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Cambria County Investment Advisor Pleads Guilty in $4.5M Fraud Scheme
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: Douglas P. Simanski, 53, pleaded guilty to five counts before United States District Judge Kim R. Gibson. In connection with the guilty plea, the United States presented information to the Court that established that between February 2002 and May 2016, Simanski, an investment advisor and broker, devised ...
Former O'Fallon Resident Pleads Guilty to Receiving Child Pornography
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: Buse pleaded guilty to a one-count federal indictment without a plea agreement. He faces a prison sentence of 5 to 20 years on the charge. Facts elicited at the plea hearing established that, from January to November 2016, Buse had been offering child pornography files to share over the internet through ...
Ohio Man Sentenced to Prison for Passing Counterfeit Notes
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: United States District Judge David S. Cercone imposed the sentence on David Edward Johnson, 51. According to information presented to the court, on eight separate dates, Johnson passed 65 counterfeit United States Federal Reserve notes in Western Pennsylvania. Assistant United States Attorney Christian ...
Equine Insurance Agent Charged in $1.3 Million Dollar Fraud Scheme
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 31, 2018
News Release: Randall N. Levesque, 57, of Middletown, owner of Equine Insurance Services, LLC and Randall Levesque Agency, has been charged by way of a federal criminal complaint with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced United States Attorney Stephen G. Dambruch, Special Agent in Charge of the United ...
Romanian National Sentenced and Two Others Plead Guilty in Connection with ATM Skimming Scheme
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 31, 2018
News Release: Nicusor Bonculescu, 24, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge William G. Young to three years in prison and three years of supervised release. Judge Young also ordered Bonculescu to pay restitution of $72,922. In March 2018, Bonculescu pleaded guilty to conspiracy to conduct enterprise affairs through ...
Jefferson Dispatcher Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 30, 2018
News Release: According to the Bill of Information, from around June 2010 through February 2017, NICOLE SERUNTINE worked as a secretary and dispatcher at Company A.M.M., located in Jefferson, Louisiana. Around October 2014 through Feb. 17, 2017, SERUNTINE devised a scheme to defraud Company A.M.M. out of more ...
Killeen Husband and Wife Plead Guilty to Federal Child Exploitation Charges
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 30, 2018
News Release: The Almaguers each face a mandatory minimum term of 15 years up to 30 years in federal prison on each count. Appearing before United States Magistrate Judge Jeffrey C. Manske, the Almaguers admitted that in December 2017 they uploaded sexually explicit videos of themselves sexually assaulting children ...
Tulsa Labor Union Employee Sentenced for Embezzlement
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 30, 2018
News Release: According to her plea on July 23, 2018, Hand admitted to stealing $23,031.59 in payments made to the union as well as illegally spending an additional $21,776.96 on the unions credit cards. As office manager, Hand received monies payed to the labor organization in the form of cash, checks, or money orders ...
Two Tampa Men Indicted for Conspiracy to Commit Identity Theft Crimes
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: This case involved use of counterfeit access devices debit or credit cards trailing from South Carolina to Alabama to purchase goods or pre-paid gift cards. A three-count federal indictment charges OSMANI RAMIREZ CHAVEZ and YANKO TORRES VADELLA ALBA of Tampa, Florida, with conspiring in October 2018 ...
Huntsville Man Indicted on Multiple Counts of Tampering with Vehicle Odometers
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: A 15-count indictment filed in U.S. District Court charges RANDY EUGENE GREEN, 62, d/b/a RJs Auto Sales of Huntsville, with 12-counts of tampering with vehicle odometers and 3-counts of bank fraud. In the twelve counts related to odometer tampering, the offenses occurred between approximately October ...
Secret Service Takes the Fight to Cyberspace
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: On Tuesday, October 23rd, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace hosted a Forum entitled, Inside the Business of Cybercrime in which Secret Service Assistant to the Special Agent in Charge Matthew ONeill discussed information about the Secret Services investigative mission in combatting cybercrime.
Secret Service Investigation Leads to 46 Month Sentence for
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: Beginning in April 2010, Saake, a resident of St. Louis, used her position as the controller for a real estate company based in Creve Couer, Missouri to defraud her employer on multiple occasions over the course of seven years. The investigation revealed that Saake created a fraudulent bank account and ...
Secret Service Statement Regarding Interception of Suspicious Packages
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: Late on Oct. 23, 2018, the Secret Service recovered a single package addressed to Former First Lady Hillary Clinton in Westchester County, New York. Early this morning, Oct. 24, 2018, a second package addressed to the residence of Former President Barack Obama was intercepted by Secret Service personnel in Washington, DC.
Broussard woman sentenced to 2 years for stealing nearly $275,000 from bank customer accounts
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: Derlena Carrier, 59, of Broussard, Louisiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge S. Maurice Hicks Jr. on one count of theft, embezzlement or misapplication by a bank officer or employee. She was also sentenced to five years of supervised released and was ordered to pay $274,980. According to the May ...
Fourteenth and Final Member of the Felony Lane Gang Pleads Guilty in $1 Million Bank Fraud Conspiracy
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: Traveled From Florida to Maryland to Break into Cars and Commit Bank Fraud and Identity Theft in Columbia, Millersville, and Edgewater
Providence Man Sentenced for Bank Fraud, Aggravated ID Theft
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: At sentencing, U.S. District Court Judge John J. McConnell, Jr., also ordered Jamal Mansaray, 29, to serve 5 years supervised release upon completion of his term of incarceration and to pay restitution in the amount of $74,300 to Citizens Bank. Mansaray pleaded guilty on May 30, 2018, to conspiracy to ...
Allen Charged In Seven-Count Federal Indictment With Threat To Use A Biological Toxin As A Weapon
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: The indictment alleges he knowingly threatened to use a biological agent and toxin, specifically ricin, as a weapon. Assistant Attorney General John C. Demers of the Department of Justices National Security Division, U.S. Attorney John W. Huber of Utah, Special Agent in Charge Eric K. Barnhart of the ...
Ohio Man Pleads Guilty to Child Sex Charges Involving Minors in Multiple States
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: According to court documents and admissions made in connection with his guilty pleas, Stone engaged in internet communications with a 15-year old girl who lived in Illinois. In December 2016, Stone traveled from Ohio to Illinois to meet the girl and then drove her to Iowa, where he and the girl engaged ...
Massachusetts Man Pleads Guilty to Sending Threatening Letters, Some Containing Suspicious White Powder
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: Daniel Frisiello, 25, pleaded guilty to 13 counts of mailing a threat to injure the person of another and six counts of false information and hoaxes. U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton scheduled sentencing for Jan. 16, 2019. Frisiello was arrested and charged on March 1, 2018, and has been ...
Columbia Men Sentenced to Lengthy Prison Terms After Federal Convictions for Large Scale Heroin Conspiracy
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: Glover and Pollard each plead guilty last year to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 846, 841(a)(1), and 841(b)(1)(B). Glover also plead guilty to a money laundering conspiracy, in violation ...