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Kevin J. Guillot, age 43, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana; and Daniel G. Spears, a resident of Belle Chasse, Louisiana, age 40, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Sarah S. Vance to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Jim Letten. Anthony Venezia, age 34, a resident of Westwego, Louisiana, also pled guilty to one count of misprision of a felony.

TUNIS Former Tunisian President Zine El Abedine Ben Ali, who has been charged in absentia with ordering the killings of anti-government demonstrators and was forced to quit office, could be given the death sentence in a court in his country.

The United States has threatened to cut aid to Islamabad following the sentencing of a Pakistani surgeon who was awarded 33 years in jail for helping the CIA track Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

A Chinese national in Massachusetts on business was arrested for illegally supplying U.S. origin parts to end-users in China in violation of U.S. export laws.

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; and Janice K. Fedarcyk, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), announced that Robert Kwok and Reema Shah pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud in connection with an insider trading scheme in which Kwok, an executive with Yahoo!, provided material, non-public information to Shah, a portfolio manager at an asset management firm that managed billions of dollars in mutual funds and a hedge fund, concerning Yahoo!’s quarterly earnings and potential business transactions. Shah, who then executed trades in Yahoo!, also pled guilty to one count of securities fraud.

Thomas W. Gore, the former assistant treasurer for a District of Columbia mayoral campaign, pled guilty today to obstruction of justice and other charges stemming from his activities involving the 2010 election, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen, Jr. and James W. McJunkin, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.

A former city clerk of the city of Thayer in Neosho County, Kansas has pleaded guilty to embezzling $120,000, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.

Martin Weisberg, a former corporate partner in the New York office of an international law firm, pleaded guilty today to one charge of money laundering and one charge of conspiracy to commit securities fraud.

The Department of Justice announced that North Carolina Department of Correction’s Division of Community Corrections Probation Officer Willie James Steele, Jr., 47, was indicted yesterday on civil rights charges for violating the constitutional rights of a female probationer that he was supervising by coercing her into sexual acts on two separate occasions. Steele was indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of deprivation of rights under color of law and one count of using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.

A long-time Seattle financial advisor was indicted today by a federal grand jury with 23 criminal counts, including wire fraud, money laundering and investment advisor fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan. Mark F. Spangler, 57, of Seattle is accused of diverting investor money from accounts he managed to risky start-up ventures in which he or his investment firm had an ownership interest. Spangler allegedly diverted more than $46 million to two companies, one of which is now shut down after failing to generate any positive revenue. Those who invested in the funds managed by Spangler, as part of The Spangler Group Inc.(TSG), were not told that their money was being invested in risky start-up companies. Spangler and several of his companies went into receivership last year. Today, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil suit against Spangler as well. Spangler is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in Seattle on May 18, 2012 at 2:30.