New Jersey Couple Pleads Guilty To Immigration Fraud

July 26, 2010

Omeca Best and Jean Weche, a couple from the New York area, both pleaded guilty in Federal Court to making false statements on immigration applications and documents required by immigration laws and regulations.
Between May 2004 and August 2009, Best and Weche conspired in an immigration fraud scheme in efforts to defraud the United States Citizenship [...]

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Four Senior Managers Of GDC Acquisitions Holding And Electric Company In New York Were Charged With Bank Fraud

July 26, 2010

Courtney Dupree, Rodney Watts, Thomas Foley, and Frank Patello, the senior managers of GDC Acquisitions, LLC, were arrested and charged with bank fraud conspiracy after scheming to defraud Amalgamated Bank approximately $21 million in credit.
GDC Acquisitions, LLC is a New York based holding and electrical company.
Between January 2007 and June 2010, the four defendants had [...]

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What is the Process for Extradition to the US from Another Country?

July 26, 2010

When U.S. law enforcement agencies seek a fugitive, the government, according to the Speedy Trial Act, must try to locate the defendant’s whereabouts as soon as possible and initiate extradition proceeding by contacting the Office of International Affairs (OIA) of the Department of Justice. The OIA assists Federal and State prosecutors with the international extradition [...]

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Credit Card Fraudster Sentenced To More Than 23 Years In Prison

July 19, 2010

After several months of pleading guilty to additional charges of credit card fraud arising from his previous charge of unauthorized possession of credit card numbers, and bail jumping, Daryl Simon, a credit card forger hiding in New York City, was sentenced to approximately 24 years in prison.
Simon ran a sophisticated credit-card forgery operation using more [...]

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7th Defendant Pleads Guilty To Conspiring And Partaking In A Multimillion Union Racketeering Scheme

July 16, 2010

John Greaney, the former president and business manager of New York’s Carpenters Union, pleaded guilty to 13 counts of fraud and corruption charges before New York City Federal Court.
Greaney was the leader of approximately 7,400 skilled workers within Local 608 of the Carpenters Union.
Between 1994 and 2009, Greaney and 6 other co-conspirators engaged in a [...]

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Father Follows His Family To Federal Prison For More Than 24 Years For Labor Trafficking

July 13, 2010

After pleading guilty to labor trafficking, aggravated sexual abuse and other misconduct charge in August of 2009, Lassissi Afolabi a resident from the New York area was sentenced to more than 24 years in federal prison and a restitution of approximately $3.9 million, which doubled the amount of misappropriate wages and compensatory damages to his [...]

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Mariah Carey To Dubai Concerts Sham Defrauded An Investor Of More Than $300,000

July 9, 2010

Antywan Ross, a music industry promoter from Georgia, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud for scamming a New Jersey investor approximately $330,000 by misrepresenting to him his plans to promote singer Mariah Carey in Dubai.
In 2008, Ross used his company the RDA Group to support his claim to promote a series of Mariah [...]

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Local Mechanic From The New York Area Pleads Guilty To Possessing Child Pornography

July 7, 2010

James Artfitch, a New Jersey resident and mechanic pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography.
After the seizure of Artfitch’s personal computer by homeland security on April 7, 2009, over 600 images of child pornography were revealed. Artifitch also admitted to have distributed the images of child pornography over the internet.
If convicted, Artifich [...]

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New Jersey Resident Pleads Guilty To Wire Fraud After Conning His Victim $1 Million

July 1, 2010

Vlade Stojchevski, a resident of New Jersey, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud for allegedly counterfeiting bank checks and other legal documents in efforts to defraud investors of approximately $1 million.
Between 1998 and 2007, Stojchevski purportedly targeted an investor who was interested in international investment. Stojchevski conspired to induce the victim to invest [...]

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Former New Jersey Police Officer Pleads Guilty To Conspiring To Deprive Suspect Of Civil Rights

June 30, 2010

Jason Steter, a former New Jersey Police Officer pleaded guilty to conspiring to deprive persons in New Jersey of due process rights protected by the U.S. Constitution, while acting under the color of law. Steter and his fellow New Jersey Police officers who were in the same platoon at the time, admitted to arresting and [...]

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