FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending June 15, 2012
- Headquarters: FBI Releases Preliminary Annual Crime Statistics for
2011
According to the Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report,
the nation experienced a 4.0 percent decrease in the number of violent crimes
and a 0.8 percent decline in the number of property crimes in 2011 when compared
with data from 2010. Full
Story
- Richmond/Washington Field: Authorities Launch Multimedia Campaign in
Morgan Harrington Murder Case
Federal, state, and local law
enforcement launched a multimedia campaign that includes two enhanced composite
sketches of a suspect in the 2009 murder of the Virginia Tech student. The
unknown murder suspect is also connected by DNA to a 2005 sexual assault in
Fairfax City, Virginia. Full
Story
- New York: Al Shabaab Associate Pleads GuiltyMohamed Ibrahim
Ahmed pled guilty to conspiring to provide material support to and to receive
military-type training from al Shabaab, a terrorist organization based in
Somalia. Full
Story
- Charlotte: Member of North Carolina Jihadist Terrorist Cell Found
Guilty
Anes Subasic was convicted of conspiring to provide material
support to terrorists and conspiring to murder, kidnap, maim, and injure persons
abroad. Full
Story
- Houston: Allen Stanford Sentenced for Orchestrating $7 Billion Investment
Fraud Scheme
R. Allen Stanford, former chairman of the board of
directors of Stanford International Bank (SIB), was sentenced to a total of 110
years in prison for operating a 20-year investment fraud scheme in which he
misappropriated billions from SIB to finance his personal businesses. Full
Story
- Los Angeles: Associate of Hacking Group Indicted for Conspiracy to
Conduct Cyber Attacks
Ryan Cleary, an associate of LulzSec, an
offshoot of the larger group Anonymous, was charged with multiple computer
attacks targeting a news organization and private companies. Full
Story
- Washington Field: ING Bank Agrees to Forfeit $619 Million for Illegal
Transactions with Cuban and Iranian Entities
ING Bank N.V. agreed to
forfeit millions to the Justice Department and the New York County District
Attorney’s Office for conspiring to violate federal and state laws by illegally
moving billions of dollars through the U.S. financial system. Full
Story
- Boston: Catherine Greig Sentenced for Harboring “Whitey”
Bulger
Catherine E. Greig was sentenced to eight years in federal
prison for her role in harboring and concealing one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted
fugitives, James J. “Whitey” Bulger. Full
Story
- San Antonio: Los Zetas Leader Indicted in Money Laundering
Scheme
Fourteen defendants were indicted, including leader Miguel
Angel Trevino Morales, in connection with a conspiracy to launder drug
distribution proceeds by purchasing, training, breeding, and racing American
quarter horses in the United States. Full
Story
- Boston: Pennsylvania Man Arrested on Computer Hacking
ChargesAndrew James Miller was charged with remotely hacking into
computer networks belonging to the University of Massachusetts, the U.S.
Department of Energy, and other institutions and companies and then selling
unauthorized access to those networks. Full
Story