Politics

Supervisory Officials at New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development Plead Guilty to Bribery Charges

Two former supervisors at the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) pleaded guilty today to bribery charges in connection with a widespread scheme to bribe high-ranking HPD officials in return for lucrative...

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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Files Additional Charges Against Former Employees of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Mary Galligan, the Acting Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); Toni Weirauch, the Acting Special Agent...

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Former Police Officer Pleads Guilty to Mail Fraud

U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that former Buffalo Police Office Johnnie Fritz, 49, of Buffalo, New York, pleaded guilty to mail fraud before Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. The charge carries a maximum sentence of...

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Former Mayor of Barceloneta Sentenced to 120 Months in Prison

This Monday, Sol Luis Fontanes-Olivo, former mayor of the municipality of Barceloneta, Puerto Rico, was sentenced to 120 months (10 years) in prison, a $150,000 fine, forfeiture of $60,000, and three years of supervised release, by United States...

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Businessman Pleads Guilty to Bribing Gwinnett County Commissioner

Mark Gary, 39, of Duluth,pleaded guilty on this monday in federal district court to a charge of bribing a Gwinnett County Commissioner in 2009 to secure approval of a proposed waste transfer station in which he held a personal stake.

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Cranston Businessman Pleads Guilty to Federal Tax Charges

John J. McCauley, Jr., 54, of Cranston, the owner and co-operator of McCauley and L’Europa Public Adjusters LLC and PIA Restoration LLC, pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence on last friday to conspiracy to defraud the United States and filing...

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Former Hedge Fund Research Analyst Pleads Guilty in New York Federal Court to Insider Trading Charges

Jon Horvath, 42, of San Francisco, a former research analyst at a hedge fund in New York, on last friday pleaded guilty in New York City federal court to charges arising from his involvement in a $61.8 million insider trading scheme, announced Preet...

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Smithsonian Parking Lot Attendant Pleads Guilty to Stealing at Least $400,000 in Parking Fees from Aircraft Museum

Meseret Terefe, 36, of Silver Spring, Maryland, pled guilty today to stealing at least $400,000 of visitor parking fees belonging to the Smithsonian Institution’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia.

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