Press Releases
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May 2009 | |||
May 07, 2009 |
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Qing Song | Guilty Plea | One felony count of violating the Lacey Act | |
May 05, 2009 |
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Philip Gabriel Pettersson | Indicted | Intrusion and trade secret theft charges | |
May 01, 2009 |
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Elisa M. Lipkins | Guilty Plea | Robbing $7,020 from the Bank of America branch in San Francisco’s Laurel Village | |
May 01, 2009 |
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Paul Hirsohn | Sentenced | Ninety-seven months in prison and ordered to pay a $25,000 fine | |
May 01, 2009 |
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Diana Hojsak | Sentenced | Twenty-seven months in prison and ordered to pay $557,363 in restitution | |
April 2009 | |||
April 30, 2009 |
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Maher Fayez Kara, Mounir Fayez Kara, Emile Youssef Jilwan | Indicted | Securities fraud and conspiracy relating to an insider trading scheme | |
April 29, 2009 |
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Peter Franklin Klein | Indicted | Eleven counts of armed bank robbery | |
April 28, 2009 |
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Jeremy Esperante | Sentenced | Fourteen years in prison for distributing child pornography | |
April 28, 2009 |
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Dr. Sydney Shaber | Guilty Plea | Unlawfully converting employee pension funds | |
April 27, 2009 |
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James Linville | Sentenced | Forty-five months in prison for assuming the identity of another person and possessing more than 15 credit cards in that person’s name | |
April 22, 2009 |
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Fritz Brunz | Guilty Plea | One count of Introducing Misbranded Drugs into Interstate Commerce | |
April 10, 2009 |
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Deisy Valdovinos Pacheco | Indicted | Two counts of distributing controlled substances | |
April 10, 2009 |
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Michael A. Daly | Guilty Plea | Defrauding Cisco Systems, Inc. of computer networking equipment and engaging in money laundering | |
April 8, 2009 |
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Fu-Tain Lu | Indicted | Conspired to violate United States export regulations | |
April 3, 2009 |
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Edmund Jew | Sentenced | Sixty-four months in prison for bribery, extortion, and mail fraud by deprivation of honest services | |
March 2009 | |||
March 27, 2009 |
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Qing Song | Indicted | Illegal trade of endangered sea turtle parts | |
March 25, 2009 |
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Maurice Allen | Sentenced | Fifteen years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm | |
March 24, 2009 |
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David Scott Cacchione | Charged | One count of aiding and abetting securities fraud | |
March 20, 2009 |
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Carlos Coronado, Jerry Kahue, David Siharath | Sentenced | One year and one day in prison and ordered him to pay $496,055 to his former employer Systron Donner and $485,000 to the Internal Revenue Service,one year home confinement and ordered him to pay $80,000 to his former employer Systron Donner and $16,221 to the Internal Revenue Service,three years probation and ordered him to pay $18,500 to his former employer Systron Donner | |
March 18, 2009 |
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David Marion Simcho | Sentenced | Twenty-seven months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $111,769 | |
March 18, 2009 |
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Albert Ke-Jeng Hu | Arrested | Related to six counts of wire fraud | |
March 18, 2009 |
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Luong Hue Tieu | Sentenced | Eighty months of imprisonment for attempting to obstruct commerce and to a consecutive seven months of imprisonment for failure to appear for sentencing | |
March 17, 2009 |
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Nwadinaume Uba | Guilty Plea | Three counts of filing a false tax return | |
March 16, 2009 |
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Michael Burge | Guilty Plea | Nine counts of unarmed bank robbery | |
March 13, 2009 |
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Edward S. Ehee | Guilty Plea | Wire fraud, tax evasion and making and subscribing a false tax return | |
March 13, 2009 |
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Yan Ru Chu | Sentenced | Twenty-four months imprisonment, and three years probation | |
March 13, 2009 |
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Robert Terrell Pleasant | Sentenced | Seventy-seven months in prison for selling crack cocaine | |
March 12, 2009 |
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San Mateo County | Settlement | $6.8 million to resolve allegations that the San Mateo Medical Center submitted false claims to the United States | |
March 11, 2009 |
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J. Douglas Wilson, Brad Wiegmann | Appointed | Task forces calling for a review of the government’s interrogation and transfer policies, as well as a review of detention policy | |
March 6, 2009 |
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John Joseph Cota | Guilty Plea | Negligently causing the discharge of approximately 53,000 gallons of oil into San Francisco Bay in violation of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 | |
March 5, 2009 |
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David Foster Crane | Indicted | Ten counts of mail fraud and Thirteen counts of money laundering | |
March 2, 2009 |
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Anthony Vincent Piazza | Indicted | Robbing a Citibank branch | |
March 2, 2009 |
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Sefo Sagote, Angelica Sagote, Elisara Taito | Guilty Plea | Armed bank robbery of the Pacific Postal Credit Union in San Francisco | |
February 2009 | |||
February 26, 2009 |
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John Kevin Thompson | Mail fraud | ||
February 26, 2009 |
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Sixteen Individuals | Prosecuted | Federal passport offenses between December 2008 and February 2009 | |
February 25, 2009 |
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Huy Quoc Nguyen | Sentenced | Fifteen months in prison, followed by three years supervised release, and ordered him to pay restitution in the amount of $549,000 plus interest and penalties for tax evasion | |
February 25, 2009 |
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Juan Paulo Depakakibo Garcia & Ian Carl Depakakibo Garcia | Indicted | One count of conspiracy to commit bulk cash smuggling, and one count of bulk cash smuggling | |
February 24, 2009 |
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Thomas Edward Green Jr | Guilty Plea | Two felony counts of transmitting and possessing child pornography | |
February 19, 2009 |
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United States | Intervened | Suits against the drug manufacturer Scios Inc. and its parent company, Johnson & Johnson Inc | |
February 13, 2009 |
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APL Limited | Agreed | Pay the government $26.3 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims to the United States in connection with contracts to transport cargo in shipping containers to support U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan | |
February 9, 2009 |
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Mabelle de la Rosa Dann | Indicted | Criminal violations of forced labor, unlawful conduct regarding documents in furtherance of servitude, visa fraud, conspiracy to commit visa fraud, and harboring an illegal alien for private financial gain | |
February 5, 2009 |
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Six individuals | Charged | Drug trafficking and firearms offenses | |
February 5, 2009 |
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Nine individuals | Charged | Multiple drug trafficking offenses | |
February 5, 2009 |
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Charles Edward Pullen | Sentenced | Twelve months and one day in prison, followed by one year of supervised release | |
February 5, 2009 |
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William “Boots” Del Biaggio, III | Guilty Plea | One count of securities fraud | |
February 5, 2009 |
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Matthew Charles Dehn | Guilty Plea | Ten bank robberies and one attempted bank robbery | |
February 3, 2009 |
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Nine organizations | Receive | Project Safe Neighborhood/Anti-Gang Initiative grants of $28,000 each | |
January 2009 | |||
January 30, 2009 |
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Mei Ling Chen | Sentenced | Thirty-three months in prison and ordered to pay a $4,300 fine and $3,200 in restitution | |
January 30, 2009 |
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County of San Mateo | Repay | More than $1.5 million for grant funds it improperly received through the Department’s Southwest Border Prosecution Initiative | |
January 29, 2009 |
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County of San Benito | Repay | $397,984 for funds it improperly requested and received through the Department’s Southwest Border Prosecution Initiative | |
January 29, 2009 |
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Fawzi M. Swalim | Sentenced | Fourteen days in prison, three years supervised release, a $5,000 fine, and restitution of $7,326 | |
January 28, 2009 |
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Abdol Hossein Novin, Zohreh Ahghari | Indicted | Four counts of filing false tax returns and two counts of assisting in the preparation of false tax returns | |
January 26, 2009 |
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Cristina L. Warthen | Guilty Plea | Tax evasion | |
January 20, 2009 |
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Robin Bruce McNabb | Indicted | Nine counts of bank fraud and nine counts of wire fraud | |
January 20, 2009 |
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Stephen Joseph Heuer | Charged | Conspiracy, distribution of HGH, distribution of misbranded drugs, and mail fraud | |
January 20, 2009 |
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Christopher Reynolds | Sentenced | Eleven years and eight months imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release | |
January 9, 2009 |
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Digna Roldan Garrett | Sentenced | Eighteen months in prison and ordered to pay a $4,000 fine and $138,784.17 in restitution | |
January 9, 2009 |
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Christian Pantages, Jamie Harmon | Indicted | Pantages on charges of conspiracy to buy stolen goods constituting an interstate shipment, and conspiracy to commit money laundering; and Harmon for conspiracy to commit money laundering and five individual counts of money laundering | |
January 8, 2009 |
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Ausaf Umar Siddiqui | Indicted | Five counts of wire fraud and four counts of money laundering |