FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending October 12, 2012
- Headquarters: Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force Members Reveal
Results of Distressed Homeowner Initiative
The yearlong initiative
resulted in 530 criminal defendants charged across the country in cases
involving more than 73,000 homeowner victims and total losses estimated at more
than $1 billion. Full
Story
- New York: Lebanese Man Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison for Conspiring to
Provide Material Support to Terrorists
Jamal Yousef, aka
“Talal Hassan Ghantou,” conspired to provide military-grade weapons to the
Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia in exchange for more than a ton of
cocaine. Full
Story
- Denver: Army Sergeant Pleads Guilty to Facilitating Theft of Fuel in
Afghanistan
Christopher Weaver admitted to receiving payments in
exchange for facilitating the theft of approximately 100 fuel trucks at Forward
Operating Base Fenty. Full
Story
- Dallas: Owner of Texas Home Health Services Company Admits Role in $374
Million Fraud Scheme
Cyprian Akamnonu pleaded guilty to his
participation in a home health fraud scheme in which he and others conspired to
bill Medicare for unnecessary services that were never performed. Full
Story
- Miami: Forty Defendants Charged in Separate Schemes that Resulted in
Thousands of Identities Stolen and Millions of Dollars in Identity Theft Tax
Filings
Members of the Identity Theft Tax Fraud Strike Force
announced the most recent results of their investigative efforts to combat the
rising wave of stolen identity refund scams. Full
Story
- Los Angeles: Two U.S. Contractor Employees Sentenced for Kickback
Conspiracy and Tax Crimes Related to Iraq Reconstruction
Efforts
Billy Joe Hunt and Gaines R. Newell took more than $1 million
in kickbacks from subcontractors in exchange for awarding contracts on the
Coalition Munitions Clearance Program. Full
Story
- Memphis: Woman Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison for Child Sex
Trafficking Conspiracy
Kala Bray and a co-defendant lured
Memphis-area juveniles to Houston with promises of a trip to a water park. Full
Story
- Houston: Twenty-Five Alleged Members and Associates of Texas Mexican
Mafia Prison Gang Indicted
The defendants were charged with
trafficking heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine; firearms violations; and
distributing explosive materials. Full
Story
- Washington: Leader of Methylone Trafficking Ring Pleads
Guilty
Matthew Scott Baker led a trafficking ring that purchased
multi-kilogram amounts of the illegal narcotic known as “bath salts” from China
and distributed the substance throughout northern Virginia. Full
Story
- Cincinnati: Ohio State Representative Clayton R. Luckie, II
Indicted on 49 Counts
The indictment alleges, among other things,
that Luckie failed to accurately list expenditures made by his campaign
committee and diverted campaign funds to personal bank accounts. Full
Story
