Press Releases
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October 2008 | |||
October 6, 2008 |
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Digna Roldan Garrett | Guilty Plea | Five counts of filing a false tax return | |
October 2, 2008 |
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Bonnie Arnel | Barred | Preparing federal income tax returns for others | |
October 2, 2008 |
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Cristina L. Warthen | Charged | One count of tax evasion | |
September 2008 | |||
September 26, 2008 |
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Rebecca Solomon, Terry Solomon | Guilty Plea | Conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering | |
September 26, 2008 |
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Charles A. Phillips, Jr. | Sentenced | Ten years in prison | |
September 24, 2008 |
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Daniel King | Sentenced | Eighteen months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release | |
September 23, 2008 |
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David John | Sentenced | Five months in prison and five months in home detention | |
September 19, 2008 |
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Carlos D. Araiza | Sentenced | Sixty months imprisonment | |
September 19, 2008 |
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Alonso Lopez, Neil Jasso, David Bovino, Sheila Songer | Guilty Plea | Conspiracy and Firearms Trafficking charges | |
September 16, 2008 |
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Paris Moffett | Guilty Plea | Drug and firearms charges | |
September 15, 2008 |
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Devon Craft | Sentenced | Thirty months in prison | |
September 4, 2008 |
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Charles “Eddy” Lepp | Convicted | Conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and cultivation of more than1000 marijuana plants | |
September 4, 2008 |
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David Nieves | Guilty Plea | Possession with intent to distribute over half a kilogram of cocaine | |
September 4, 2008 |
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Remsen McGinnis Benedict | Guilty Plea | Receipt of Child Pornography | |
August 2008 | |||
August 29, 2008 |
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Leonard B. Auerbach | Guilty Plea | Producing child pornography | |
August 29, 2008 |
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James Earl Kelley | Sentenced | Ten years in prison for selling crack cocaine | |
August 28, 2008 |
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Chad A. Holste | Guilty Plea | Transportation and possession of child pornography | |
August 28, 2008 |
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Hakeem A. Perry | Sentenced | Twenty-seven months in prison for assaulting a Muni bus driver on November 7, 2007 | |
August 28, 2008 |
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Wassim Mohammad Azizi | Sentenced | Ten months in prison for illegally demolishing a building that contained significant amounts of asbestos | |
August 25, 2008 |
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Arthur Eli Cheney | Guilty Plea | Robbing twenty banks that were federally insured | |
August 11, 2008 |
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Nicki Phung | Sentenced | Six months home confinement and ordered to pay $5,000 in restitution to a non-profit organization that protects great cats, including tigers throughout the world | |
August 7, 2008 |
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Jose Cortez Zendejas, Jazmin Marie Rosel | Indicted | Conspiracy to Commit Armed Bank Robbery, Armed Bank Robbery, and Aiding and Abetting Armed Bank Robbery | |
August 1, 2008 |
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Moses Oladele Adeyemo | Sentenced | Six months custody, five years probation and ordered to pay $10,000 in restitution | |
August 1, 2008 |
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Gary Wayne Ross | Convicted | Attempted online solicitation of a minor | |
July 2008 | |||
July 28, 2008 |
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Edith Nelson, Ronald Nelson, Nelda Asuncion, and Cristeta Lagarejos | Indicted | Charges relating to an alleged far-reaching mortgage loan fraud scheme, income tax evasion, and harboring illegal aliens | |
July 25, 2008 |
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Charles Edward Pullen | Guilty Plea | One count of willfully preparing a false U.S. Individual Income Tax Return, Form 1040 | |
July 23, 2008 |
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Fleet Management Limited | Indicted | Negligently causing the discharge of 50,000 gallons of oil from the Cosco Busan, and falsifying documents after the crash to cover-up the company’s negligence | |
July 21, 2008 |
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Gilbert Haro | Guilty Plea | Receipt of Child Pornography | |
July 21, 2008 |
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Dominic Chang | Sentenced | Four years of probation, including four months of community confinement and eight months of home confinement, a $1,500 fine and $163,498 in restitution | |
July 17, 2008 |
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Mark First | Sentenced | Three years in prison | |
July 16, 2008 |
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Sixteen individuals | Indicted | Conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute ecstasy | |
July 11, 2008 |
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Atul Malhotra | Guilty Plea | Stealing trade secrets | |
July 10, 2008 |
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Troy M. Urie | Sentenced | Eighty-seven months in prison and ordered to pay a total of $732,595 | |
July 9, 2008 |
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Casilda Shipping, Ltd, Genesis Seatrading Corporation, Mr. Pantelis Thomas | Indicted | Conspiracy to violate the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS), substantive violations of APPS, false statements made to the Coast Guard, and the falsification of records | |
July 8, 2008 |
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Robert Thomas Doyle, Fatai Onevai | Guilty Plea, Sentenced | Preparing false tax returns on behalf of their clients. Mr. Onevai was sentenced and will serve 18 months in prison | |
July 2, 2008 |
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John Parola | Indicted | One count of Receipt of Child Pornography and one count of Possession of Child Pornography | |
July 2, 2008 |
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Christopher Burt Wiltsee | Sentenced | Sixty months in federal prison, $25,000 fine, supervised release for seven years, and registration as a sex offender | |
June 2008 | |||
June 27, 2008 |
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Nathan Charles Carey | Sentenced | Seventy-eight months imprisonment | |
June 27, 2008 |
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Armond Tennyson Tollete | Sentenced | Thirty months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay restitution to Medicare amounting to $909,000 | |
June 24, 2008 |
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Michael Largent | Charged | One count of wire fraud in connection with the Google Checkout program | |
June 24, 2008 |
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Richard Lynn Wheat | Guilty Plea | Wire fraud | |
June 23, 2008 |
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Charles A. Phillips | Guilty Plea | Distributing methamphetamine in exchange for $10,000 | |
June 23, 2008 |
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Fredrick Green | Sentenced | One-year probation | |
June 20, 2008 |
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17 defendants | Indicted | Large scale fencing operation to buy and sell over-the-counter health and beauty products and to launder the proceeds through complex financial transactions | |
June 18, 2008 |
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Melvin Parker, Jr. | Sentenced | 130 months imprisonment for Sex Trafficking of a Minor | |
June 18, 2008 |
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Howe Electric Inc. | Guilty Plea | Two separate conspiracies to rig bids to two Fresno-area schools | |
June 18, 2008 |
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Xiaodong Sheldon Meng | Sentenced | Twenty-four months in prison, a three-year term of supervised release following his prison term, pay a fine of $10,000, and forfeit computer equipment seized in the case | |
June 18, 2008 |
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North East Medical Services | Settlement | $4,964,646 to settle allegations that it submitted false claims to the California Medicaid Program | |
June 16, 2008 |
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Mohammad Yousuf Chaudhry | Convicted | Filing false tax returns, conspiracy, and structuring currency transactions to evade a reporting requirement | |
June 9, 2008 |
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Diana Hojsak | Convicted | Tax evasion and filing false tax returns for 2000 and 2001 | |
May 2008 | |||
May 30, 2008 |
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Mark Allen Davis | Sentenced | Eighty-one months in prison followed by three years of supervised release | |
May 30, 2008 |
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Aquil H. Peterson, Raymon D. Hill, Lester Wayne Hogan, Steven Wilson, Mister Meilleur | Sentenced | 22, 17, 12, 11, and 7 years | |
May 29, 2008 |
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Trevor Graham | Convicted | Lying when he stated that he had not had contact with a steroids dealer since 1997 | |
May 23, 2008 |
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Nancy Tan Pua | Sentenced | Thirty-four months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release | |
May 22, 2008 |
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Ty Wesley Ryan | Indicted | Three counts of armed bank robbery and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm | |
May 21, 2008 |
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National Missing Children’s Day | Remarks | National missing children's day ceremony | |
May 21, 2008 |
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National Missing Children’s Day | Commemorated | Ceremony that honored law enforcement officers and citizens from across the country for their commitment to recovering missing children and combating child exploitation | |
May 19, 2008 |
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Gordon Jensen | Sentenced | Sixty-four months in federal prison, five-year term of supervised release following his release from prison, and registration as a sex offender | |
May 19, 2008 |
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Timothy Craig | Indicted | One count of Receipt of Child Pornography and one count of Possession of Child Pornography | |
May 14, 2008 |
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Solicitor General Paul D. Clement | Resigning | June 2, 2008 | |
May 14, 2008 |
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Wassim Mohammad Azizi | Convicted | Three felony counts of violating the Clean Air Act | |
May 14, 2008 |
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Chirayu Patel, William Veyna | Sentenced | Patel was sentenced to a term of 18 months in prison and Veyna to 15 months in prison | |
May 12, 2008 |
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John Carvahlo Diniz | Convicted | Transporting a minor from Portugal to the United States for sexual purposes and also of enticing the same minor to travel internationally for sex | |
May 9, 2008 |
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Dr. Bruce Barker | Sentenced | Six months in prison, three years of supervised release, six months in home detention, $35,000 fine. |
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May 9, 2008 |
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Yacov “Jacob” Yida | Sentenced | 121 months’ imprisonment | |
May 8, 2008 |
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Bernard V. Ward | Guilty Plea | One count of distributing child pornography via the Internet | |
May 1, 2008 |
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Lindsay Bertelson | Sentenced | Twelve months in prison and ordered to pay $60,219 in restitution | |
April 2008 | |||
April 29, 2008 |
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Ricardo Saez | Convicted | Distribution of methamphetamine | |
April 29, 2008 |
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David M. Fish | Sentenced | Thirty months in prison, a three year term of supervised release following his release from prison, a mandatory special assessment of $500, and the forfeiture of computer and other equipment used in committing the copyright offenses | |
April 29, 2008 |
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Renato Gonzales Quiazon | Sentenced | Three years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release | |
April 24, 2008 |
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Annemarie Conroy | Appointed | Law Enforcement Coordinator for the United States Attorney’s Office, Northern District of California | |
April 23, 2008 |
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Scot Allan Beane | Charged | One count of escape from custody and three counts of bank robbery | |
April 23, 2008 |
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Cheryl Hernandez Camus | Indicted | Mail and wire fraud in connection with a Ponzi scheme | |
April 22, 2008 |
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John Joseph Cota | Indicted | Making false statements to the Coast Guard concerning his medications and medical conditions in 2006 and 2007 | |
April 22, 2008 |
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Sharlene P. Abrams | Indicted | Tax evasion and aiding in the preparation of false tax returns related to a stock options backdating scheme | |
April 21, 2008 |
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Kenneth Eugene Holloway | Sentenced | Thirteen years in prison followed by five years of supervised release | |
April 21, 2008 |
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Joseph Lawrence Williams, Keith Aaron Vann, William Joseph Little, Jr. | Charged | Conspiring to commit mail fraud and wire fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering | |
April 18, 2008 |
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Nicki Phung, Steven Tieu | Guilty Plea | Illegally importing a real mounted stuffed tiger from Vietnam | |
April 17, 2008 |
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Leonard B. Auerbach | Charged | Traveling internationally for the purpose of engaging in sexual acts with a minor (also known as “child sex tourism”), in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2423(b), and transporting and possessing child pornography, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252A | |
April 14, 2008 |
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Julio Lopez Morales | Guilty Plea | Conspiring to commit hostage taking | |
April 14, 2008 |
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Warren Steven Smith | Sentenced | Twelve years in prison for selling crack cocaine | |
April 14, 2008 |
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David Charles Bailey | Sentenced | 151 months imprisonment, 3 years of supervised release, and a $200 special assessment | |
April 10, 2008 |
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Luke D. Brugnara | Charged | Four counts of “taking” steelhead trout, a listed threatened species on the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”), and two counts of making a false statement in the course of the investigation | |
April 10, 2008 |
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Bobby Ray Williams, Michael Green Johnson, Stephen Louis Montgomery, Leonard Dan Gordon | Sentenced | Williams: one hundred and thirty months prison, five years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment Johnson: one hundred and twenty months prison, five years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment Montgomery: ninety-six months prison, one year of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment Gordon: eighty-four months prison, four years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment |
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April 09, 2008 |
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Dr. Ramon Scruggs, Allan Danto, and Heidi MacPherson | Charged | Counts of conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and money laundering. In addition, Dr. Scruggs is also charged with four counts of distribution of anabolic steroids and four counts of misbranding drugs held for sale with intent to defraud and mislead | |
April 09, 2008 |
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Carlos D. Araiza | Charged | One count of receiving child pornography in or about January 2005, and one count of possessing child pornography in or about March 2005 | |
April 09, 2008 |
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Various | Charged | Misrepresentations of identity on applications for United States passports | |
April 04, 2008 |
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Tammy Thomas | Convicted | Three counts of making false declarations before the grand jury and one count of obstruction of justice | |
April 04, 2008 |
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Luke D. Brugnara | Indicted | Filing false tax returns | |
April 02, 2008 |
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Clifford Harris | Sentenced | 151 months in prison, and supervised release for a period of three years | |
March 2008 | |||
March 27, 2008 |
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Ramon Reynoso | Sentenced | Two years in federal prison and ordered to pay a $50,000 fine and $1,162,222 in restitution | |
March 27, 2008 |
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Michael J. Martin | Guilty Plea | Conspiracy to manufacture and to distribute a mixture containing a detectable amount of marijuana | |
March 27, 2008 |
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Suzie Moy Yuen | Sentenced | Twenty months imprisonment, followed by three years supervised release, and ordered to pay restitution of $182,000 | |
March 27, 2008 |
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Mark First | Guilty Plea | One count of possessing images of child pornography | |
March 26, 2008 |
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Mark Charles Zelinsky | Sentenced | Three years in prison | |
March 26, 2008 |
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Danny Yep | Sentenced | Two months in prison, four months of home confinement | |
March 25, 2008 |
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Aurora Cahayag Cabalar | Guilty Plea | Three counts of filing a false tax return | |
March 21, 2008 |
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Nathan Charles Carey | Guilty Plea | Possessing approximately seventy-three videos and fourteen still images on his computer | |
March 20, 2008 |
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Christopher Burt Wiltsee | Guilty Plea | Possessing child pornography on a government computer | |
March 20, 2008 |
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Andrew Thomas Russo | Guilty Plea | Conspiring to illegally distribute controlled substances, including phentermine | |
March 20, 2008 |
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Shiu Chau Wang | Sentenced | Restitution in the amount of $239,450 | |
March 20, 2008 |
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Dale Scott Heineman, Kurt F. Johnson | Sentenced | Heineman: 21 years, 8 months imprisonment Johnson: 25 years imprisonment |
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March 19, 2008 |
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Stephanie Jensen | Sentenced | Four months in prison and ordered to pay a $1,250,000 fine stemming from her fraudulent backdating of stock options at Brocade | |
March 18, 2008 |
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W. Scott Harkonen | Indicted | Wire fraud and felony Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act charges for his role in the creation and dissemination of false and misleading information about the efficacy of InterMune’s drug Actimmune (Interferon gamma-1b) as a treatment for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis | |
March 17, 2008 |
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John Joseph Cota | Charged | Violations of the Clean Water Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act | |
March 11, 2008 |
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Inn-Chung Chen | Sentenced | Five years probation, reside in a community confinement facility for four months, four months of home detention with electronic monitoring, and a $40,000 fine | |
March 11, 2008 |
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Richard Williams, Rafael Miranda | Sentenced | Five years prison, three years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment | |
March 11, 2008 |
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Sherry Gehrung | Arraigned | Wire fraud charge alleging that she embezzled money from her former employer, Alza Corporation | |
March 03, 2008 |
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Frederick Lamar Lindsey | Sentenced | Fourteen months in prison followed by three years of supervised release | |
February 2008 | |||
February 29, 2008 |
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Jorge Lopez | Sentenced | Ninety-six months in prison and three years supervised release | |
February 28, 2008 |
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Duc Dien Tran Nguyen | Sentenced | Twelve years, nine months in prison for robbery and use of a firearm during a crime of violence | |
February 27, 2008 |
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Fourteen individuals | Indictment | Conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine | |
February 27, 2008 |
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Donald Ray Williams | Arraigned | The July 1, 2007 fire that razed a Walgreen’s drug store in Palo Alto | |
February 26, 2008 |
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Lawrence Murphy | Guilty Plea | Mail fraud for inflating his fire insurance claim following an unexplained fire that destroyed his restaurant in Alameda, California, in January 2003 | |
February 25, 2008 |
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Roger Lexin Mai | Sentenced | Two years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution of $57,481 | |
February 25, 2008 |
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Ernst John Rohde | Guilty Plea | Receiving images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct | |
February 21, 2008 |
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Chuka Ogele | Sentenced | Thirty-seven months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release | |
February 21, 2008 |
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Kenneth Gerald Bordewick | Convicted | Mail fraud and corruptly obstructing or impeding the due administration of the tax laws | |
February 19, 2008 |
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Kenneth Gibson | Sentenced | Eleven years in prison | |
February 13, 2008 |
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Simon Yuan | Sentenced | Four months in prison and four months home confinement followed by one year of supervised release and ordered to pay $25,424 in restitution | |
February 11, 2008 |
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Chad A. Holste | Indicted | Possession and transportation of child pornography | |
February 8, 2008 |
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Kirk J. Radomski | Sentenced | Five years probation, an $18,575 fine, and a $200 special assessment | |
February 8, 2008 |
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Gordon Jensen | Guilty Plea | One count of possessing images of child pornography | |
February 5, 2008 |
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Dmitir Glaznikov, Maxim Leontev | Indicted | Obtaining account information stolen from financial institutions, creating unauthorized access devices encoded with the stolen account information, and making unauthorized withdrawals from ATMs in San Francisco with the access devices | |
February 1, 2008 |
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Joshua L. Hedlund | Convicted | Using a Berkeley warehouse for the manufacture of marijuana and to laundering the proceeds of that illegal marijuana grow | |
February 1, 2008 |
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Frank J. Garza, Jr. | Sentenced | Thirty months in prison followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution of $2,850,861.55 | |
February 1, 2008 |
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Dominic Chang | Guilty Plea | Three counts of tax evasion | |
January 2008 | |||
January 28, 2008 |
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Frederick Lim Johnson | Sentenced | Twenty-two years and seven months in prison for illegally possessing a firearm, and for violating the terms of his supervised release | |
January 24, 2008 |
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Remsen Benedict | Indicted | One count of Receipt of Child Pornography and one count of Possession of Child Pornography | |
January 24, 2008 |
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Daniel Armstrong | Sentenced | Fifty-seven months imprisonment, a fine of $5,000, restitution in the amount of $9,000, and a $100 special assessment | |
January 18, 2008 |
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Dana Stubblefield | Guilty Plea | Making false statements to federal investigators in the Balco steroids distribution investigation | |
January 17, 2008 |
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Amit Ezyoni, Asaf Nass, Limor Gefen, Eli Kaupp, Daniel Rangel, Barak Braunshtain, Randy Goldberg, Brandy Aycock, David Lamondin, Matthew Sandomir, Stuart Sheinfeld, Carol Hauessler, Christopher Sariol, Eduardo Subirats |
Charged | Defrauding, and extorting fees from, hundreds of moving customers throughout the United States | |
January 17, 2008 |
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Charles Edward Pullen, Lydia Hernandez, Robert Thomas Doyle, Fatai Onevai | Charged | Pullen: Twenty-five counts of willfully preparing false U.S. Individual Income Tax Returns Hernandez: Three counts of tax evasion and 39 counts of willfully preparing false and fraudulent U.S. Individual Income Tax Returns Doyle: Thirty-four counts of filing false claims against the United States by preparing U.S. Individual Income Tax Returns Onevai: Thirty-seven counts of preparing false and fraudulent U.S. Individual Income Tax Returns |
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January 17, 2008 |
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Kirby Ward Blackmon | Sentenced | Twenty-four months imprisonment, 3 years of supervised release, a $5,000 fine, and a $200 special assessment | |
January 16, 2008 |
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Gregory L. Reyes | Sentenced | Twenty-one months in prison and ordered to pay a $15 million fine for securities fraud stemming from his scheme to backdate stock options at Brocade | |
January 11, 2008 |
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Marion Jones-Thompson | Sentenced | Six months imprisonment for making false statements in connection with two separate federal investigations | |
January 10, 2008 |
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Hesham Badawi | Charged | Operating an illegal money transmitting business | |
January 10, 2008 |
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William Lester Johnsen | Charged | Unlawfully taking a marine mammal | |
January 9, 2008 |
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Lawrence E. Crayton III | Indicted | Theft Concerning Programs Receiving Federal Funds | |
January 9, 2008 |
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Charles Levi Lytle | Guilty Plea | Mail fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering | |
January 8, 2008 |
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Stefan Wathne | Indicted | One count of conspiring to launder money |