Politics

Bank Teller Pleads Guilty to Embezzling Money from Bank

Earlier in federal court, a 64-year-old woman from the southeastern Minnesota community of Wykoff pleaded guilty to embezzling approximately $35,520 from the Security State Bank where she was employed as the head teller. Cheryl Lynn Holzer pleaded...

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Former Employee of Federal Court Contractor Sentenced for Bribery and Perjury

Chief U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Lauren Jeannette Diggs, age 51, of Rockville, to 30 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for a bribery conspiracy and making false statements to the grand jury in...

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Former Corporate Officers of China-Based Oil and Gas Company Charged with Fraud and False Statements
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Former Michigan Supreme Court Justice Diane Marie Hathaway Sentenced on Bank Fraud Charge

Diane M. Hathaway, a former Michigan Supreme Court Justice, was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison after having pleaded guilty in January to committing bank fraud in connection with a property in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, United...

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Wal-Mart Pleads Guilty To Federal Environmental Crimes And Civil Violations And Will Pay More Than $81 Million / Retailer admits violating criminal and civil laws designed to protect water quality and to ensure proper handling of hazardous wastes and pest

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. pleaded guilty in cases filed by federal prosecutors in Los Angeles and San Francisco to six counts of violating the Clean Water Act by illegally handling and disposing of hazardous materials at its retail stores across the United...

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One of the World’s Largest Digital Currency Companies and Seven of Its Principals and Employees Charged in Manhattan Federal Court with Running Alleged $6 Billion Money Laundering Scheme. (PART II)

According to the allegations in the indictment, the civil forfeiture complaint, and other documents filed in federal court

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One of the World’s Largest Digital Currency Companies and Seven of Its Principals and Employees Charged in Manhattan Federal Court with Running Alleged $6 Billion Money Laundering Scheme. (PART I)

James T. Hayes Jr., Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), announced the unsealing of an indictment charging Liberty Reserve, a company that...

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Former Corporate Officers of China-Based Oil and Gas Company Charged with Fraud and False Statements

The former president and CEO, and the former vice president of corporate finance of China North East Petroleum Holdings Limited (CNEP), an oil and gas company whose stock is traded in the United States, have been charged with defrauding investors in...

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