The suspects were arrested this morning on wire fraud and conspiracy charges for conspiring to provide confidential information, including material, nonpublic information to clients, including hedge funds. The FBI is seeking information from consumers who believe that they have been improperly charged on their telephone bill for services neither ordered nor authorized related to Alternate Billing Corp., 24078 Greenway Road, Forest Lake, Minnesota, or any of its affiliated companies or services listed below. A Bridgeport, Conn., man was sentenced yesterday in federal court for armed bank robbery and attempted armed bank robbery. A tax revenue agent with the IRS was sentenced for soliciting and receiving a $9,700 bribe. United States District Court Judge Paul A. Magnuson sentenced Roger Anthony Coombs, age 41, of Circle Pines, to 33 months in federal prison on one count of soliciting and agreeing to receive a bribe. Victor Flores, who fled the country before he was to face trial in 2001 on cocaine charges related to a Naco, Arizona drug tunnel that was used to smuggle 20 tons of cocaine from its inception in 1996 until May 1999 when the tunnel was discovered, was extradited to the U.S. from Hermosillo, Mexico. Flores is charged in seven counts of the indictment with a variety of drug and gun violations, and he is alleged to have possessed with intent to distribute over 6,660 pounds of cocaine. An additional count alleges that he possessed three fully automatic machine guns to guard the load. The men who call themselves the Three Hebrew Boys--Tony Pough, Joseph Brunson, and Timothy McQueen, all of Columbia, South Carolina--were sentenced to lengthy prison terms for masterminding a dubious FOREX investment program that, in reality, was an $82 million Ponzi scheme. Abdul Kadir, a former member of the Guyanese parliament, was sentenced to life in prison for conspiring to attack John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York by exploding fuel tanks and the fuel pipeline under the airport. Kadir and his coconspirators believed their attack would cause extensive damage to the airport and to the New York economy, as well as the loss of numerous lives. Pedro Espada, Jr., a New York State Senator for the 33rd Senatorial District in the Bronx, New York, and his son, Pedro Gautier Espada, were indicted on five counts of embezzlement from a nonprofit health care network receiving federal funding, and one count of conspiracy. The total amount allegedly embezzled by the defendants exceeded $500,000. David Michael Fagerness, of Georgia, pled guilty in Los Angeles, California to transporting child pornography using a secret Internet bulletin board that allowed approximately three dozen members to trade thousands of images and videos of child pornography depicting young boys in sexually explicit situations. His guilty plea is the result of an international investigation into the "Lost Boy" online bulletin board. Federal authorities, working in conjunction with a coalition of international law enforcement agencies, shut down the Lost Boy bulletin board approximately two years ago. Tanja Anamary Nijmeijer, a Dutch national who moved to Colombia and joined the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in 2002, and 17 other members of the FARC designated foreign terrorist organization were indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., on seven counts of terrorism and weapons charges arising out of their participation in the hostage-taking of three American citizens in the Republic of Colombia. Donald Wayne George, of Oroville, Washington, was sentenced in Portland, Oregon to 25 years in prison for producing child pornography involving his 4-year-old step-granddaughter. Charles Winitch, a former financial adviser at a large wealth management firm in Manhattan, pled guilty to participating in a scheme to defraud clients of that firm by engaging in unauthorized and inappropriate trading in certain accounts in order to obtain large commissions. Justin Laurin Prather, of Lubbock, Texas, a former employee of CitiCapital Commercial Corporation and senior vice president of GE Capital Commercial, Inc., was sentenced to more than 10 years in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $17.4 million in restitution for running three separate fraud schemes.  |
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