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.
Chairman of Boston Biomedical Company Arrested for Fraud
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.
Olivia Reynolds gets two years in prison for election fraud
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.
Wife, 3 others charged with killing firefighter husband to cover fraud, collect life insurance
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.
Computer forensics employee faces fraud indictment
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.
Freeway shootings investigation continues in wake of arrests in ‘copycat crime’
PHOENIX (KPHO/KTVK) –
Three people, all 18 years old, have been arrested in what law enforcement authorities are calling a copycat crime in the wake of a string of high-profile, freeway shootings that have plagued the Phoenix area since Aug. 29.
The apprehensions came after a man and wife in their vehicle reported a car came up alongside theirs Saturday night. The three occupants used a slingshot and granite rocks to shatter the driver’s side window of the victim’s car, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said.
U.S. charges three in multibillion-dollar drug money laundering scheme
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. authorities have charged three Colombian nationals with helping to run a global money laundering network that processed billions of dollars in drug trafficking profits through bank accounts in China and Hong Kong.
The Guangzhou, China-based organization brought in at least $5 billion in drug proceeds from the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Panama, Guatemala and Canada, as well as parts of Africa and Europe, according to an indictment unsealed yesterday in federal court in Brooklyn, New York.
Fraud charges against New York-based financier Benjamin Wey over Chinese ‘reverse mergers’
A sharp-suited multimillionaire has been charged by US authorities with securities fraud over deals to list Chinese companies in New York that allegedly netted him tens of millions of US dollars in illegal profits.
Benjamin Wey, 43, the head of New York Global Group, was arrested on Thursday.
US Justice Department prosecutors charged Wey and his Swiss-based banker, Seref Dogan Erbek, with conspiracy, securities fraud and other crimes.
DPS detains two persons of interest in Phoenix Interstate 10 shootings
PHOENIX — Two people were detained Friday as persons of interest in the Interstate 10 shootings in Phoenix, the Arizona Department of Public Safety said.
The pair were detained near 107th Avenue and Indian School Road in Phoenix.
DPS said one of the pair was being questioned.
Authorities spent Friday morning responding to several calls regarding the shootings. One woman called police around dawn to say she thought her car had been shot at on Interstate 17, but a check of her car revealed no damage.
Former CIA director under Obama: ‘Someone needs to lose their job’ if reports about ISIS intelligence are true
Trouble is brewing at US Central Command (Centcom), the Pentagon’s agency covering security interests in nations throughout the Middle East and Central Asia.
According to a report from The Daily Beast, more than 50 intelligence analysts at Centcom have formally complained that reports on the Islamic State and the Nusra Front — Al Qaeda’s Syria branch — have been repeatedly altered by senior intelligence officials to fit with the Obama administration’s insistence that the US is winning the war against the two militant groups.
Former CIA deputy director Michael Morrell explained on “CBS This Morning” how serious these allegations are.
“One of the central tenants, one of the key aspects of the policymaking process in the United States is that analysts get to say what they think without any interference, without anybody changing it, so this is a very, very serious charge. I think it needs to be fully investigated,” Morrell said.