Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 27, 2015.  A former executive of a water treatment chemicals manufacturer has pleaded guilty for his role in a conspiracy to eliminate competition by fixing prices, rigging bids and allocating customers for liquid aluminum sulfate supplied to municipalities and pulp and paper companies in the United States. Frank[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 26, 2015.  A former prosecutor for the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office pleaded guilty in federal court today to concealing her knowledge of St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD) officers’ assault upon an arrestee, announced U.S. Attorney Tammy Dickinson of the Western District of Missouri and Principal Deputy[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 26, 2015.  Earlier today, after a month-long trial, Alexander Posobilov, Shavkat Abdullaev and Anastasia Diatlova were convicted of all counts, including conspiring to export, and illegally exporting, controlled microelectronics to Russia.  Posobilov was also convicted of money laundering conspiracy.  These defendants, all of whom worked at Arc Electronics[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 26, 2015.  Leonard Dreyer, a captain with the DeKalb County, Georgia, Sheriff’s Office, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in the Northern District of Georgia on charges of encouraging Dwight Hamilton, a former corrections officer, to use excessive force against an inmate at the DeKalb County[Read More…]

Defendant Laundered Millions through Sham Vendors, Generating Cash to Pay Illegal Kickbacks Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 26, 2015. The owner of two medical clinics in Brooklyn, New York, pleaded guilty today to her role in a $55 million health care fraud and money laundering conspiracy. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of[Read More…]

Defendant Operated Out of the United States, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Bahamas, Spain, France, Italy, Panama and Luxembourg Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 23, 2015.  Gregory Joel Sitzmann, 65, was sentenced today to 30 years in prison for his role as the leader of an international drug trafficking and money laundering ring that operated[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 23, 2015.  Mozaffar Khazaee, 61, formerly of Manchester, Connecticut, was sentenced today to 97 months in prison and ordered to pay a $50,000 fine by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant of the District of Connecticut for violating the Arms Export Control Act by attempting to send to[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 22, 2015.  After having been convicted at trial of producing child pornography, a Miami-Dade County resident was sentenced today to 139 years in prison, to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release by U.S. District Court Chief Judge K. Michael Moore.     U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer for[Read More…]

Defendants Defrauded the U.S. Army National Guard Recruiting Assistance Program Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 22, 2015. Twenty-five individuals have been charged in 14 separate indictments for their alleged participation in a conspiracy to defraud the United States and the National Guard Bureau of money and property, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft,[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 19, 2015.   A former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent was sentenced today to 78 months in prison for extortion, money laundering and obstruction of justice, which crimes he committed while working as an undercover agent investigating Silk Road, an online marketplace used to facilitate the sale and purchase[Read More…]