Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2016.  Two former Deutsche Bank AG (Deutsche Bank) traders—the bank’s supervisor of the Pool Trading Desk in New York and a derivatives trader in London—were indicted for their alleged roles in a scheme to manipulate the U.S. Dollar (USD) London InterBank Offered Rate (LIBOR), a benchmark interest[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2016.  The Justice Department announced yesterday that the independent federal investigation into the fatal shooting of Jamar Clark on Nov. 15, 2015, in North Minneapolis, Minnesota, found insufficient evidence to support federal criminal civil rights charges against Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) Officers Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze. [Read More…]

VIRGINIA–(ENEWSPF)–May 27, 2016.  Mahmoud Amin Mohamed Elhassan, 26, of Woodbridge, Virginia, was indicted by a grand jury late yesterday on charges of conspiracy to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization; aiding and abetting the provision of material support[Read More…]

Hammond, IN-(ENEWSPF)- United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David A. Capp, announced that Zachary Berkshire, 32, of Valparaiso, Indiana was sentenced before District Court Judge Rudy Lozano for one count of enticement of a minor child and two counts of production of child pornography. Berkshire was sentenced to[Read More…]

CFPB Finds That California Loan Officer Shifted Escrow Fees Away from Some Customers to Others WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–May 26, 2016.   The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has taken action against a former Wells Fargo employee for an illegal mortgage fee-shifting scheme. The CFPB found that David Eghbali referred a[Read More…]

MISSOURI–(ENEWSPF)–May 23, 2016.  A San Diego, California, workers’ compensation attorney pleaded guilty today in the Western District of Missouri to one count of filing a false tax return, Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Tammy Dickinson of the Western District[Read More…]

Defendant Originally Charged with Providing Material Support to ISIL Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- Jalil Ibn Ameer Aziz, 19, a U.S. citizen and resident of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was charged in a superseding indictment with solicitation to commit a crime of violence and transmitting a communication containing a threat to injure. The additional charges were[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- A former general manager at an orphanage in Malawi pleaded guilty today to one count of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Richard L. Durbin Jr of the Western District[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- The owner of a Schaumburg construction company intentionally underpaid his union-affiliated employees by more than $1.5 million while underfunding their pension and welfare funds by another $1 million, according to federal criminal charges filed today. JOSEPH LAMPIGNANO, the co-owner of A Lamp Concrete Contractors Inc., assigned laborers to work[Read More…]

Bribes Paid to Former GSA Employees Totaling $15,000 in Exchange for Contract Work Maryland-(ENEWSPF)- A former government contractor pleaded guilty today to paying bribes to public officials related to work his company performed for the General Services Administration (GSA), announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal[Read More…]