Washington (CNN)The State Department lacks an ability to police its own staff in matters of human trafficking despite its strong condemnation of the practice, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Friday.
In a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, cited allegations from whistleblowers, and a report from the State Department’s own Office of Inspector General this month that said the department is not in a position to completely hold its own employees accountable for human trafficking violations, or to ensure policies are understood and followed.
TRENTON Vladimir Eydelman, 43, a stockbroker formerly of Colts Neck, admitted in federal court Wednesday in participating in a five-year trading scheme in which he used stolen insider information from the office of a prominent international law firm to trade, using tactics that involved writing information on napkins and then chewing the napkins to destroy the evidence.
The scheme yielded net profits of more than $5.6 million, according to the office of U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman.
Frank Abagnale is best known for being portrayed by actor Leonardo DiCaprio in the 2002 Steven Spielberg film “Catch Me If You Can.”
But the one-time forger, check-bouncer and workplace infiltrator who left prison to share his expertise with the FBI is also a motivational speaker and cybersecurity adviser.
A local attorney admitted Tuesday that he took part in an unlicensed money transmitting business that illegally conducted nearly $12 million worth of international financial transactions in violation of the Bank Secrecy Act.
In his plea agreement, attorney Richard Medina admitted that he was involved in the operation of a commercial enterprise that collected cash from clients in the United States and transferred the money to points around the world without registering the business with the Secretary of the Treasury, as required by law.
Medina, 39, also pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge. His sentencing is set for Dec. 7.
RICHMOND — A Fredericksburg man accused of illegally trafficking nearly $14 million in cigarettes has pleaded guilty to money laundering conspiracy.
The U.S. attorney’s office says 33-year-old Steven Chen entered his plea Tuesday in federal court in Richmond. Chen faces a maximum of five years in prison at his sentencing Dec. 18.
Benjamin Wey is worried the whole waging a relentless campaign to have sex with an intern/firing her/writing on a website he owns called The Blot Magazine ‘that she’s a prostitute, that she hangs out with cocaine dealers’ thing is going to come back to haunt him.
The chairman of a Boston-based biomedical company was arrested Tuesday morning on charges arising out of his participation in a scheme to defraud the market for the publicly traded stock of the company, according to U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz.
Edward Withrow, 51, of Malibu, California, was charged in U.S. District Court in Boston with one count of conspiracy, one count of securities fraud, two counts of wire fraud, and two counts of making false statements.
A Houston County judge sentenced 66-year-old Olivia Reynolds to serve a five-year split with two years to serve in prison for her role in a vote fraud inquiry.
The split sentence means that Reynolds will serve two years in prison and will not be eligible for early release.
CLEVELAND – The wife of a Cleveland firefighter conspired with a group of young men to kill her husband so she could collect on a life insurance policy and cover up financial fraud she committed in her husband’s name, prosecutors said Monday.
Uloma Walker-Curry, 44, was indicted on aggravated murder, conspiracy and felonious assault charges in the November 2013 slaying of fire Lt. William Walker, 45, the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office announced. He was shot to death in the driveway of his Cleveland home. Chad Padgett, 21, Christopher Hein, 22, and Ryan Dorty, 23, were indicted on the same charges.
An information technology specialist who was involved in examining and collecting computer forensics evidence for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’sOffice of the Inspector General was indicted on six counts of using his position to commit fraud.
Byron Gorman of St. Joseph was assigned to the Heart of America Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory in Kansas City.
