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A Las Vegas man pleaded guilty today in federal court to conspiring to conduct a racketeering enterprise as a member of the Playboy Bloods criminal street gang, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden of the District of Nevada.

U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced two loan brokers, Joo Hyuk “John” Lee, age 39, of Richmond, Virginia; and Sang Hyun Kim, age 35, of Fairfax, Virginia, to three years in prison, each followed by five years of supervised release, respectively, for conspiracy to commit bank fraud.

David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, on Friday announced that Patrick Pinto, 44, of Bohemia, New York, was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging him with conspiracy to commit bank bribery while he was an executive of Oxford Collection Agency. Pinto appeared on Friday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Holly B. Fitzsimmons in Bridgeport and was released on a $50,000 bond.

Barrington Coombs, 58, of Weston, Florida, was sentenced on Friday to serve a year and a day in prison for his role in a foreclosure rescue scheme that victimized desperate homeowners on the brink of losing their homes, the Justice Department announced. Coombs was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra in the Southern District of Florida.

David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, on Friday announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Hartford has returned an indictment charging Robert Liquindoli, 41, of Waterbury, with one count of obstruction of the administration of the Internal Revenue laws and three counts of making false statements to federal law enforcement agents.

John Amos, 51, and a resident of Newport, Oregon, is a former reservist in the United States Army. Amos pleaded guilty on Thursday to misprision of a felony for failing to notify the U.S. Army that he was being paid even though he was not actively serving.

Federal prosecutors Thursday charged an employee of the Birmingham-based Adams Produce Company with conspiracy to defraud the federal government of several hundred thousand dollars through a scheme to create false invoices and purchase orders, announced Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr.

A federal grand jury in Trenton Thursday returned an eight-count indictment charging Trenton Mayor Tony F. Mack; his brother, Ralphiel Mack; and Mayor Mack’s close associate, Joseph A. “JoJo” Giorgianni, with extortion, bribery, and mail and wire fraud U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

The presidents of two supermarkets in Lexington admitted they conspired to smuggle unapproved prescription drugs into their stores to sell them.

A federal jury in Albany, Georgia, convicted Sumter County, Georgia County Commissioner Al J. Hurley late Monday on corruption charges stemming from his acceptance of illicit payments in exchange for his official efforts to secure government contracts for a private contractor, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Middle District of Georgia U.S. Attorney Michael J. Moore announced.