Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 29, 2013.  Jocelyn Samuels, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division and Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, announced today that former North Carolina Department of Correction’s Division of Community Corrections Probation Officer Willie James Steele Jr., 43, has been[Read More…]

Encino, Calif., Resident Is the Latest in a Series of Defendants Charged with Conspiring with Bankers to Hide Secret Israeli Bank Accounts Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 29, 2013.  Aaron Cohen of Encino, Calif., pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California to conspiracy to defraud the[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A former area motorcycle and recreational vehicle dealer and his accountant, together with eight other defendants who allegedly acted as straw buyers in sham vehicle sales, were indicted on federal charges alleging a nearly $74 million fraudulent financing scheme that resulted in approximately 20 lenders losing more than[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A suburban attorney whose law license was suspended in May was arrested today on federal fraud charges for allegedly misappropriating approximately $2.34 million from a husband and wife who were her clients. The defendant, Kathleen Niew, was charged with 10 counts of wire fraud in a federal grand[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A former Chicago commodities trader was charged today with allegedly fraudulently raising more than $10 million and misappropriating a substantial portion of the money for his personal commodities futures trading to make Ponzi-type payments to investors and to benefit himself and his family, resulting in a loss of[Read More…]

Court Recognizes Due Process Rights of Americans on List PORTLAND, Ore.–(ENEWSPF)–August 29, 2013.  A federal court ruled late yesterday that constitutional rights are at stake when the government places Americans on the No Fly List, agreeing with the plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. The[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 29, 2013.  Jonathan Deck, 59, of Norwood, N.J., was sentenced today in federal court in Utica, N.Y., to 15 months in prison for conspiring to commit wire fraud in connection with the illegal dumping of thousands of tons of asbestos-contaminated construction debris on a 28-acre piece of property[Read More…]

Switzerland Encourages Its Banks to Cooperate with New Program Which Will Require Significant Financial Penalties and Information Sharing from Banks That Aided Secret Account Holders Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 29, 2013.  The Department of Justice today announced a program that will encourage Swiss banks to cooperate in the department’s ongoing investigations of[Read More…]

Springfield, IL-(ENEWSPF)- U.S. District Judge Richard Mills this afternoon sentenced former Illinois correctional officer Steven L. Carson, of Hillsboro, Illinois, to serve 520 months (43 years, four months) in federal prison, to be followed by a lifetime term of supervised release. Carson pleaded guilty in February 2013 to charges that[Read More…]