Press Releases from National Press Office http://www.fbi.gov/fieldnews/breaking.htm Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:11:25 -0500 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:09:06 -0500 FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.2.9) http://www.feedforall.com Matthew B. Pizzolato, of Tickfaw, Louisiana, was charged in a 64-count indictment for allegedly operating a $20 million investment Ponzi scheme. http://neworleans.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/no112009.htm 74581951-A4FF-4239-9E7E-78A70A86A4FB Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:05:53 -0500 A 17-year-old pled guilty in San Diego, California to the murder of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Border Patrol Agent Robert W. Rosas, Jr., which the individual, who entered the U.S. illegally, committed in perpetration of a robbery. http://sandiego.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/sd112009.htm 8105ACE7-F725-47AF-A3C3-1994ACC73485 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:59:17 -0500 Uriel Palacios, of Dallas, Texas, was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for his role in a cocaine trafficking and money laundering conspiracy related to Mexico's Gulf Cartel. http://dallas.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/dl112009a.htm 0C1A0D82-0587-4325-AFAA-90174332FECB Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:50:49 -0500 The last of four family members from San Angelo, Texas, who pled guilty in a transaction structuring case was sentenced. The husband and wife are serving prison sentences, and the children received probation. http://dallas.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/dl112009.htm E780C019-0560-46F7-9E30-266BB67CD33C Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:49:01 -0500 Christopher M. Walters, of Palm Springs, Florida, was charged with robbery of a Wachovia Bank in Palm Springs. http://miami.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/mm112009.htm 86695FE2-6EE3-48EF-ADEA-915485D1330E Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:45:13 -0500 A federal grand jury sitting in Eugene, Oregon returned indictments against 13 individuals on a variety of mortgage and loan fraud charges arising out of the collapse of Desert Sun Development, a company previously headquartered in Bend, Oregon. http://portland.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/pd112009.htm 8B2B43BF-0F30-4FB4-B3EF-3EB901A140A9 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:49:03 -0500 Jayson Galeano, of New York City, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for his involvement in the distribution of cocaine, crack cocaine, and heroin in Manchester, New Hampshire. http://boston.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/bs112009.htm 7B2ED72F-6DB4-4924-8E57-36C0DB172CFE Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:45:56 -0500 Omer Abdi Mohamed, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, was indicted on charges of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and related offenses. http://minneapolis.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/mp111909.htm 1D690213-7509-49E0-8572-232BCBE560B9 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:38:49 -0500 Jamie S. Warnick, a pediatrician who practiced in Decatur, Illinois, was charged with health care fraud for allegedly defrauding a federally funded health care benefit program as well as private insurance companies. http://springfield.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/2009/si111909.htm 23D0A340-E882-4D6F-B1B4-6DD2A5E0B531 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:32:04 -0500 Twenty-nine individuals indicted by a federal grand jury were arrested as a result of an investigation by the FBI and the Puerto Rico Police Department. The defendants are charged with conspiracy, possession with intent to distribute heroin, crack, cocaine, and marijuana, and forfeiture allegations for $11 million. http://sanjuan.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/2009/sj112009.htm A49A140E-9495-4B1B-86E6-6316564D0759 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:26:08 -0500 Julio Bonilla, of Hartford, Connecticut, was sentenced to more than four years in prison for his participation in a narcotics trafficking ring. http://newhaven.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/2009/nh112009.htm F5C0A461-5FFA-49D3-AC9D-7308B7865BB8 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:57:23 -0500 Joseph Sorrentino, of Stratford, Connecticut, pled guilty to one count of interstate transportation of money obtained by fraud. The charge stems from Sorrentino's scheme to steal advance fees from victims who sought financing from him and his company Kenlin Capital, Inc. http://newhaven.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/2009/nh111909b.htm 7CCFA9B8-03D9-440A-966E-7C67F6A9653F Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:53:39 -0500 Luis Hiram Rivas was sentenced in Chattanooga, Tennessee to 24 years and five months in prison for his role in an $18 million Ponzi scheme. http://knoxville.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/kx111909.htm 08D575EB-C8C2-4798-BCA0-13B9289390C4 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:45:13 -0500 Albert Vincent Perkins, of Kansas City, Missouri, pled guilty to robbing First Federal Bank. http://kansascity.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/kc111909a.htm F98A31B5-96FA-479A-A188-3EB35C35D938 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:38:18 -0500 Christopher M. Cockrell, of Amory, Mississippi, was sentenced in Kansas City, Missouri to 10 years in federal prison for the attempted commercial sex trafficking of a child. http://kansascity.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/kc111909.htm E8A2E6E4-181C-47D6-985D-63FDD8252D9D Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:35:57 -0500 Michael C. Sciarra, of Pompton Plains; his nephew, Michael A. Sciarra, of Union City; Mark Ventricelli, of Union City; and Peter Ventricelli, of Parlin, New Jersey, were indicted on charges of conspiracy to extort the owner of a Hawthorne landscaping and paving business. http://newark.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/2009/nk111909.htm 7237DD72-CB73-45A5-A9EB-15607388FDA1 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:17:51 -0500 Daniel Chiu, of Rockaway Township, New Jersey, a senior accountant employed by Bel Fuse, Inc. pled guilty to embezzling approximately $1 million in cash and stock from the company. http://newark.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/2009/nk111909a.htm 41D0AD95-2D93-421A-AC87-FAEE80B7F374 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:15:37 -0500 Evelyn J. Holden, Koveria D. Williams, and Ann M. Warr, all of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, were indicted on charges of using interstate facilities in aid of bribery in connection with Operation Illegal Motion. http://neworleans.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/no111909a.htm 6D57BA8A-AC74-423E-86E6-3CDECB66C3A3 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:07:34 -0500 William R. Hayes, of Bossier City, Louisiana, owner of Fire Security Systems, Inc., was convicted by a federal jury of defrauding the First Louisiana Bank, and later committing bankruptcy fraud by submitting false statements regarding his business and the income from his business. http://neworleans.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/no111909.htm 82F9A66B-E7CC-4998-9A0D-79C80BFE0B01 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:03:48 -0500 Art gallery owners Christopher Breithoff and Constance Breithoff, both of Covington, Louisiana, were sentenced to 21 months and 18 months in prison, respectively, on charges of mail fraud in connection with their perpetration of a scheme to defraud their customers. http://neworleans.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/no111809a.htm 476D52D9-2898-41B9-B1ED-C33EEBDA50EC Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:58:30 -0500 Allan Edward Patrick, of Rutland, Vermont, was sentenced to 151 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to charges that he produced child pornography at his residence. http://albany.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/alfo112009.htm 510353DA-11D1-4623-AAC5-3B4D6F7CED2F Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:54:16 -0500 Charles W. McCall, the former chairman of McKessonHBOC, was convicted in San Francisco of four counts of securities fraud and one count of circumventing internal accounting controls at a public company. As a result of his actions, defrauded investors lost more than $8 billion. http://sanfrancisco.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/sf111909b.htm CE822957-500B-4EA8-972F-B3A620A36B4E Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:39:28 -0500 Pavel Ivanovich Lazarenko, the former prime minister of Ukraine, was sentenced in San Francisco to 97 months in prison, for his role in laundering $30 million of extortion proceeds. http://sanfrancisco.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/sf111909a.htm FD4A7FC4-0548-4586-BB8C-7413B4D90C60 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:35:35 -0500 Ethan Farid Jinian, of San Francisco, was indicted on 14 counts of wire fraud in connection with his alleged embezzlement of more than $1 million from Bricsnet FM America Inc., where he served as CEO. http://sanfrancisco.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/sf111909.htm 007F634B-7E31-4866-86BE-A25F4E0D46BF Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:33:48 -0500 Godwin Asifo, of Woodbridge, Virginia, was sentenced to 57 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for running a mortgage fraud scheme that resulted in the foreclosure of at least three homes in northern Virginia. He was also ordered to pay $546,685.20 in restitution. http://washingtondc.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/wfo112009.htm C511C50C-0798-4EE6-8E92-89A07991E968 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:27:41 -0500