Federal Prosecutors

A Curious Admixture of Girl Power and Greed

Suzanne Langlois | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Donna Bello, Gifting Table, Federal Prosecutors, Joel Schiavone, Pyramid Scheme, Grand Jury Inditement, Crime News
Suzanne Langlois

Early Wednesday morning, three women from two tony towns on the Connecticut shoreline received visitations at their homes by Federal Marshals. Each woman had been charged with multiple counts of defrauding the Internal Revenue Service, filing false tax returns and wire fraud.

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Stuffed Animal Maker Allegedly A Front For Money Laundering

AP | GREG RISLING | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Angel Toy Corp., Drug Trade, Taxes, Drug Cartels, Video, Money Laundering, Import Fees, Federal Prosecutors, Business News

LOS ANGELES — Two sisters who ran a Los Angeles toy company were sentenced Tuesday to more than three years in federal prison for their role in ...

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Alexander Eichler

New Report: Federal Prosecution Of Financial Fraud Falls To 20-Year Low

HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Financial Fraud, Tarp, George W. Bush, Occupy Wall Street, Mortgage Crisis, Federal Prosecutors, Fraud Cases, Securities and Exchange Commission, Justice Department, Congressional Oversight Panel, Financial Fraud Cases, Barack Obama, Housing Crisis, Business News

Public mistrust for banks may be at an all-time high, but federal prosecution for certain financial crimes is down to a 20-year low. The federal go...

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The Penn State Mess -- Federal Prosecutors Where Are You?

Linda Kenney Baden | Posted 01.12.2012

Read More: Jerry Sandusky, Penn State, Barry Bonds, Penn State Scandal, Roger Clemens, Joe Paterno, Penn State Investigation, Penn State Federal Investigation, Federal Prosecutors, Armchair Detective, Sports News
Linda Kenney Baden

Perhaps this is the case to appropriately use your power to find answers so it does not happen again. The children victims here are far more important than John Edwards, Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens.

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WATCH: Feds Want Harsh Sentence For Blagojevich

Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Corruption, Trial, Video, Judge Zagel, Rod Blagojevich, Blagojevich, Corruption Trial, Oct. 6, Patrick Collins, Sentencing, Federal Prosecutors, Chicago News

Update: The U.S. Attorney's Office issued a statement Thursday in response to news reports about former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's possible s...

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Federal Prosecutors Take Softer Approach To Corporate Crime

The New York Times | GRETCHEN MORGENSON and LOUISE STORY | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Corporate Crime, JPMorgan Chase, Treasury Department, Deferred-Prosecution, Arthur Andersen, Crime, Banks, Sec, Federal Prosecutors, Beazer-Homes, Securities and Exchange Commission, Justice Department, Business News

As the financial storm brewed in the summer of 2008 and institutions feared for their survival, a bit of good news bubbled through large banks and the...

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Lawyer, Trader Charged With Sharing Merger Secrets For 17 Years

Posted 06.07.2011

Read More: Warren Buffett, David Sokol, Federal Prosecutors, M&a Insider Trading, Raj Rajaratnam, Mergers and Acquisition Insider Trading, Silicon Valley, Business News

NEW YORK/NEWARK, New Jersey (Jonathan Stempel and Andrew Longstreth) - A lawyer and a trader were accused by federal prosecutors of running a 17-y...

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A Letter From a Progressive to President Obama

Stu Kreisman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Triangulation, Think Progress, Father Coughlin, John Boehner, Liberals, 2010 Elections, George W. Bush, Progressives, President Obama, Bernie Sanders, Media, Politics, Conservatives, CBS News, Gotv, Health Care, Tea Party, Nbc, Lindsay Lohan, Rush Limbaugh, New Deal, Jim Demint, Washington DC, British Petroleum, Federal Prosecutors, Gandhi, Franklin Roosevelt, Joe Mccarthy, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Clintonistas, Net Neutrality, Daily Kos, Enthusiasm Gap, Koch Brothers, Fcc, Media Matters, Cnn, Sarah Palin, Fox News, Judiciary, Max Baucus, Joe Lieberman, Joe Barton, Hillary Clinton, Glenn Beck, Chamber of Commerce, ABC News, Bipartisanship, Tim Kaine, Rupert Murdoch, Mel Gibson, Politics News
Stu Kreisman

Dear President Obama, I'll vote for you in 2012, but you're not making it easy to do so. Your administration's communication skills are, to be honest, horrible. And now we're in for two years of gridlock and hell.

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Sergey Aleynikov's Trial Will Not Expose Goldman Trading Secrets, Prosecutors Say

Wall Street Journal | Scott Patterson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Sergey Aleynikov Trial, Banking, Business News, Federal Prosecutors, Bankers, Goldman Sachs Computer Code, Goldman Sachs Computer, Sergey Aleynikov, Business News

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has always closely guarded the secrets of its lucrative high-speed trading system. Now the securities firm is getting a help...

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bloomberg.com | Chris Peterson and Joost Akkermans | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mortgage Investigation, Deutsche Bank, Mortgages, Citigoup, Subpoenas, Jpmorgan, Sec, Federal Prosecutors, Mortgage Subpoenas, Securities and Exchange Commission, UBS AG, Business News

May 13 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. federal prosecutors and the Securities and Exchange Commission are cooperating in a preliminary criminal probe into whethe...

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Michael David Meeks, Ex-Marine, Made Hutaree 'Hit List' Of Judges And Elected Officials, Prosecutors Say

Newsweek | Michael Isikoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hutarree Militia, Michael David Meeks, Politicians, Judges, Iraq War, Detroit, Christian Militia, Federal Prosecutors, Domestic Terrorism, Michigan, Persian Gulf War, Veterans, Home News

A former U.S. Marine rifle expert and veteran of the 1991 Persian Gulf War supplied the extremist Christian "Hutaree" militia with a "hit list" of fed...

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Justice Stevens Gives Prosecutors One Week To Respond To Blagojevich Trial Delay Request

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rod Blagojevich Trial, Rod Blagojevich, Justice Stevens, Justice John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court, Federal Prosecutors, Blago Trial, Rod Blagojevich Trial Delay, Chicago News

CHICAGO — U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens gave federal prosecutors one week to respond to ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's re...

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Stanford, Texas Billionaire, Attempts To Get Out Of Jail A Third Time

AP | JUAN A. LOZANO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Billionaires, Federal Prosecutors, David Hittner, Robert Bennett, Alan Dershowitz, Ponzi Scheme, Bernard Madoff, Allen Stanford, Texas Jail, White Collar Crime, Jail, Business News

HOUSTON — Texas financier R. Allen Stanford's attorneys said Tuesday that jail has reduced their client to a "wreck of a man" who is severely de...

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Toyota Recall: Feds Open Criminal Investigation, Issue Grand Jury Subpoena For Documents

AP | KEN THOMAS and DAN STRUMPF | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Toyota Camry, Toyota Recall Criminal Investigation, Toyota Gas Pedal Problems, Toyota Recall, Federal Prosecutors, Toyota Subpoena, Business News

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into Toyota Motor Corp.'s safety problems and the Securities and Exchang...

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WATCH: Ryan Grim Discusses Obama's New Marijuana Policy On MSNBC

Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White House, Msnbc, Administration, Marijuana, Marijuana Policy, Ryan Grimm, Medical Marijuana, Obama, Federal Prosecutors, US Attorneys, Politics News
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Huffington Post reporter Ryan Grim appeared on MSNBC today to talk about the Obama administration's new policy on marijuana prosecutions. The White...

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The Ring of Truth

Gary S. Chafetz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Main Justice, Michael Scanlon, Jack Abramoff, Col. Oliver North, Kevin Ring, George W. Bush, David Safavian, Department of Justice, Federal Prosecutors, Honest-Services Fraud, Judge Ellen Huvelle, Brendan Sullivan, Judge Antonin Scalia, Judge Dennis Jacobs, Suborning Perjury, U.S. Supreme Court, Politics News
Gary S. Chafetz

A judge in D.C. reluctantly declared a mistrial for Kevin Ring, one of Abramoff's trusted lieutenants. It may be a sign that the reign of honest-services-fraud terror by federal prosecutors is ending.

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Piaget Building Examined By Feds: Links Between Iran, Skyscraper Suspected

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Skyscraper, Piaget Building, New York-New York, Piaget Building Nyc, Mosques, Feds, Federal Prosecutors, Seizure, Iran, Seized by Feds, Piaget Building Seized, New York, New York City, Islamic Republic of Iran, Piaget Building Specs, Piaget Building New York, Alavi Foundation, Piaget Building Model, New York News

UPDATE: Despite being known to some as the Piaget Building, luxury Swiss jeweler Piaget wrote in a statement that "the company does not own the buildi...

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The Curious Incident of a US Extradition in the Night-Time

Denis Campbell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Peter Gabriel, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Edward Fitzgerald, EU Court of HUman Rights, Nasa, Natwest 3, UK Extradition Act, David Blunkett, Sting, Ed Gibson, David GIlmour, Clark McClelland, Cyber Terrorism, Mark Haddon, Kevin Anderson, Gary McKinnon, Csn, Graham Nash, Pentagon, Dustin Hoffman, Aspergers-Syndrome, Dan Ackroyd, Peter Howson, The Guardian, UK House of Lords, Microsoft, Kaim Todner, The Rest of the Story, Rain Man, Federal Prosecutors, 7-7 Tube Bombings, Bush Administration, Karen Todner, Paul Harvey, War Games, Home Secretary, Scott Christie, Pink Floyd, UFO Obsession, Janis Sharp, Qc, World News
Denis Campbell

In many ways Gary's disease reveals an intellectually and emotionally na�ve child locked in a man's body. There his mind is both his biggest friend and greatest enemy.

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