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On December 11, 2012 in federal court in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Kristy Sanchez, 38, of Las Cruces, pled guilty to a criminal information charging her with embezzlement by a bank employee under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Ronald Phillips Baker, Sr., age 62, of Havre de Grace, Maryland,In last Wednesday to one year of home detention with electronic monitoring as part of five years’ probation for stealing aluminum from Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG) . Judge Quarles also ordered Baker to pay restitution of $25,732.38.

A federal indictment unsealed today in U.S. District Court charged nine defendants in Charlotte and elsewhere with insider trading and money laundering, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. The charges in the indictment arise from the Charlotte-based FBI investigation, Operation Insider Out, which began in early 2012 and identified targets involved in insider trading activities in the Charlotte area.

Partially resolving one of the largest investment fraud cases ever in federal court here, a defendant who owned hotel properties in Mexico pleaded guilty yesterday to securities fraud, admitting that he fraudulently obtained approximately $500 million from some 8,000 investors throughout in the United States. The defendant, Michael E. Kelly, was sentenced today to the maximum term of five years in prison, ensuring that final orders of restitution and forfeiture will be imposed despite Kelly’s ill health. Meanwhile, Kelly still faces additional charges carrying substantial additional periods of incarceration.

The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released a report analyzing the New York City Police Department’s stop-and-frisk data for January 2010 through June 2012. The report shows that the constitutional violations detailed in an earlier report covering 2004 through 2009 have continued unabated through the first half of this year. Both reports were prepared for CCR’s landmark class action lawsuit challenging the stop and frisk policy of the New York City Police Department (NYPD), Floyd, et al. v. City of New York, et al, a federal class action lawsuit filed against NYPD and the City of New York that challenges the NYPD's practices of racial profiling and unconstitutional stop-and frisks.

Two Alabama real estate investors and their company pleaded guilty Wednesday for their roles in conspiracies to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions in southern Alabama, the Department of Justice announced.

Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Michael B. Steinbach, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Nancy Preston, 55, who worked at Clyde’s Restaurant Group from 1982 to 2011, was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison for her embezzlement of approximately $647,547, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen, Jr. and Debra Evans Smith, Acting Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.

A former United States Congressman has been sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison in a tax fraud case related to his failure to disclose to the IRS nearly $500,000 of investor funds he received from a $10 million investment fraud scheme.

According to statistics released on Monday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 6,222 criminal incidents involving 7,254 offenses were reported in 2011 as a result of bias toward a particular race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity/national origin, or physical or mental disability.