear and Military Establishment
Joint Law Enforcement Effort Disrupts Two Multi-State Drug Trafficking Operations; Nineteen Defendants Charged in Homeland Security Task Force Initiative
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Mar 27, 2013
PLANO, TXA 58-year-old Pasadena, Texas man has been found guilty of investment fraud charges in the Eastern District of Texas. A federal jury needed just six minutes to convict Gary Lynn McDuff of conspiring to defraud investors of over $11…
Mar 6, 2013
WASHINGTONA former health care clinic director and licensed therapist pleaded guilty today in connection with a health care fraud scheme involving defunct health provider Health Care Solutions Network Inc. (HCSN). Paul Thomas Layman, 66, of Miami, pleaded guilty before U.S.…
Feb 28, 2013
SANTA ANA, CAA Long Beach man was arrested yesterday and is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon on federal sex trafficking charges that allege he worked with a previously charged defendant to coerce women to work as prostitutes. Marquis Monte…
Feb 27, 2013
WASHINGTONA former Michigan resident was found guilty by a federal jury today in Miami of child sex tourism charges. Matthew Andrew Carter, aka William Charles Harcourt and Bill Carter, 67, formerly of Brighton, Michigan, was found guilty in U.S. District…
Feb 25, 2013
PHILADELPHIAMichael Wilkerson, 47, of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and Denise Haines, 43, of Birdsboro, Pennsylvania, were convicted of engaging in a scheme to defraud JP Morgan Chases predecessor, Chase Manhattan Bank, by fraudulently obtaining home loans valued at more than $6 million…
Feb 21, 2013
Plea is Part of the Investigation That Led to Conviction of Former District of Columbia Council Member Harry L. Thomas, Jr. WASHINGTON Millicent D. West, the former director and chief executive officer of a non-profit organization that promotes youth opportunities,…
Jan 24, 2013
by Capt. Agneta Murnan 438th Air Expeditionary Wing and NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan One of three new Cessna 208Bs taxies to its parking pad after landing at Shindand Air Base, Oct. 2011. As of Dec. 2012, the last of 26…
Jan 24, 2013
Manuel Ernesto Ortiz-Barraza, an independent financial consultant, was extradited to the United States today for his alleged role in a scheme to defraud the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) of over $2.5 million. Ortiz-Barraza, 56, was charged…
Jan 16, 2013
HAMMOND, INThe United States Attorneys Office returned the following indictments on January 16, 2013: Brealon B. Miller, Jr., 24, and David L. Hardin, Jr., 22, both of Gary, Indiana, were charged in an indictment with the robbery of BMO Bank…
Jan 16, 2013
BECKLEY, WVUpper Big Branch Mine (UBB) superintendent Gary May was sentenced to 21 months in prison in connection with a federal investigation at the former Massey Energy Companys UBB Mine. Gary May, 43, of Bloomingrose, West Virginia, previously pleaded guilty…
Jan 16, 2013
COLUMBUSGordon L. Yocom, 44, of Dublin, Ohio, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering for fraudulently obtaining a mortgage loan to finance the purchase of a real estate property in Powell, Ohio. Yocom agreed to forfeit $119,000, which represented…
Jan 16, 2013
Marissa Mark wanted someone dead, her ex-boyfriends new girlfriend, to be precise. And she found a way to have it done¦from her computer. In September 2006, the Pennsylvania resident and recent college graduate logged on to HitmanForHire.net, a site often…