Politics

Top Executives of Miami Beach Manufacturing Company Arrested and Charged in Multi-Million-Dollar Investmemt Scheme

Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael B. Steinbach, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announce that Claudio Eleazar Osorio, a/k/a “Claudio...

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FBI Releases 2011 Hate Crime Statistics

According to statistics released today 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...

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Las Vegas Playboy Bloods Member Pleads Guilty to Racketeering Charges

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...

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Loan Brokers Sentenced to Prison for a Bank Fraud Conspiracy with Losses to the SBA of More Than $13 Million

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,...

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Debt Collection Agency Executive Charged with Bribing Bank Officials

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...

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Florida CPA Sentenced for Role in Foreclosure Scheme

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...

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Waterbury Detective Charged with Obstructing IRS and Lying to Federal Agents

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...

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Former U.S. Army Reservist Pleads Guilty to Falsely Receiving More Than $400,000 in Unearned Pay and Benefits

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...

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