Recent FBI Convictions
FBI — Alstom Pleads Guilty and
Agrees to Pay $772 Million ...
Criminal Penalty to Resolve Foreign Bribery
Charges
Largest-Ever Foreign Bribery Resolution with the Department of Justice
U.S. Department of Justice December 22, 2014
Office of Public Affairs (202) 514-2007/TDD (202)514-1888
WASHINGTON—Alstom S.A. (Alstom), a French
power and transportation company, pleaded guilty today and agreed to pay a
$772,290,000 fine to resolve charges related to a widespread scheme involving
tens of millions of dollars in bribes in countries around the world, including
Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the Bahamas.
Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole, Assistant Attorney
General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, First
Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael J. Gustafson of the District of Connecticut and
FBI Executive Assistant Director Robert Anderson Jr. made the announcement.
Continue reading at …. http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/alstom-pleads-guilty-and-agrees-to-pay-772-million-criminal-penalty-to-resolve-foreign-bribery-charges
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FBI — Connecticut Construction Company Agrees to Pay $2.4 ...
Million, Admits Making False Statements to U.S.
U.S. Attorney’s
Office April 07, 2014
District of
Connecticut (203) 821-3700
Deirdre M.
Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut; Ted Doherty,
regional Special Agent in Charge for the U.S. Department of Transportation’s
Office of Inspector General; Patricia M. Ferrick,
Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation; and Cheryl Garcia, Acting Special Agent in Charge, U.S.
Department of Labor Office of Inspector General, Office of Labor Racketeering
and Fraud Investigations, New York Region, today announced that
Plainville-based construction company Manafort
Brothers Inc. (Manafort) will pay $2.4 million and
implement internal reforms subject to independent monitoring to resolve a
multi-agency joint criminal and civil investigation into alleged fraud
committed by the company in connection with a public works project that
commenced in 2007. As part of the resolution, Manafort
admitted that it made false statements to the United States and the State of
Connecticut Department of Transportation that disadvantaged business
enterprises (DBE) performed subcontracted work on the federally and state
funded relocation of Route 72 when, in fact, non-DBE performed the work.
The joint
investigation revealed that, in 2007, Manafort
submitted a bid to ConnDOT to serve as the general
contractor on a federally and state funded project that involved a two-mile
relocation of Route 72 in Bristol and Plainville, as well as the reconstruction
of 2.4 miles of existing secondary roads. All qualifying bids were required to
designate a percentage of work that would be performed by DBE, a requirement
designed to provide socially and economically disadvantaged contractors, who
have faced historical barriers to entry in the construction industry, with fair
opportunities to compete for federally funded work. http://www.fbi.gov/newhaven/press-releases/2014/connecticut-construction-company-agrees-to-pay-2.4-million-admits-making-false-statements-to-u.s
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Man convicted in Milford sex trafficking case - Connecticut
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Posted on January 26, 2015 | By Daniel Tepfer
blog.ctnews.com/connecticutpostings
HARTFORD – A New York man was convicted of sex trafficking two
teenaged girls at a Milford
motel.
A federal court jury Monday found Edward “Fire” Thomas, 40,
of New York,
guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of a minor and two
counts of sex trafficking of a minor. He faces a mandatory minimum term of
imprisonment of 10 years and a maximum term of imprisonment of life when he is
sentenced by U.S.
District Judge Robert N. Chatigny on April 17.
According to the evidence at trial, in September 2012,
Thomas, a New York-based pimp, answered an Internet prostitution advertisement
for a 17-year-old girl in Oregon.
Over the next month, Thomas recruited and enticed the girl to travel to New York to work for
him. The girl eventually agreed and traveled to New York with a second girl, who was 16 at
the time, using bus tickets purchased by Thomas. Thomas discussed with
both girls that they would be prostituting for him in New
York and Connecticut.
After the girls arrived in New York,
Thomas immediately took them to a hotel in Milford, where they met Kayla Walters,
Thomas’ co-defendant, and posted prostitution advertisements, the evidence
showed. In Milford,
the girls saw customers for commercial sex acts at the direction of
Thomas. Continue reading at ….. http://blog.ctnews.com/connecticutpostings/2015/01/26/man-convicted-in-milford-sex-trafficking-case/
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Broker imprisoned for mortgage fraud faces new charges ...
December 24, 2014 By Torsten
Ove / Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette
David C. Jackson, a former Monroeville mortgage broker, went
to federal prison in 2006 for his role in a mortgage fraud scheme in which he
inflated appraisals to secure loans.
But when he got out in 2009, federal authorities say, he
picked up where he left off and went back to scamming people in another loan
scheme, this time in New England.
A federal grand jury in Connecticut
indicted him this week on charges of operating an advance fee fraud scheme that
cost 20 victims about $3 million, according to prosecutors and the FBI in New Haven.
Jackson, 53, was charged Monday along with a Massachusetts
cohort, Alex Hurt, 45.
The FBI said the two of them conspired to rip off clients in
what amounted to a Ponzi scheme in which they offered
the promise of large commercial loans in exchange for upfront fees wired
directly to Jackson’s bogus company, initially established using the address of
an abandoned building in Dayton, Ohio, and later two addresses in Pittsburgh. Continue reading at… http://www.post-gazette.com/local/east/2014/12/24/Former-Monroeville-businessman-faces-more-federal-charges/stories/201412240193
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