Press Releases from National Press Office http://www.fbi.gov/fieldnews/breaking.htm Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:13:06 -0500 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:12:59 -0500 FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.2.9) http://www.feedforall.com Vincent P. Johnson, of Brick, New Jersey, was indicted on charges of threatening employees of five civil rights organizations that work to improve opportunities for Latinos in the United States. http://newark.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/nk020810.htm AB1B84E4-6F39-4CA1-ABD8-883955A4DEDB Mon, 8 Feb 2010 17:06:49 -0500 Robert Egan, of Bedford Corners, New York, the president of Mt. Vernon Money Centers (MVMC), was arrested on charges of defrauding Webster Bank out of $12 million in funds that had been entrusted to MVMC. http://newyork.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/nyfo020810a.htm CC86F399-BC18-4ECE-B0E7-BA91C194E1CE Mon, 8 Feb 2010 17:01:07 -0500 Rajiv Goel, a former executive at Intel Corp., pled guilty in Manhattan federal court to conspiring to commit insider trading with Raj Rajaratnam of the Galleon Group family of hedge funds, as well as to substantive securities fraud, in the largest hedge fund insider trading case in history. http://newyork.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/nyfo020810.htm FBAFDA38-42F0-47A3-B3C4-F36749082154 Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:57:01 -0500 Aerospace engingeer Dongfan Chung, of Orange, California, was sentenced to 188 months in federal prison on charges of economic espionage and acting as an agent of the People's Republic of China for more than three decades while employed by Rockwell and Boeing, from which he stole restricted technology and trade secrets, including information related to the Space Shuttle program and Delta IV rocket. http://losangeles.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/la020810.htm 17D4BA28-856C-4D70-BA62-4AAAE5289158 Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:43:33 -0500 Peter Jerald Frommer, formerly of Malibu and currently believed to be residing in Carpenteria, California, the promoter of a bogus investment offering involving distressed business assets, was taken into custody on federal mail and wire fraud charges in connection with running a Ponzi scheme in which he raised at least $12 million from victims across the U.S. http://losangeles.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/la020510.htm FA8BA09E-06CC-42CD-BC3A-C80040E5D3D8 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 15:41:05 -0500 Joseph T. Lander, the former County Attorney for Dixie County, Florida, was sentenced to 87 months in prison for mail, wire, and bank fraud, as well as money laundering arising from his actions as the Dixie County Attorney and as the CEO of GenSpec, LLC., a vitamin company he founded. http://jacksonville.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/ja020510a.htm 2CEFBAD1-7F40-4285-A715-AE1D5146BAC4 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 15:31:49 -0500 Micah C. Peacock, of Gainesville, Florida, was sentenced to 150 months in federal prison for distribution and possession of child pornography. http://jacksonville.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/ja020510.htm 349C8DEA-01BB-4CC4-9EAF-0BF4AFB7B3E7 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 15:29:21 -0500 Ringo Vaughan, of Springfield, Massachusetts, was indicted on charges of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon. http://boston.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/bs020510.htm A2D28B6B-F8DE-4F27-AD51-D647C7C654F1 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 15:23:20 -0500 Ashton R. O'Dwyer, Jr., of New Orleans, Louisiana, was indicted for allegedly e-mailing threatening communications to the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. http://neworleans.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/no020510.htm 22D6A031-B600-42DA-B2BF-80B67BEBC18F Fri, 5 Feb 2010 15:19:26 -0500 Gregory Damon, of Baltimore, Maryland, was sentenced to 77 months in prison for bank robbery, which he committed while he was on probation with the state of Maryland. http://baltimore.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/ba020510a.htm 3F175F5F-F54D-48B6-A491-5F0EF8E2661D Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:13:19 -0500 Wilkins McNair, a former Baltimore, Maryland accountant, pled guilty to wire fraud and witness tampering in connection with a scheme to defraud a client of $950,000, which he did while awaiting trial on other fraud charges. http://baltimore.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/ba020510.htm 1F3386AA-7103-4507-8E3D-B72E58F9E2F6 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 15:10:56 -0500 Jodi Lynn Wiirre, of New York Mills, Minnesota, pled guilty to embezzling $65,000 from the credit union where she worked. http://minneapolis.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/mp020810a.htm CFB62852-8EB1-4797-A95B-A9EDF1B624E9 Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:06:10 -0500 Matthew Charles Stuart, of Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, pled guilty to possessing more than 600 images of child pornography. http://minneapolis.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/mp020810.htm 4676455B-EFD4-49C2-978C-E76C7925DE8E Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:03:43 -0500 Travis Lenois Allen, Antiowan Devon Loftin, and Chester Darnell Higgins, all of Elkhart, Indiana, were each sentenced for their participation in the armed robbery of the Berrien Teacher's Credit Union in Niles, Michigan. http://detroit.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/de020510.htm 27BB43C6-28E1-45A6-86B8-F2FBF737D017 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 14:57:12 -0500 David L. Robinson, of Lawrence, Kansas; Daniel W. Denham, of Kingsville, Missouri; and Larry P. Goodyke, of Henderson, Nevada, all of whom had connections to the sovereign citizens movement, were sentenced in Kansas City, Missouri for participating in a conspiracy to use fraudulent diplomatic credentials. http://kansascity.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/kc020810.htm E62F174B-0384-4B51-80D9-B3C5C864A4CA Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:51:38 -0500 Julio A. Bonilla, of Hartford, Connecticut, was sentenced to two years in federal prison for his participation in a narcotics trafficking ring. http://newhaven.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/nh020510c.htm 8EA8C0E2-C0CC-4DA7-8754-CC134C5C0E31 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 13:03:51 -0500 Claude Lee, a citizen of Jamaica residing in Bridgeport, Connecticut, was sentenced to 37 months in prison for maintaining a marijuana-growing operation in his house. http://newhaven.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/nh020510b.htm AD113867-BF20-44CE-ADDA-EB3CCE827F9F Fri, 5 Feb 2010 13:01:31 -0500 Avelino Gonzalez-Claudio, who was a fugitive for more than 22 years before being arrested in Puerto Rico on February 7, 2008, pled guilty to federal charges related to his involvement in a 1983 armored truck robbery of approximately $7 million in West Hartford, Connecticut. http://newhaven.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/nh020510a.htm 7D53466F-1F27-416A-ABBB-95BB38C8DFBF Fri, 5 Feb 2010 12:58:16 -0500 Victor Roberson, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison for his participation in a Bridgeport-based narcotics-trafficking ring. http://newhaven.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/nh020510.htm 22293025-0D19-4F7C-A369-42FEF38FF5AA Fri, 5 Feb 2010 12:56:33 -0500 Rigoberto Torres-Gomez, a native of El Salvador illegally in the United States, pled guilty in Laredo, Texas to assaulting a U.S. Border Patrol agent by running into the agent with a vehicle. http://sanantonio.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/sa020410.htm 37CCCEFA-6FCD-4917-9459-8AE7A2E80BA1 Thu, 4 Feb 2010 15:56:36 -0500 Antonyo Reece, a member of the "Scarecrow Bandits"--a group of seven individuals who committed a series of violent "takeover-style" bank robberies in the Dallas area between January and June 2008--was sentenced to 140 years in federal prison for his participation in three of the robbery events. http://dallas.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/dl020410.htm C865C02B-04B6-49BC-A872-5D0DE7D844D0 Thu, 4 Feb 2010 15:29:34 -0500 Christopher Ryan Thomas, of Sugarland, Texas, was sentenced in Newport News, Virginia to 33 months in prison for participating in a scheme to steal students' spring break funds while he was affiliated with the Student Government Association of Hampton University. http://norfolk.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/nf020410.htm 1A6CAC24-4598-4375-9972-1D237B12F94C Thu, 4 Feb 2010 15:16:54 -0500 Ming Shan Zhu, the owner of Catco Homes; Alvin Mark Eiland, former owner of Future Mortgage Company Inc.; and Gary Leonard Robinson II, a former employee of Future Mortgage Company Inc., were charged with offenses arising from a scheme to defraud residential mortgage lenders of more than $7 million in loans in connection with home purchases in the Houston area. http://houston.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/ho020410a.htm 1519AC17-43CF-4264-AF28-C0D11DA89BE7 Thu, 4 Feb 2010 15:04:51 -0500 Benjamin Rowner and Jay H. Soled, former owners of a New Jersey-based computer services provider, were each sentenced in Chicago, Illinois to 27 months in jail for participating in a conspiracy to defraud the federal E-Rate program. http://chicago.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/cg020410a.htm 89B3C2EF-19B5-4779-ABEE-110640C1D2E4 Thu, 4 Feb 2010 14:47:35 -0500 Kenneth Lewis Gordon, of Carterville, Illinois, was indicted for possession of child pornography. http://springfield.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/si020410.htm 49462173-F8A9-4118-8E70-789ECE66F019 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 14:34:19 -0500