Press Releases from National Press Office http://www.fbi.gov/fieldnews/breaking.htm Wed, 3 Dec 2008 16:57:18 -0500 Wed, 3 Dec 2008 16:57:08 -0500 FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.2.9) http://www.feedforall.com Preston Pinkett, III, of Alexandria, Virginia, the President and CEO of International Fiduciary Corporation, SA, headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, pled guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud relating to an investment scheme in the United States and Canada. http://washingtondc.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=dojpressrel/pressrel08/wfo120208.pdf CFDC5D68-5A5E-42FB-ACFE-90F02BCEBF03 Tue, 2 Dec 2008 16:46:41 -0500 Leroy Robinson, of Maplewood, New Jersey, a former employee of the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, pled guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering in connection with a corruption probe known as "Operation Bid Rig." http://newark.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=dojpressrel/2008/nk120208.pdf 2D62A8A9-E355-41F6-A8D0-8A886E8E5227 Tue, 2 Dec 2008 15:22:34 -0500 Edem James Etuk, of Houston, Texas, the former owner of PMS Medical Equipment Distributors, was sentenced to five years in federal prison and ordered to pay restitution to the Medicare program for his role in defrauding the federal health care program of almost $4 million in a motorized wheelchair fraud scheme. http://houston.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/ho12012008a.htm 6CF7AC90-9085-47D3-AA2B-CE9DF55C19FA Mon, 1 Dec 2008 15:12:36 -0500 Man Hui Cho and his wife, Ki Sun Park, both of Houston, Texas, were convicted of conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit visa fraud, and conspiracy to import aliens for purposes of prostitution. http://houston.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/ho12022008.htm 090F3DC1-A7B0-4B14-8CA1-C3BE0D80824C Tue, 2 Dec 2008 15:10:39 -0500 Joe Davis Williams and Jvon Barnett were each sentenced in Charlottesville, Virginia to one year in prison for their roles in a drug distribution conspiracy. http://richmond.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/drugconspiracy120108.htm 28AE5582-EA61-48A4-9244-30FE9BB7C4FF Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:55:44 -0500 Dereck Lorenzo Dunston, of Evington, Virginia, was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison after previously pleading guilty to a variety of fraud charges related to a credit card mastering scheme that operated throughout the Western District of Virginia. http://richmond.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/creditfraud120108.htm 3FCFD03A-B808-4898-B045-A06BFED8811A Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:53:51 -0500 Elio Lopez, of Chicago, Illinois, was sentenced in London, Kentucky to more than 12 years in prison for his role in a cocaine distribution conspiracy that profited $1 million. http://louisville.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/drugconspiracy120208.htm 47E390A8-F210-4153-B671-A942A2098A2B Tue, 2 Dec 2008 14:40:23 -0500 Nathaniel Frank Davis, of Wilmington, North Carolina, pled guilty to the June 10, 2008 robbery of a Bank of America branch in Wilmington. http://charlotte.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/2008/ce120208.htm EE4D7BEA-0CAE-434B-A392-1032DD4F5AC9 Tue, 2 Dec 2008 14:35:57 -0500 Frank Scott Surico, of Poughkeepsie, New York, was sentenced to more than seven years in prison for robbing six banks in New York, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. http://newyork.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=dojpressrel/pressrel08/nyfo120208b.pdf C7640F9E-F4E0-43E0-8346-AE6E62F78ED9 Tue, 2 Dec 2008 14:32:42 -0500 Darrell F. Derby, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution at Loretto, Pennsylvania, pled guilty to the assault of a fellow inmate resulting in serious bodily injury. http://pittsburgh.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/2008/pt120108.htm 120E593B-02BC-47FF-B6F7-D06D01BEC848 Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:28:15 -0500 Realtor Arvin Weiss, of Englewood, Colorado, was sentenced to seven years in prison for mortgage fraud and witness tampering. http://denver.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/2008/witnesstampering120208.htm 16B78E37-D14A-482E-A8A4-0093D40A020C Tue, 2 Dec 2008 14:24:33 -0500 Andrew Thomas Collins, of Benton Harbor, Michigan, was indicted and arrested on one count of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine. The charges stem from the seizure of crack cocaine and other controlled substances from Collins while he was employed as a Narcotics Officer with the Benton Harbor Police Department. http://detroit.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/de120108.htm 502C276B-BA4C-4140-A818-288297A55B31 Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:12:03 -0500 Edward Marcelli, of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, pled guilty to orchestrating a check fraud scheme in which he and other individuals used bad checks at retail stores in Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts to purchase more than $280,000 worth of merchandise. http://boston.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/checkfraud120108.htm CE6A105E-8D77-414A-A903-4640E74CA9AB Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:07:21 -0500 Maurice Russell Small and Elysia Nicole Nolan, both of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, pled guilty in federal court to bank robbery and to robbing a bank while out on bond. http://columbia.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=dojpressrel/2008/bankrobbery120108.pdf 41DF297D-4F34-4D27-8656-6117D642FE77 Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:57:53 -0500 Cody Lyle Green was sentenced to nearly five years in prison in connection with the February 28, 2008 robbery of the First National Bank of the Lakes in Minneapolis, Minnesota. http://minneapolis.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=dojpressrel/pressrel08/mp120308.pdf EE47B6EE-D67D-46D4-B72E-003A2A04D726 Wed, 3 Dec 2008 13:43:55 -0500 Augustus Camp, of Rosebud, South Dakota, was sentenced to two years in prison for engaging in abusive sexual contact with a child under the age of 16 years. http://minneapolis.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/mp120208.htm 2FA46740-6807-4BC3-B2A1-BDE5DEF1E850 Tue, 2 Dec 2008 13:40:59 -0500 Chelsey P. Amyotte and Justin R. Beston, both of Dunseith, North Dakota, were sentenced to nearly four years in prison and to 15 years in prison, respectively, for their involvement in the beating death of a woman on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation. http://minneapolis.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=dojpressrel/pressrel08/mp120108a.pdf 5B88F7CD-2BA7-4C97-B208-C177F6606CD0 Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:37:01 -0500 A 20-count Indictment was returned by a federal grand jury in the District of Minnesota charging Thomas Joseph Petters, of Wayzata, Minnesota, along with two companies, Petters Company, Inc., and Petters Group Worldwide, LLC, with wire fraud, mail fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering. http://minneapolis.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=dojpressrel/pressrel08/mp120108.pdf 56955FBA-619C-4AC2-A7D6-3AAB17ACD08D Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:32:50 -0500 A federal grand jury in El Paso, Texas returned guilty verdicts on racketeering-related charges against six leaders and associates of the Barrio Azteca gang. http://elpaso.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=dojpressrel/pressrel08/ep120208.pdf 193E1844-CF84-441F-81BA-47FA3578F1B4 Tue, 2 Dec 2008 13:26:32 -0500 Fabian Aurignac, a cardiologist formerly of McAllen, Texas, was indicted by a federal grand jury in McAllen for health care fraud. http://sanantonio.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/healthfraud12012008.htm 284AAED3-801C-4303-A975-9A90AE99C312 Mon, 1 Dec 2008 11:56:00 -0500 Valorie Kiel Cox, of Huntsville, Alabama, pled guilty to to second degree murder in connection with a vehicular homicide that occurred on Redstone Arsenal, a government facility. http://birmingham.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/bh120108a.htm 33E12675-FFEA-4D30-8CAE-06B3E8B3D248 Mon, 1 Dec 2008 11:30:18 -0500 James Walsh, the former Treasury Manager of NBC Universal, was sentenced to 21 months in prison for his participation in a scheme to steal over $800,000 from NBC Universal and use the stolen money for his own personal benefit. http://newyork.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/nyfo120208a.htm E0280DE8-E6AD-4861-9C55-B2AAA49046E7 Tue, 2 Dec 2008 11:14:36 -0500 Elliot J. Smith, a former director and founding member of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, a former director of the American Stock Exchange (AMEX), and a former chairman and founding member of the AMEX Commodities Exchange, pled guilty to obstruction of justice. http://newyork.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=dojpressrel/pressrel08/nyfo120208.pdf BB1C23FF-F7F5-4256-8377-8289F3A9BD7A Tue, 2 Dec 2008 11:13:52 -0500 An undercover FBI investigation led to federal charges being filed against 17 defendants--15 of them Chicago-area sworn law enforcement officers--who allegedly accepted between $400 and $4,000 each on one or more occasions to serve as lookouts and be ready to intervene in the event real police or rival drug dealers attempted to interfere with any of a dozen different purported transfers of kilogram quantities of cocaine and heroin. http://chicago.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=dojpressrel/pressrel08/dec02_08.pdf E2D4385F-B3EA-4010-9B79-E2D2D140DC1D Tue, 2 Dec 2008 11:06:47 -0500 Larry P. Langford, Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama and former President of the Jefferson County, Alabama, Commission; William B. Blount, a Montgomery, Alabama investment banker, and Albert W. LaPierre, a lobbyist in Birmingham, Alabama, have been indicted on charges of conspiracy, bribery, fraud, money laundering, and filing false tax returns in connection with a long-running bribery scheme related to bond and other financial transactions of Jefferson County. http://birmingham.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/bh120108.htm CDD96FF9-9C1A-469D-8E41-4C0646075267 Mon, 1 Dec 2008 09:57:48 -0500