Politics

California Resident Indicted for Impeding the Internal Revenue Laws and Filing False Tax Returns that Did Not Report Secret German and Israeli Accounts

A Beverly Hills, California resident was indicted by a federal grand jury in the Central District of California for corruptly endeavoring to impede the internal revenue laws, filing false tax returns, filing false reports regarding his offshore bank...

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Telecom Executive Pleads Guilty to FCPA Charge in Connection With Haitian Bribery Scheme

The former general manager of a Miami-based telecommunications company pleaded guilty on July 19th, for his role in a scheme to pay $3 million in bribes to various Haitian officials to secure a lucrative contract with Telecommunications D’Haiti (Haiti...

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Former Credit Suisse Banker Pleads Guilty to Conspiring with U.S. Taxpayers and Other Swiss Bankers to Defraud the United States

A citizen and resident of Switzerland pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States in connection with her work as the head of a team of bankers for Credit Suisse AG, on July 19th, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart...

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CEO of Virginia Health Care Technology Company Sentenced to Almost 10 Years in Prison for $49 Million Shareholder Fraud and $7.5 Million Employment Tax Fraud

A medical doctor and entrepreneur was sentenced to 119 months and 29 days in prison for defrauding his former company’s shareholders and for failing to account for and failing to pay employment taxes, on July 19th, announced Acting Deputy Assistant...

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Former Owner of Bucks County Financial Consulting Firm Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for Bribing Foreign Official

The former owner and president of Chestnut Consulting Group Inc. and Chestnut Consulting Group Co. (the Chestnut Group) was sentenced to 60 months imprisonment for bribing an official at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in...

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Director of South Korea's Earthquake Research Center Convicted of Money Laundering in Million Dollar Bribe Scheme

The Director of South Korea’s Earthquake Research Center at the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM) was convicted on July 17th, following a four-day jury trial of laundering bribes that he received from two seismological...

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Former Employee of U.S. Government Contractor in Afghanistan Pleads Guilty to Accepting Over $250,000 in Kickbacks From Subcontractor

A former employee of a U.S. government contractor in Afghanistan pleaded guilty on July 18th to accepting over $250,000 in illegal kickbacks from an Afghan subcontractor in return for his assistance in obtaining subcontracts on U.S. government...

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Canadian Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Defraud the United States and Stealing Government Funds

A Canadian man pleaded guilty in Rochester, New York to conspiring to defraud the United States and stealing government funds, on July 18th, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division...

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