For a young man of 23 from an impoverished background, Zouhar would seem to have done well. He has bought land, a house for his family, and a new car for himself. This, however, is a rather modest reflection of his earnings, which are no less than $200,000 (£129,000) a month.
Zouhar is a trafficker of humans, taking advantage of the one trade that is still blossoming as Libya continues to fracture. Around 5,000 migrants were rescued in the Mediterranean in the last three days alone; 95,000 have made the crossing so far this year; and more than 2,000 have died while trying to do so. But the danger has not put off the thousands heading for the main embarkation points for Europe.
Citing people familiar with the matter, the newspaper said U.S. prosecutors in New York are considering other possible charges and have not made a final decision. Authorities hope to reach a settlement with the automaker by the end of summer or early fall, the WSJ reported.
Before the GM shareholders’ meeting on Tuesday, Chief Executive Officer Mary Barra said the automaker has “cooperated fully” with prosecutors and any settlement would be “on their timeline.” She did not comment in detail on the report.
Reuters could not immediately confirm the Wall Street Journal report. A U.S. Department of Justice spokesman declined to comment.
WICHITA, Kan. — A judge sentenced a former Pittsburg State University professor to 18 months in a federal prison Monday on convictions for wire fraud and money laundering related to his management of a graduate student exchange program.
U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren assessed Michael Muoghalu the prison term at a sentencing hearing in federal court in Wichita and ordered him to pay the university $148,430 in restitution.
Muoghalu, 61, pleaded guilty to the offenses March 2 in a plea agreement with the U.S. attorney’s office in Wichita.
The former director of the business administration program at PSU managed a graduate student exchange program at the university that recruited Nigerian students interested in obtaining a master’s degree in business administration.
According to a federal grand jury indictment handed up in December of last year, Muoghalu and an unnamed associate in Nigeria defrauded the university between August 2006 and January 2014 by creating fictitious documents representing that certain Nigerian students had completed undergraduate work and were eligible for the program.
On Friday, June 5, 2015, a business partner that Kagman High School works with on a regular basis, called to verify if KHS received a solicited donation for graduation.
“They informed us that someone posing as one of our counselors was soliciting for graduation support in the form of cash donations. The imposer did not leave any contact information and said they would be the one to call for follow up. The imposer then called to inform the business that a student would pick up the donation. The person who picked up the donation was a male, short in stature, wearing a hat and shades in his early 20s with a small mustache.”
Four members of a Texas family have been arrested on suspicion of beating a 14-year-old relative to induce an abortion two years ago after she had been raped by a member of the family, Dallas police said on Wednesday.
Cedric Jones, 27; Sharon Jones, 45; Cecila McDonald, 25; and Lonnell McDonald, 27, were arrested on Tuesday and charged with engaging in organized criminal activity, according to online jail records.
The girl was about eight months pregnant when the four beat her for six hours, repeatedly kicking her in the abdomen, police said. The Dallas Morning News said the teenager gave birth to a stillborn baby hours later. The body was thought to have been burned in a charcoal grill and buried at an unknown location, police said.
AUSTIN (KXAN) — A former Internal Revenue Service worker pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges in connection with a stolen identity refund fraud scheme. Police said Kenneth Goheen, 57, admitted to obtaining personal information from Individual Tax Identification Number applicants and using it to file more than 50 fraudulent tax returns between March 2013 and January 2015.
A new poll out Wednesday shows that New Yorkers are fed up with corruption in Albany and believe the state should simply start with a clean slate of lawmakers.
A whopping 55% of those surveyed in a Quinnipiac University poll said “all elected officials” in Albany should be voted out of office so a group of uncorrupted, fresh faces can take over.
Only 28% disagreed and said that the current crowd is capable of ending political corruption in Albany.
“Can Albany fix itself? A lot of New Yorkers don’t think so,”said Maurice Carroll, Quinnipiac poll assistant director.
Jefferson County District Attorney Brandon Falls announced information in an ongoing investigation Wednesday.
257 arrest warrants were issued Wednesday in connection with fraudulently purchased EBT cards. According to a press release, defendants used the cards to purchase products to stock their stores. Several defendants also selling stolen property at inflated prices.
A Boston police officer has shot and killed a Massachusetts man who had been under surveillance by the FBI‘s Joint Terrorism Task Force, ABC News has learned.
The FBI had been tracking 26-year-old Usaama Rahim for several weeks, and authorities are looking into whether he may have been radicalized by ISIS propaganda online, law enforcement sources said.
JEFFERSON CITY – A former IRS employee in St. Louis pleaded guilty to charges in connection to a $326,000 tax fraud scheme.
Demetria Brown, 38, pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. She admitted to filing more than 350 false tax returns and using stolen identities while working for the IRS from 2008 to 2011. Brown filed more than 120 fraudulent federal tax returns, totaling about $211,000, and at least 236 fraudulent state tax returns, totaling about $115,000.
