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A German man, wanted by law enforcement authorities in Germany for using his Florida financial firm to defraud numerous investors of more than $100 million in a pyramid scheme, was arrested last night by special agents and officers of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

A bail bondsman in Portsmouth, Va., pleaded guilty today in the Eastern District of Virginia for bribing public officials in exchange for receiving favorable treatment, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride for the Eastern District of Virginia announced today.

William J. Korn, 53, a former intelligence research specialist with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was sentenced today to two years of probation, including 120 days in a halfway house, for taking part in a fraud scheme in which he obtained more than $50,000 in government money.

The former chief financial officer for McGinn, Smith, & Co. Inc., Brian Shea, 53, of Niskayuna, New York, pled guilty today before United States District Court Judge David N. Hurd to one count of corruptly interfering with the administration of the internal revenue laws announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian, Acting Special Agent in Charge Toni Weirauch of the New York Office of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Service, and Special Agent in Charge Clifford C. Holly of the Albany Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

John Kinnucan, the president of Broadband Research LLC, an investment research firm located in Portland, Oregon, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy and securities fraud charges in connection with his participation in an insider trading scheme in which Kinnucan obtained material, non-public information (inside information) about publicly traded companies and sold that information to Broadband’s clients, including hedge funds and money managers (BBR clients), announced Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Kinnucan pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Deborah A. Batts

Larry G. Corbett, 41, a Northern Virginia businessman, pled guilty today to a federal bribery charge for his role in a scheme involving bribery, kickbacks, and millions of dollars in government contracts that were awarded through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Officer Paulo Morales, 47, of Miami, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Miami to three civil rights offenses for sexually groping three women in his custody, the Justice Department announced today.

Earlier today, former Queens County assemblyman Jimmy Meng was arrested on a federal wire fraud charge for soliciting $80,000 in cash from a state court defendant and falsely claiming that he would use the money to bribe prosecutors in the New York County District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan to obtain a reduced sentence.

William B. Clayton, a residential builder formerly of Corolla, N.C., was arrested yesterday on charges of obstructing the tax laws and converting government property, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Clayton had his initial appearance today before U.S. Magistrate Judge William A. Webb in the Eastern District of North Carolina.

Mark Chandler Goodnow, age 55, of Pasadena, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud in connection with embezzling more than $885,000 from a corporation he controlled.