Opinion List - Crime & Justice
Joseph Raglione
November 21, 2009
It is strange how far we have not come.
Sadaket Ali Malik
November 20, 2009
Sadaket Malik
New Delhi´s secret search for peace has had sparked off intense political competition in the state. The offer of dialogue in Delhi proved vague. There is no change for the common man. The metal detectors can't detect the anger and alienation of the Kashmiri people. No a...
Subhash Kandpal
November 20, 2009
Working as a police officer is often considered as one of the most adventurous and exciting filed of job by young aspirants. Nonetheless, there are lot of responsibilities that a police officer holds and needs genuine dedication towards work. Learn more about how to become a police officer and their job prospects.
Gary S. Bekkum
November 20, 2009
The TV series "The Prisoner" may seem like science fiction, but many of the ideas can be found in real-life research explored by the U.S. government's intelligence community.
Joseph Raglione
November 20, 2009
What kind of soap do you use to wash Hogs? Is Hogwashing a sport?
Joseph Raglione
November 20, 2009
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, the enemy is at the gates. They have more arrows (dollars) than we do but have faith, we can organize faster and better than they can...>
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Hundreds of insurance company lobbyists. Millions in TV ads from anti-reform organizations. Countl...
Michael Webster, Investigative Reporter
November 19, 2009
Nicholson, met Dragna through a website and had developed a relationship, Kravetz said. Dragna allegedly took several items from Nicholson's home, including a laptop computer, clothing and a cell phone. Some of those items have been found at Dragna's home.
Paul Wallin
November 19, 2009
The Prison Rape Elimination Act requires the Bureau of Justice Statistics to administer a complete and broad statistical evaluation and analysis of the occurrence and effects of prison rape every calendar year. It further specifies that the review and analysis shall be based on a random sample of no...
Paul Wallin
November 19, 2009
After pleading no contest to possession of cocaine base for sale, a man sought to withdraw his plea. His attorney however, did not make a motion to withdraw his plea, since he found that there was no good cause for such a motion. The defendant now appeals his conviction, saying that the court has ma...
Joseph Raglione
November 20, 2009
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, the way the Republicans are carrying on in Washington, you'd think each one was being forced to swallow a Pint of Castor Oil! The Health Bill is not a bad thing, it is a good thing, and it will protect U.S. citizens. If Republicans don't like it, they c...
Gary Ater
November 19, 2009
The antics of the politicians in Washington would be laughable if they weren´t so tragic.
Gary S. Bekkum
November 19, 2009
When Patrick McGoohan decided he was "going rogue" with his seminal 1960s television series "The Prisoner," the real secret mind-control effort was still safely hidden within the American Intelligence Community. Stranger still are the real life events at Skinwalker Ranch in Utah. Were these paranormal phenomena, or the actions of rogue scientists supported by deep black operations?
Gianluca D'Agostino
November 19, 2009
In the end this entire argument that has been raised against google and other copyright use can be judged with all due respect as "stupid" because if you threat abandoning google it's like if you threat yourself and your visibility in the world.
As google is today's world, period.
Michelle Malsbury, BSBM, MM
November 19, 2009
Jewell Parker Rhodes has written another supernatural thriller. Yellow Moon is set in New Orleans and hinges on a thorough knowledge of voodoo, religion, medicine, and forensics. For more insight into this wonderful new novel please read this review in its entirety.
Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
November 17, 2009
Main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party´s secretary general Khondokar Delwar Hossain alleged that the government was ´influencing the court´ in getting a verdict as per their wills. While, Law Minister Barrister Shafiq Ahmed rejected such allegations saying, courts and judges were completely independent in making decision. It is believed that Bangladesh Nationalist Party [BNP] is a beneficiary of the August 15, 1975 assassination of Bangabandhu. In this case, it is natural that this party will be sympathetic towards the self-proclaimed killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
November 17, 2009
There is also no action yet by the Bangladeshi government in banning another notorious Islamist outfit named Hizbut Towhid, which is continuing its activities in the country, as well as continuing to sell hate materials amongst Bangladeshi people and spreading hatred through its website. Hizbut Towhid terms Jews and Christians as ´enemies of Islam´ and call on its members and other fellow Muslims in waging ´jihad´ against Jews and Christians.
Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
November 17, 2009
Few months back, Hizbut Towhid activists were arrested in different parts of Bangladesh, while they were distributing leaflets against Kindergarten schools and English medium education system in Bangladesh. It is learnt from various reliable sources that, Bayeejid Khan Panni has successfully recrited some West educated people in his group, who are working in preparing various publications for this notorious terror outfit. In recent months, the group has started agressively spreading its hate message amongst people with the intention of creating Jihadist mentality in the minds of commoners.
Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
November 17, 2009
Masum also said the battalion personnel had videoed arranged sequences of seizure of drug substances from his room. He was also videoed along with the wife of the owner of the house, he said.
Gary S. Bekkum
November 18, 2009
To put the role of the 1960s TV classic series "The Prisoner" into historical perspective, consider that revelation of CIA's nefarious covert use of drugs and mind-control experiments conducted against unwitting civilians would not be revealed until the middle of the next decade.
In late 1963, Richard Helms requested the investigation of hypnosis and telepathy for the operational intelligence and counterintelligence cold war with the Soviet Union.
Joseph Raglione
November 18, 2009
GreenPeace Activists Are Going to Court in Alberta Canada. They need your help!
David Swanson
November 17, 2009
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and the corporate "mainstream" media make quite a pair. We're hearing a very "balanced" debate over whether KSM should be tried in New York City, and whether the most insane objections to that proposal are really insane or not. But what are we not hearing?
Joseph Raglione
November 17, 2009
Gentle readers of this American Chronicle, every time I believe your government is doing something good, something bad happens! During the last election, Homo Sexuals lost their right to marry in California, due mainly to the direct economic interference of biased religious organizations. And now, a...
Joseph Raglione
November 17, 2009
Gentle readers of this American Chronicle, life is hard enough without military dictators creating fear and terror in countries like North Korea. The following is a message from Rohit Mahajan, Media Relations Manager for the Radio Free Asia network...>
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Tymphaios
November 16, 2009
In 1948, Cominform, the first official forum of the international communist movement since the dissolution of the Comintern, put into action a plan to take hostage to communist countries children from Greece during the Greek civil war. The aim was to re-educate the children as well as blackmail the populace and the Greek government towards reaching a settlement leading to a partition of Greece and the subsequent creation of an internationalist "Macedonian" Republic. This move has favoured by the Yugoslav dictator Josip Broz Tito and had been a Comitern policy aimed at destroying the national states of the Balkans through the creation of internationalist republics. Today several FYROM sources claim or at least believe the abducted children were FYROMacedonian. Indeed that they were not abducted, rather they were refugees fleeing the Greek army.
Michael Webster, Investigative Reporter
November 13, 2009
This is the crux of the problem the U.S. does not want to admit the terrorist including many of the so called home grown terrorist are radical Muslims and they as well as the two wars in the middle east is part of the overall holy war of which the west does not want to acknowledge that the war itself is a "Holy War" in fear that it will tarnish the non- radical Muslims.
Subhash Kandpal
November 14, 2009
Phlebotomy technicians are important members of the health care team who usually work with physicians, laboratory staff, nurses and patients. They are mainly employed in hospital and clinic settings, but at times they may also require performing their duties in private home care facilities or laboratories. As per the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the job opportunities for phlebotomy technicians are further expected to grow by 14% between 2006 and 2016.
William Hughes
November 15, 2009
The state of Virginia executed John Allen Muhammad, the Washington area sniper, who killed ten innocent people on a murder spree. Muhammad, like Timothy J. McVeigh, was a Gulf War Vet, who was exposed to deadly toxic chemicals. His lawyers pleaded with Governor Tim Kaine to spare his life, arguing that he was suffering from the "Gulf War Syndrome." Albert Camus, the author, said the death penalty was really about--"vengeance!"
Sadaket Ali Malik
November 15, 2009
The mob by definition is meant when there is a rising of tension and it comes together to commit an act of violent protest is not a new concept in democratic republic like ours. The concept by and large generated by political gooms, religious and fundamentalist forces for their petty interests and v...
Joseph Raglione
November 15, 2009
Slow change is better than no change but how much slower will they go?
Gary S. Bekkum
November 14, 2009
With the announcement by NASA of the discovery of water on the moon, a major boost towards colonization of the lunar surface, one question remains.
"Where are the aliens?"
In 1998, Ingo Swann, who remains the best known American psychic spy, largely due to his work with the CIA and the Department of Defense to develop psychic powers for the military, wrote a small rare volume about his misadventures concerning our nearby satellite.
Congressional Desk
November 14, 2009
(Beaufort, SC) – Congressman Joe Wilson (SC-02), member of the House Armed Services Committee, \ released the following statement after the Obama Administration announced their decision to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed mastermind of the September 11th terrorist attacks, to New Yo...
Congressional Desk
November 14, 2009
WASHINGTON, DC – Missouri Congressman Roy Blunt issued the following statement regarding the Obama Administration´s decision to try the mastermind of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the American court system:
"The Obama Administration´s decision to try 9-11 mastermind Khal...
Congressional Desk
November 14, 2009
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Wally Herger (R-CA), criticized President Obama´s decision to bring the self-confessed mastermind of the September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States to New York City for trial in civilian court. Herger argued that this move indicates that President Oba...
Congressional Desk
November 14, 2009
WASHINGTON, D.C – U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, expressed outrage over the Obama Administration´s plan to try five 9/11 conspirators in New York City.
"President Obama´s failure to recognize terrorist attacks as acts of war is...
Joseph Raglione
November 14, 2009
What if the United Nations issued United Nations Passports to Stateless people in desperate need?
Crime Blotter
November 14, 2009
PORTLAND, OR—Trayvon Mike Betterson, 24, of Los Angeles, California, was sentenced on November 3, 2009, by United States District Judge James A. Redden to 105 months in federal prison, to be followed by a three-year term of supervised release, for his role in an armed bank robbery at the Ralei...
Crime Blotter
November 14, 2009
St. Louis, MO: Mario Obryan Wright was indicted on charges involving the robbery of a Gasconade County bank, Acting United States Attorney Michael W. Reap announced today.
According to the indictment, on August 8, 2009, Mario Obryan Wright robbed the Legends Bank in Bland, Missouri.
"I would l...
Crime Blotter
November 14, 2009
ST. LOUIS, MO—Kenneth G. Neely pleaded guilty to a mail fraud charge involving an investment Ponzi scheme in which he swindled investors out of more than $400,000, Acting United States Attorney Michael W. Reap announced today.
Kenneth Neely worked for a number of investment/ brokerage firms...
Crime Blotter
November 14, 2009
A federal indictment was unsealed today alleging the owner of Advance Home Health and two of the company´s personal care assistants fraudulently obtained more than $89,000 from Medicaid. The indictment indicates the three defendants in this case caused the submission of reimbursement claims fo...
Crime Blotter
November 14, 2009
A federal grand jury has returned an indictment against a 21-year-old Red Lake man for allegedly sexually abusing two boys (ages 6 and 7) on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. In an indictment filed with the U.S. District Court earlier today, Eagle Wind Lajeunesse was charged with one count of aggrava...
Crime Blotter
November 14, 2009
A 40-year-old Cottage Grove man pleaded guilty today to possessing 142 images and 11 video files of child pornography. Appearing before United States District Court Judge John Tunheim in Minneapolis, Pang Thao pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography. Thao was indicted on Augus...
Crime Blotter
November 14, 2009
PHOENIX—Melvin Pascal Nash, 23, of San Carlos, Ariz., a member of the San Carlos Apache Indian Tribe, was sentenced today to 25 years in federal prison by U.S. District Judge James A. Teilborg. Nash pleaded guilty on August 4, 2009, to Second Degree Murder.
On August 28, 2008, near San Carl...
Crime Blotter
November 14, 2009
PHOENIX—Donald Ray Ludington, 48, of Gilbert, Ariz., was arrested without incident today by the FBI and the Gilbert Police Department, and was charged with two counts of Armed Bank Robbery. The complaint alleges that Ludington robbed a credit union and a bank in October 2009. Ludington made hi...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
PHILADELPHIA—Alhinde Weems, a former Philadelphia police officer, was charged today by information with conspiracy to commit robbery and drug distribution and related charges, announced United States Attorney Michael L. Levy. According to the information, between December 2008 and January 2009...
Crime Blotter
November 14, 2009
NEWARK—A Clark man was sentenced today to 76 months in federal prison for his scheme to defraud customers of two banks where he had been employed of more than $2.5 million, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
After imposing the sentence, U.S. District Judge Peter G. Sheridan revoked ba...
Crime Blotter
November 14, 2009
MEMPHIS, TN—A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging an individual with violations of federal criminal law involving wire fraud announced Lawrence J. Laurenzi, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee. The indictment resulted from investigations conducted by the...
Crime Blotter
November 14, 2009
ALEXANDRIA, LA—Laverne J. James, 53, of Ball, LA, who has been employed by the Town of Ball Police Department since 1993, pled guilty today to conspiring with others to defraud the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) following Hurricanes Rita and Gustav, United States Attorney Donald W....
Crime Blotter
November 14, 2009
BROWNSVILLE, TX—Former Customs and Border Protection (CBP) inspector Sergio Lopez Hernandez, 41, has been sentenced to 135 months in federal prison for alien smuggling, bribery and drug trafficking, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today. Hernandez was convicted April 13, 2009, fol...
Crime Blotter
November 14, 2009
Jeffery H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Office, announced that former University of South Alabama Professor Barry Simpson, 44, was sentenced today by U.S. Distric...
Crime Blotter
November 14, 2009
BOSTON, MA—A Boston man was indicted today by a federal grand jury in connection with bank robbery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Acting United States Attorney Michael K. Loucks; Warren T. Bamford, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation - Boston Field Division; Commiss...
Crime Blotter
November 14, 2009
CHICAGO—A former General Motors Corp. executive who was a fugitive abroad for more than a year returned to the United States yesterday and pleaded guilty today to federal charges relating to a kickback and fraud scheme involving GM´s sale of bulk aluminum to third parties. The defendant,...
Crime Blotter
November 14, 2009
CHICAGO—A former General Motors Corp. executive who was a fugitive abroad for more than a year returned to the United States yesterday and pleaded guilty today to federal charges relating to a kickback and fraud scheme involving GM´s sale of bulk aluminum to third parties. The defendant,...
Crime Blotter
November 14, 2009
WASHINGTON—Hayden B. Greene, 32, of Tulsa, Okla., and James Robert Roy, 42, of Tomball, Texas, were sentenced today to 30 months and 15 months in prison, respectively, for conspiring to manufacture and sell counterfeit pipe couplings, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the...
Crime Blotter
November 14, 2009
HOUSTON—Two men who wore masks and carried firearms during the robbery of Guaranty Bank on Jan. 14, 2009, in Bellaire have been sentenced to more than 16 years each in federal prison, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today.
Antwaine Joseph Alexander, Jerry Anthony Ramsey and a t...
Crime Blotter
November 14, 2009
JACKSONVILLE, FL—United States Attorney A. Brian Albritton announces that U.S. District Judge Henry Lee Adams, Jr., today sentenced Juan Carlos Gonzalez (age 51, of Jacksonville) to seven years in federal prison for conspiring to commit wire and bank fraud. The court also entered a money judgm...
Crime Blotter
November 14, 2009
NEW YORK—Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Joseph M. Demarest, Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the FBI and Patricia J. Haynes, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office, Criminal Investigation, Internal ...
Crime Blotter
November 14, 2009
Former Mortgage Broker Pleads Guilty to a $20 Million Mortgage Fraud, Real Estate Investment Scam, and Check-Kiting Scheme
ATLANTA, GA—EDWARD WILLIAM FARLEY, 47, of Hoschton, Georgia, today pleaded guilty in federal district court to committing a mortgage fraud, a real estate investment...
Crime Blotter
November 14, 2009
ATLANTA, GA—STEVEN H. BALLARD, 53, of McDonough, Georgia, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Thomas W. Thrash, Jr. to serve over five years in federal prison on a wire fraud charge involving a real estate investment scam that lasted over five years and defrauded a dozen victi...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
BOSTON, MA—Charges were unsealed in federal court against an Oregon man and the company he founded, TCNISO, alleging that they developed and distributed products that allowed users to modify their cable modems and obtain internet access without paying for it.
Acting United States Attorney M...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
ROME, GA—AARON FREEMAN, 49, of Rome, Georgia, and eight other Georgia men have been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly taking part in a scheme that caused FREEMAN´s employer, Temple Inland Inc., to pay more than $4.8 million for timber that did not exist. FREEMAN and seven of...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
BATON ROUGE, LA—United States Attorney David R. Dugas announced today that EDWARD C. JAMES, age 65, of Baton Rouge, LA was charged in a Bill of Information with violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) and with conspiracy for allegedly accepting or extorting brib...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
RICHMOND, VA—Zarqurous Lequis Sanders, 25 of Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced today to 137 months´ imprisonment for his role in a conspiracy to commit numerous bank robberies in Virginia and several other states. In imposing the sentence, United States District Judge Henry E. Hudson also ...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
David C. Weiss, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that Ed Johnson, age 60, and G. Carol Johnson, age 67, of Wilmington, were both found guilty by a federal jury yesterday of one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, 10 counts of mail and wire fraud and...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
MADISON, WI—Stephen P. Sinnott, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Timothy E. Vernier, 57, and Stephen N. Vernier, 63, both of Tomah, Wis., were charged today in a one count information filed in U.S. District Court in Madison with one count of b...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, today announced that an information was filed against Richard C. Peplin, Jr., charging him with one count of falsifying his application for a passport. According to court filings, Peplin, age 51, currently resides in Ten...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
Within the last several months, the FBI has seen a significant increase in fraud involving the exploitation of valid online banking credentials belonging to small and medium businesses, municipal governments, and school districts. In a typical scenario, the targeted entity receives a "spear phishing...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
LAKE CHARLES, LA—Members of a large scale illegal alien transportation operation based in Sulphur, La., were sentenced in federal court yesterday, United States Attorney Donald W. Washington announced. U. S. District Judge Patricia Minaldi sentenced Carolyn Joyce Metcalf, 62, to 30 months (2 ˝...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today removed Patricia Rosa Vinck, Barakaat International, and Barakaat International Foundation from its Specially Designated Nationals List, having found that Vinck and the two entities no longer present a s...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
Steven E. Tennies, 52, of Kooskia, Idaho, was sentenced on Tuesday to 48 months in prison for operating a Ponzi scheme in which Tennies stole approximately $1.6 million from investors through an investment fund he managed, the United States Attorney´s Office announced. U.S. District Judge Edwa...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
WASHINGTON—The United States today sued Lincoln Fabrics Ltd., a Canadian company, and Lincoln Fabrics Inc., aka Lincoln Textiles Inc., its American subsidiary, under the False Claims Act in connection with the companies´ weaving and sale of defective Zylon fabric which was used as the ke...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
COLUMBIA, SC—United States Attorney W. Walter Wilkins stated today that Sohail Feroz Ali Dossani, a/k/a Sohail Muhammad Jamal, age 29, a Pakistani national located in Florence, pled guilty to filing false statements to gain entry and citizenship, a violation of Title 8, United States Code, Sec...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
PHOENIX—Ryan Akira Garcia, 35, the so-called "Bank Whisperer," was sentenced today to 13˝ years in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Susan R. Bolton. Garcia, who was on federal supervised release out of Tucson for Importation of Cocaine, was charged with five bank robberies in the Phoenix ...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
TUCSON, AZ—A four-count federal indictment was unsealed today against former U.S. Border Patrol Agent Yamilkar Fierros, of Tucson, for allegedly accepting bribes. Fierros was arrested without incident by Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Friday, October 30, 2009, and mad...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
BROWNSVILLE, TX—Rudy Trace Soliz III, 43, has been charged with bringing in and willfully transporting an undocumented alien and conspiracy to commit the same, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today. Soliz, of Brownsville, was formerly employed as an officer with Customs and Border...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Office, and Robert Parker, Director, Miami-Dade Police Department, announced that defendant Jorge Delgado was sentenced on Oct...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
A 42-year-old Red Lake man was sentenced yesterday in federal court for assaulting someone by pouring scalding water and food on them. In Fergus Falls, United States District Court Judge John Tunheim sentenced Ronald Dean Oakgrove to 60 months in prison and three years of supervised release on one c...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
A 37-year-old Minneapolis man pleaded guilty today in federal court to attempting to rob an Associated Bank in Burnsville on July 16, 2009. Carnovsky Deshawn Franklin pled guilty to one count of attempted bank robbery in St. Paul before United States District Court Judge Donovan Frank. Franklin was ...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO—Michael Chou pleaded guilty in federal court today to wire fraud conspiracy, United States Attorney Joseph P. Russoniello announced.
In pleading guilty, Chou admitted that, in a scheme that began in 2003 and continued until approximately April 30, 2009, he defrauded mortgage l...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO—Pursuant to a plea agreement, Roberto Heckscher, a resident of San Mateo, Calif., pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston to one count of mail fraud, announced United States Attorney Joseph P. Russoniello.
On Oct. 16, 2009, the United States charged...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
NEWARK—The former Project Coordinator and engineer for the West New York Department of Public Works was sentenced today to 12 months in federal prison for taking corrupt cash payments from contractors, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
U.S. District Judge Stanley R. Chesler also orde...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
Dennis C. Pfannenschmidt, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced today that he has filed one-count Criminal Information against Michael Maroukis, of Pottsville, Pennsylvania.
The Criminal Information avers that the Maroukis, possessed images of child pornography...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
NORFOLK, VA—Federal and local authorities announced today that former Virginia Beach Police officer Andrey Savelyev, 40, pled guilty to conspiracy to commit marriage fraud and making statements with regard to immigration fraud. Savelyev faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison when he i...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
DALLAS—A Dallas man who robbed the First Convenience Bank on N. Beckley in DeSoto, Texas on May 4, 2009, was sentenced today, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas. Freddie Darnell Ivory, 53, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O´Connor to 42 m...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
PORTLAND, OR—Mitchell Sean Cooley, 51, Canby, Oregon, was sentenced on November 2, 2008, by United States District Judge Ancer L. Haggery to serve 136 months in federal prison for bank robbery consecutive to Cooley´s other sentences previously imposed in Clackamas County Court and for a ...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
WASHINGTON—The owner and operator of a Houston-area durable medical equipment (DME) company today pleaded guilty to defrauding the Medicare program, announced Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer, U.S. Attorney Tim Johnson of the Southern District of Texas and Da...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
ATLANTA, GA—DARRYL HORTON, 48, of Okemos, Michigan; BENJAMIN STANLEY, 47, of Kennesaw, Georgia; and RUFUS PAUL HARRIS, 41, of Adairsville, Georgia, made their first appearance today before a United States Magistrate Judge on federal charges of securities fraud and conspiracy in connection with...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
ST. LOUIS, MO—Adam Dylan Leon was sentenced to 24 months in prison on federal charges of interstate transportation of a stolen aircraft, importation of a stolen aircraft, and illegal entry, for flying a stolen Cessna 172 aircraft into the United States from Canada, Acting United States Attorne...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
A 50-year-old St. Paul man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to robbing a TCF Bank in St. Paul on September 25, 2008. Frazier Eugene Turner appeared before United States District Court Judge David S. Doty in Minneapolis on November 2, 2009, and pleaded guilty to one count of bank robbery. Tu...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
COLUMBIA, SC—United States Attorney W. Walter Wilkins stated that Terrell L. Mallard, age 30, of Charleston, pled guilty today in federal court in Charleston to the charge of attempting to kill a federal officer, two counts of attempting to kill a person assisting a federal officer, and posses...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
TYLER, TX—U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that a 35-year-old Longview man has pleaded guilty to federal drug violations in the Eastern District of Texas.
MARK LINDSEY OWENS pleaded guilty to possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine today before U.S. Magistrate Ju...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
TAMPA—United States Attorney A. Brian Albritton today announced the results of a nine-month-long Mortgage Fraud Surge investigation that has resulted in charges against more than 100 defendants and involves allegations concerning more than $400 million in loans procured by fraud and more than ...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
WASHINGTON—Michael Bullard, Richard Armstrong, and James Whitewater were sentenced today in federal court in Boise, Idaho, for hate crime and conspiracy charges in connection with the racially-motivated assault of an African-American man outside of a Wal-Mart store in July 2008, the Justice De...
Newswire Services
November 13, 2009
The University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business launched the new Center for Financial Policy on Nov. 2 with a roundtable discussion on the hotly debated issue of "Executive Compensation -- Practices and Reform." The Center for Financial Policy offers an unbiased source of expertise o...
Newswire Services
November 13, 2009
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service is looking for taxpayers who are due to receive a combined $123.5 million in the form of 107,831 refund checks that were returned to the IRS by the U.S. Postal Service due to mailing address errors.
"We are eager to get this money into the hands of ...
Newswire Services
November 13, 2009
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Treasury today designated First East Export Bank (FEEB), a Bank Mellat subsidiary located in Malaysia, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13382 for being owned or controlled by Bank Mellat. Treasury also designated the Chairman of Bank Mellat, Ali Divandari, for act...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
NEW ORLEANS—Ameal Parker, aka Ameal Varnado, age 47, of New Orleans, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt to 30 years in prison for the murder of DEA Supervisory Special Agent Thomas J. Byrne while Agent Byrne was engaged in and on account of the performance of his official ...
Crime Blotter
November 13, 2009
PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, JOSEPH M. DEMAREST, JR., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), PATRICIA J. HAYNES, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal ...
Gary Ater
November 13, 2009
When will the Republicans learn that the new electronic age won´t let them get away with not telling the truth?
John Cain
November 13, 2009
Scott W. Leeds, senior managing partner of the Miami branch of The Cochran Firm, says the case in Fort Lauderdale will almost definitely spur lawsuits looking for refunds, and might set a precedent of greater ordinance scrutiny.
David Swanson
November 13, 2009
Even on its own terms defending the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan and Iraq as validated by experts is a miserable failure.