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DOJ: Head of Albuquerque Fentanyl Trafficking Organization Sentenced 2025-12-16

ALBUQUERQUE - David Mendoza-Enriquez was sentenced to 17 years in federal prison for leading a drug trafficking organization responsible for moving tens of thousands of fentanyl pills from Mexico into...

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DOJ: Former Head of Lynchburg Community Corrections and Pretrial Services Sentenced to 12 Months and 1-day in Federal Prison 2025-12-12

LYNCHBURG, Va. – The former acting director of the Lynchburg Community Corrections & Pretrial Services Department (LCCPS) was sentenced yesterday to 12 months and 1-day in federal prison for accessing...

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DOJ: Former Head of Lynchburg Community Corrections & Pretrial Services Pleads Guilty 2025-08-18

LYNCHBURG, Va. – The former acting director of the Lynchburg Community Corrections & Pretrial Services Department (LCCPS) pled guilty today in federal court for accessing a protected computer system t...

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DOJ: Head of Commercial Real Estate Investment Firm Sentenced to 87 Months for $62.8M Investment Fraud Scheme 2025-05-20

A New York man was sentenced yesterday in the Northern District of Georgia to 87 months in prison and ordered to pay over $45 million in restitution for his role in a scheme to defraud investors in co...

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DOJ: Head of Commercial Real Estate Investment Firm Sentenced to Federal Prison for $62.8 Million Fraud Scheme Targeting Atlanta Financial Center Investors 2025-05-19

ATLANTA - Elchonon (Elie) Schwartz has been sentenced to 87 months of imprisonment and ordered to pay over $45 million in restitution for inducing more than 800 investors to send him approximately $62...

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DOJ: Head of Commercial Real Estate Investment Firm Pleads Guilty in $62.8M Investment Fraud Scheme 2025-02-13

A New York man pleaded guilty yesterday in the Northern District of Georgia for his role in a scheme to defraud investors in connection with two commercial real estate investments.According to court d...

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DOJ: Head of Consulting Firm Eclipse Capital Partners Agrees to Pay Over $3.2 Million to Resolve Alleged False Claims Act Violations Relating to Economic I 2025-02-13

PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Pennsylvania resident Ronald Hoplamazian has agreed to pay $3,277,486.35 to resolve allegations that he violated the False Cla...

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DOJ: Head of Commercial Real Estate Investment Firm Pleads Guilty in $62.8M Fraud Scheme Targeting Atlanta Financial Center Investors 2025-02-12

ATLANTA - Elchonon “Elie” Schwartz pleaded guilty today to wire fraud for executing a massive investment fraud scheme that caused more than 800 investors to send approximately $62.8 million to Schwart...

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DOJ: Former Head of Suburban Chicago Public Library Sentenced to Two Years in Prison for Embezzling More Than $770,000 2024-12-19

CHICAGO — The former director of the Markham, Ill. Public Library has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for embezzling more than $770,000 from the library over a decade.From 2009 to 2019, ...

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DOJ: Head of Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison 2024-12-03

PHOENIX, Ariz. – Heriberto Lopez-Landeros, 44, of Avondale, was sentenced last week by United States District Judge Steven P. Logan to 14 years in prison. Lopez-Landeros pleaded guilty to Possession w...

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DOJ: Head of School at Early Education Center in Northwest Arrested For Attempted Coercion and Enticement of a Minor 2024-11-19

WASHINGTON – James S. Carroll, 55, of Washington D.C., was arrested today on a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court, charging him in connection with attempted coercion and enticement of a m...

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DOJ: Former Head of MCLB-Albany’s Environmental Division Convicted of Lying to Federal Agents Investigating Clean Water Act Violations 2024-03-01

ALBANY, Ga. – A federal contractor who served as the Head of the Environmental Services and Public Works Division at the Marine Corps Logistics Base (MCLB) in Albany was found guilty by a federal jury...

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DOJ: Former Head of New Mission School Sentenced for Misusing Nearly $40,000 in School Funds 2024-01-09

BOSTON – The former Head of School for New Mission School in Hyde Park, an autonomous pilot school within the Boston Public Schools system, was sentenced today for misusing approximately $38,806 in sc...

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DOJ: Former Head of Boro Park Shomrim Society Sentenced to More Than 17 Years in Prison for Transporting a 15-Year-Old Girl With Intent to Engage in Sexual 2023-10-11

Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Jacob Daskal, the former head of the Boro Park Shomrim Society (the “Shomrim”), a private, Orthodox Jewish crime-patrol group associated with the New York ...

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DOJ: Former Head of New Mission School Pleads Guilty to Misusing Nearly $40,000 in School Funds 2023-09-06

BOSTON – The former Head of School for New Mission School in Hyde Park, an autonomous pilot school within the Boston Public Schools system, pleaded guilty today to engaging in a scheme to defraud Bost...

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DOJ: Former Head of Boro Park Shomrim Society Pleads Guilty to Transporting a 15-Year-Old Girl to Engage in Sexual Activity 2023-07-14

Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Jacob Daskal pleaded guilty to transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity. Today’s proceeding was held before United State...

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DOJ: Former Head of Non-Governmental Organization Sentenced for Bribing Officials of Republic of Marshall Islands 2023-05-16

The former president of a New York-based non-governmental entity (NGO) was sentenced today to three years and six months in prison for paying bribes to elected officials of the Republic of the Marshal...

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DOJ: Head of Fort Worth Drug Trafficking Organization Charged 2023-01-24

The head of a Fort Worth drug trafficking operation and his associate have been federal charged, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Leigha Simonton. Leeroy Marquee Jones, aka A...

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DOJ: Former Head of Anaheim Chamber of Commerce Pleads Guilty to Federal Fraud, False Statement and Criminal Tax Charges 2022-07-01

LOS ANGELES – The former president and CEO of the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce pleaded guilty today to federal criminal charges for defrauding a cannabis company, fraudulently obtaining a COVID-relief ...

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DOJ: Former Head of Corporate Communications of $21 Billion Biopharmaceutical Company Admits Insider Trading 2022-06-22

NEWARK, N.J. – The former head of corporate communications for a biopharmaceutical company today admitted her role in an insider trading scheme, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced. Lauren S. ...

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DOJ: Former Head of Anaheim Chamber of Commerce Named in Federal Criminal Complaint Alleging False Statements on Loan Application 2022-05-17

SANTA ANA, California – The former president and CEO of the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce is expected to appear this afternoon in federal court after being charged with lying to a mortgage lender about ...

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DOJ: Former Head of LADWP Sentenced to Six Years in Federal Prison 2022-04-25

LOS ANGELES – The former general manager of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) was sentenced today to 72 months in federal prison for accepting bribes from a lawyer in exchange for ...

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DOJ: Head of the Gulf Cartel indicted 2022-03-24

BROWNSVILLE, Texas – Jose Alfredo Cardenas-Martinez aka El Contador has been indicted in the Southern District of Texas on various charges related to his position as the head of the Cardenas family dr...

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DOJ: Former Head of Enfield Community Development Corp Sentenced to Prison for Theft of Government Funds 2020-09-08

John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DARRIN LAMORE, 49, of Enfield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson to five months of imp...

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DOJ: Head of New York Medical Clinics Sentenced to 156 Months in Prison for Multimillion-Dollar Money Laundering and Health Care Kickbacks Scheme 2020-08-31

Update: This sentencing was vacated. The defendant was resentenced on April 17, 2024, to nine years in prison and ordered to pay $39 million in restitution. A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 156 months ...

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DOJ: Former Head of St. Louis-Area Charter School Pleads Guilty to $2.4 Million Fraud 2020-08-26

St. Louis, MO – Michael Malone, 44, of St. Louis, MO, pled guilty to three counts of wire fraud connected to a scheme to defraud and obtain education funds from the State of Missouri relative to the o...

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DOJ: Former Head of Community Preparatory Academy Admits Stealing Over $3 Million and Spending $220,000 on Disney Expenses 2020-07-17

LOS ANGELES – Federal prosecutors today filed criminal theft and tax fraud charges against the former executive director of a charter school outfit who stole more than $3.1 million that should have be...

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DOJ: Head of Chicago Non-Profit Organization Charged With Fraudulently Pocketing State Grants Intended for Economic Development Projects 2020-05-07

CHICAGO — The head of a Chicago not-for-profit organization fraudulently converted or misappropriated at least $200,000 in State of Illinois grants intended to develop suburban commercial properties a...

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DOJ: Former Head of Airline Sentenced to Prison for Fraud 2020-02-20

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – A Suffolk man was sentenced today to two years in prison for fraud in connection with the failure of People Express Airlines in 2014 and the filing of a false income tax return. Ac...

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DOJ: Head of human smuggling ring sentenced to 10 years in prison 2020-01-22

McALLEN, Texas – The 41-year-old female leader of an alien smuggling organization has been ordered to prison in a conspiracy to transport undocumented aliens and for illegally re-entering the country,...

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DOJ: Head of New York Medical Clinics Found Guilty in Nearly $100 Million Money Laundering and Health Care Kickback Scheme 2019-11-15

The manager in control of multiple medical clinics in Brooklyn and Queens, New York, was found guilty today for his role in a nearly $100 million health care kickback and money laundering scheme. Afte...

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DOJ: Former Head of People Express Airlines Pleads Guilty to Fraud 2019-07-25

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – A Suffolk man pleaded guilty today to fraud in connection with the failure of People Express Airlines in 2014 and the filing of a false income tax return. According to court docume...

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DOJ: Former Head of Organization Backed by Chinese Energy Conglomerate Sentenced to Three Years in Prison for International Bribery and Money Laundering Of 2019-03-25

Chi Ping Patrick Ho, aka “Patrick C.P. Ho” and “He Zhiping,” was sentenced today to serve 36 months in prison for his role in a multi-year, multimillion-dollar scheme to bribe top officials of Chad an...

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DOJ: Former Head of Organization Backed by Chinese Energy Conglomerate Convicted of International Bribery, Money Laundering Offenses 2018-12-05

A federal jury in New York City today convicted the head of a nongovernmental organization (NGO) based in Hong Kong and Virginia on seven counts for his participation in a multi-year, multimillion-dol...

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DOJ: Head of Multinational Drug Organization Sentenced to Life Imprisonment 2018-09-04

A man responsible for distributing hundreds of pounds of ice methamphetamine was sentenced today to a life sentence in federal prison. Jose Maria Valencia, age 44, from La Ruana, Michoacán, Mexico, re...

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DOJ: Head of Drug Trafficking Organization “Little DTO” Sentenced Today to 34 Years’ Imprisonment 2018-08-15

Philadelphia – U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Leon Little, 38, of Cherry Hill, NJ, was sentenced today by the Honorable Cynthia M. Rufe to 408 months in prison and 5 years of su...

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DOJ: Former Head of Nonprofit Sentenced to Prison for Defrauding Mental Health Clinic Out of Over $2 Million 2018-07-13

A former head of a Philadelphia nonprofit mental health clinic was sentenced to 82 months in prison for perpetrating a multiyear fraud scheme through which she stole over $2 million from the clinic th...

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DOJ: Former Head of HSBC’s Global Foreign Exchange Cash Trading Sentenced to 24 Months’ Imprisonment for Front-Running Scheme 2018-04-26

Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Mark Johnson, the former head of global foreign exchange cash trading at HSBC Bank plc, a subsidiary of HSBC Holdings plc (collectively HSBC), was sentence...

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DOJ: Former Head of HSBC’s Global Foreign Exchange Cash-Trading Sentenced to Prison for Multimillion-Dollar Front-Running Scheme 2018-04-26

The former head of global foreign exchange cash trading at HSBC Bank plc, a subsidiary of HSBC Holdings plc (collectively HSBC), was sentenced to prison today for his role defrauding an HSBC client th...

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DOJ: Former Head of Enfield Community Development Corp Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Steal Government Funds 2018-03-16

John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DARRIN LAMORE, 47, of Enfield, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal cour...

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DOJ: Former Head on Enfield Community Development Corporation Charged with Stealing Government Funds 2018-02-20

John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Enfield Polic...

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DOJ: Former Head of Barclays New York Foreign Exchange Operation Indicted for Orchestrating Multimillion-Dollar Front-Running Scheme 2018-01-16

Update: On March 4, 2019, Senior U.S. District Court Judge Charles Roberts Breyer of the Northern District of California granted the Rule 29 motion and granted an acquittal. Mr. Bogucki was acquitted ...

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DOJ: Former Head of Non-Profit Organization Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Theft of More Than $400,000 2017-12-19

WASHINGTON – Blair Wynkoop, 59, the former executive director of a non-profit organization, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison on a charge stemming from the theft of more than $400,000 from th...

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DOJ: Head of Organization Backed by Chinese Energy Conglomerate, and Former Foreign Minister of Senegal, Charged With Bribing High-Level African Officials 2017-11-20

A criminal complaint was unsealed today charging the head of a non-governmental organization based in Hong Kong and Virginia and the former Foreign Minister of Senegal with participating in a multi-ye...

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DOJ: Head of Wildlife Smuggling Ring Pleads Guilty to Smuggling Carvings Made From Ivory, Rhino Horn and Coral 2017-10-24

Guan Zong Chen (“Graham Chen”), an Australian citizen, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston, Massachusetts, on charges that he led a conspiracy to illegally export (smuggle) $700,000 worth ...

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DOJ: Head of Camden Nonprofit Sentenced to 70 Months in Prison for Defrauding Medicaid and Embezzling over $1.5 Million 2017-10-23

CAMDEN, N.J. – The executive director of a nonprofit provider of mental health services to Camden’s poorest residents was sentenced today to 70 months in prison for defrauding New Jersey Medicaid by u...

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DOJ: Head of Amtrak Transportation at Union Station in Chicago Guilty of Corruption for Steering Work to Wife’s Company 2017-10-12

CHICAGO — The head of Amtrak transportation at Union Station in Chicago admitted in federal court today that he steered work to his wife’s company to photograph Amtrak’s “Polar Express” train event la...

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DOJ: Former Head of SoCal Software Firm and IT Executive at Australian Bank Charged in Bribery Scheme to Inflate Revenues and Trigger $98 Million Bonus Pay 2017-09-27

LOS ANGELES – A federal grand jury today returned an indictment that alleges the former head of Santa Monica-based ServiceMesh, Inc. paid bribes to former IT executives at Commonwealth Bank of Austral...

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DOJ: Head of Marijuana Trafficking Cell Convicted 2017-06-07

LAREDO, Texas – The head of a marijuana trafficking cell has pleaded guilty for his role in a conspiracy to traffic drugs from Laredo to the Dallas area via the use of tractor trailers, announced Acti...

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DOJ: Head of North Idaho Drug Trafficking Organization Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Conspiracy to Launder Money 2017-01-19

COEUR D'ALENE – Loren Michelle Toelle, 52, of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho pleaded guilty yesterday conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance and conspiracy to launder money, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olso...

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DOJ: Former Head of Non-Profit Organization Pleads Guilty in Theft of More Than $250,000 2016-12-12

WASHINGTON – Blair Wynkoop, 58, the former executive director of a non-profit organization, pled guilty today to a charge stemming from the theft of at least $250,000 from the charity, announced U.S. ...

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DOJ: Head of Schaumburg Home Health Company Sentenced to Six Years for Scheming to Fraudulently Bill Medicare for Unnecessary Care 2016-07-26

CHICAGO — A federal judge today sentenced the head of a Schaumburg home health company to six years in prison for scheming to bill Medicare for millions of dollars in unnecessary services. As the mana...

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DOJ: Head of Methamphetamine Organization Sent To Prison For Twenty-Five Years 2016-04-15

A man who was responsible for distributing pounds of ice methamphetamine and tampering with witnesses was sentenced today to 25 years in federal prison. Martin Lawrence, 53, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, r...

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DOJ: Former Head of Offshore Brokerage Sentenced to 18 Years for Conspiracy to Commit International Stock Fraud and Money Laundering 2016-03-18

A California man was sentenced to 216 months in prison today for two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit international money laundering in connection with a...

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DOJ: Former Head of Offshore Brokerage Sentenced for Conspiracy to Commit International Stock Fraud and Money Laundering 2016-03-18

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Harold Bailey Gallison II, 58, of Valley Center, California, was sentenced today to 18 years in prison for two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of conspiracy t...

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DOJ: Head of Utah Heroin, Meth Distribution Organization Sentenced to 144 Months in Federal Prison 2016-02-26

SALT LAKE CITY – Lorenzo Verduzco-Benitez, age 28, of West Jordan, Utah, head of a drug organization which sold heroin and methamphetamine in Utah, will serve 144 months in federal prison. U.S. Distri...

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DOJ: Former Head of Offshore Brokerage Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Commit International Stock Fraud and Money Laundering Scams 2015-12-11

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Harold Bailey Gallison II, 58, of Valley Center, California, pleaded guilty today to two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit international...

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DOJ: Former Head of Offshore Brokerage Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Commit International Stock Fraud and Money Laundering Scams 2015-12-10

A California man pleaded guilty today to two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit international money laundering in connection with an international “pump an...

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DOJ: Head of the Gulf Cartel Sentenced to Federal Prison for Drug Trafficking 2015-06-30

BEAUMONT, Texas - U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that the current head of the Mexican drug trafficking organization, the Gulf Cartel, or Cartel del Golfo, has been sentenced to federal pr...

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DOJ: Former Head of Real Estate Investment Firm Sentenced to 8 Years in Prison for the Sale of Unregistered Securities 2015-06-11

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Akbar Bhamani, 61, of Carmichael, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Troy L. Nunley to eight years in prison for two counts of selling unregistered securities, Un...

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DOJ: Former Head of Operations at New York Brokerage Firm Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion and Filing False Tax Return 2015-03-19

A former resident of North Bellmore, New York, pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York in Long Island to one count of tax evasion and one count of filing a...

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DOJ: Head of the Gulf Cartel Pleads Guilty to Federal Drug Trafficking Charges 2015-03-12

Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs BEAUMONT, Texas - U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that the current head of the Mexican drug trafficking organization, the Gulf Cartel, or Car...

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DOJ: Head of the Gulf Cartel Appears in Beaumont Federal Court on Drug Trafficking Charges 2015-03-12

Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs BEAUMONT, Texas - U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that the current head of the Mexican drug trafficking organization, the Gulf Cartel, or Car...

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DOJ: Former Head of Anti-Poverty Agency Sentenced to Prison for Accepting Bribes 2015-03-12

The former head of a Cleveland-area anti-poverty agency was sentence to 30 months in prison for accepting more than $23,000 in cash, home renovations and other things of value in exchange for steering...

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DOJ: Former Head of Albuquerque-Based Drug Trafficking Organization Pleads Guilty to Federal Cocaine Trafficking and Money Laundering Charges 2015-02-25

ALBUQUERQUE – Christopher Roybal, 35, the former leader of an Albuquerque-based drug trafficking organization, entered a guilty plea in federal court this morning. Roybal pled guilty to a cocaine traf...

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DOJ: Head of Newman drug ring gets 10 years in federal prison 2015-02-09

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Kenneth Dewitt Newman, 32, of Huntington, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison. In May 2014, Newman, also known as ...

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DOJ: Former Head of Worldwide Sales at California Valve
Company Pleads Guilty to Foreign Bribery Offense 2012-05-29

WASHINGTON – Paul Cosgrove, the former Head of Worldwide Sales at Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.-based valve company Control Components Inc. (CCI) pleaded guilty today to violating the Foreign Corrupt...

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