Press Releases from National Press Office http://www.fbi.gov/fieldnews/breaking.htm Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:58:33 -0400 Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:58:26 -0400 FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.2.9) http://www.feedforall.com Six individuals were charged in Honolulu, Hawaii with engaging in a conspiracy to commit forced labor and document servitude. The defendants allegedly coerced the labor and services of approximately 400 Thai nationals brought by the defendants to the U.S. from Thailand to work on farms across the country under the U.S. federal agricultural guest worker program. http://honolulu.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/hn090210.htm 7CEF140A-1733-413B-BF19-D3CFBA7BB0AA Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:51:42 -0400 Christopher McCullough, currently of Frederic, Colorado and formerly of Houston, Texas, was sentenced to 51 months in prison for his embezzlement of more than $3 million while serving as the chief financial officer of LJA Engineering, a Houston-based company. http://houston.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/ho090210.htm 56C3286F-B95F-410E-9A53-C6CA539EB552 Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:47:48 -0400 Dorothy Ellis, of Texas City, Texas, a former senior employee of a U.S. military contractor, pled guilty to conspiracy to pay $360,000 in bribes to U.S. Army contracting officials stationed at a U.S. military base in Kuwait. http://washingtondc.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/wfo090210a.htm EF615AB7-9FEB-4237-BB74-5AE6C1D03F8D Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:38:16 -0400 Polar Air Cargo LLC has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $17.4 million criminal fine for its role in a conspiracy to fix the cargo rates charged to certain customers for international air cargo shipments between the United States and Australia. http://washingtondc.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/wfo090210.htm EFB19D4F-96DA-40BA-B7E8-B269297AC750 Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:35:28 -0400 Lucius T. Solomon, III, of Atlanta, Georgia, formerly an officer with the Atlanta Police Department, pled guilty to corruption and drug charges in connection with providing protection in exchange for money for what he believed to be multi-kilogram cocaine deals. http://atlanta.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/at090210.htm EC4CF3EC-B1E6-41D9-9C34-D4EB0C63D8AD Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:32:40 -0400 Charles K. Schwartz, the founder and president of Allied Health Care Services Inc., an Orange, New Jersey durable medical equipment corporation, was charged with fraudulently obtaining more than $87 million from banks based on phony lease agreements. http://newark.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/nk090210.htm 41E1FBA3-D98B-45A6-AD6A-BA406CA3631D Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:29:29 -0400 Delwyn Aaron Randall, of Cove, Arizona, who had previously been convicted of conspiring to distribute marijuana, was sentenced to 33 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. http://phoenix.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/px090210.htm E8760651-1A63-4DAB-88E2-6750770F1BBE Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:25:34 -0400 Adam Oliveri, a former inmate at Big Sandy Prison in Inez, Kentucky, was sentenced to 17.5 years in prison for stabbing a corrections officer in the head, back, and arm with a prison made weapon. As a result of Oliveri's attack, the officer suffered from several injuries. http://louisville.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/lo090210.htm ACEAE2F1-1057-411C-BC55-EDEE091E8DF5 Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:22:46 -0400 Alvin Bear Heels, Jr., an inmate at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, was sentenced to 24 months following his guilty plea to possession of contraband--in this case, a metal shank. http://indianapolis.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/ip090210.htm 99AD00E1-7978-461A-B3E7-EABFA15A078E Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:18:32 -0400 Corey N. Johnston, of Lakeville, Minnesota, pled guilty to operating a Ponzi scheme that defrauded at least 17 lenders in Minnesota and several other states. According to the government's investigation, the lenders suffered losses in excess of $79 million. http://minneapolis.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/mp090210.htm 97632D86-9B1D-4016-A806-6A0B650E955E Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:15:30 -0400 Harold Hutcheson, a former captain at the Northwest Correctional Complex (NCC), in Tiptonville, Tennessee, and Joshua Ryan Jones and Roger Forrester, former officers at NCC, were sentenced for violating the civil rights of an inmate and then lying about it during the state and federal investigations. http://memphis.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/me090210.htm EB930729-9F82-463C-ACB4-009DF4E22741 Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:04:46 -0400 Anthony Brashears, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was charged with attempting to rob a Citizens Bank branch in Philadelphia. http://philadelphia.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/ph090210a.htm 57692996-7779-48FD-83CF-126A119E4B6B Thu, 2 Sep 2010 16:59:49 -0400 Nathan Allen Kriegler, Ryan A. Pollack, and Evan F. Appel were indicted in Pennsylvania on wire and mail fraud charges in connection with a scheme to defraud approximately 19 retail corporations out of approximately $543,500.67 worth of merchandise. http://philadelphia.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/ph090210.htm 80671CC7-99D8-4848-9863-651FBB1A3068 Thu, 2 Sep 2010 16:54:20 -0400 Tiran Jenkins, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison without the possibility of parole for armed bank robbery, brandishing a firearm during the commission of that robbery, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. http://milwaukee.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/mw090110a.htm 47D7A411-9594-449D-965D-C3E13174EC8D Wed, 1 Sep 2010 12:08:59 -0400 A federal grand jury in San Francisco, California indicted 11 defendants for participating in three separate but related conspiracies to distribute controlled substances through online pharmacies outside the scope of professional medical practice. http://sanfrancisco.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/sf090110a.htm 59CDE312-6E2E-4AF4-BFC2-E8BB89A621C3 Wed, 1 Sep 2010 12:04:08 -0400 Michael Tsan, of San Francisco, California, pled guilty to interfering with commerce by threats and violence, admitting that he extorted a Chinatown business owner through the use of force and fear and attempted to induce the victim to part with property. http://sanfrancisco.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/sf090110.htm 668E3461-213D-427B-B9A7-CC5CB0DFDC3F Wed, 1 Sep 2010 12:01:19 -0400 Douglas L. Lepo, of Sterling Heights, Michigan, was charged in Ohio with one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud in connection with allegedly devising a scheme to defraud various consumers in Ohio and elsewhere by fraudulently enticing them to purchase a business opportunity from the company he worked for. http://cleveland.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/cl090110.htm 468E1168-A997-4791-BBD5-5D88C633205D Wed, 1 Sep 2010 11:55:26 -0400 David Yen Lee, a former chemist for paint manufacturing company Valspar Corp., pled guilty in Chicago, Illinois to theft of trade secrets, admitting that he stole numerous formulas and other proprietary information valued up to $20 million as he prepared to go to work for a competitor in China. http://chicago.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/cg090110.htm 30152088-AD88-4362-86DA-1563DF27456A Wed, 1 Sep 2010 11:12:34 -0400 Derek A. Lewis, the mayor of Port Allen, Louisiana, and Frederick W. Smith, the chief of police for Port Allen, were indicted on charges of allegedly obtaining cash and other things of value worth approximately $20,000 from business people in exchange for using their official positions with the city of Port Allen for the benefit of the business people in connection with transactions represented to be worth over $5,000,000. http://neworleans.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/no090110.htm 41407152-D431-46CC-8F49-34A505EF5EE3 Wed, 1 Sep 2010 10:59:02 -0400 Alfredo Rasco and Niurka Rasco, both of Miami, Florida, and Iris Oswald, of St. Simons Island, Georgia, pled guilty in Savannah, Georgia to their roles in a scheme to defraud Medicare of $6.5 million. http://atlanta.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/at090110a.htm EB5D56C9-817D-464A-B4E6-1216EDCBCD65 Wed, 1 Sep 2010 10:55:11 -0400 Andre Whitfield, of New Haven, Connecticut, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison on charges of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. http://newhaven.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/nh090110b.htm 662CC89C-7DF0-4AD5-A2B2-3E119A258598 Wed, 1 Sep 2010 10:50:36 -0400 Corrine Horstead, of Newark, Delaware, was sentenced in Pennsylvania to 24 months in prison for stealing approximately $230,000 by writing checks to herself from her employer's bank account and using the employer's ATM card. http://philadelphia.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/ph090110.htm 35497D09-F2B4-428D-938D-917F184A2C2E Wed, 1 Sep 2010 17:08:58 -0400 Kevin Mendez, of Newington, Connecticut, was sentenced to five years in prison for his participation in a Hartford-area narcotics trafficking ring. http://newhaven.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/nh090110a.htm E7E6B86A-0C17-4F71-893B-433CBF69C089 Wed, 1 Sep 2010 16:31:10 -0400 Pharmaceutical manufacturer Allergan Inc., headquartered in Irvine, California, has agreed to plead guilty and pay $600 million to resolve its criminal and civil liability arising from the company's unlawful promotion of its biological product, Botox, for uses not approved as safe and effective by the Food and Drug Administration. http://atlanta.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/at090110.htm 82EFFDD4-54BF-4CCA-AB73-C6CC7A3A50A2 Wed, 1 Sep 2010 14:13:00 -0400 Hakimullah Mehsud, the self-proclaimed emir of the Pakistani Taliban, was charged in Washington, D.C. for his alleged involvement in the murder of seven American citizens in Afghanistan. http://washingtondc.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/wfo090110.htm D23269CD-5F54-4214-9F40-17708F17C878 Wed, 1 Sep 2010 14:04:38 -0400