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'Bitcoin Beautee' In MD Admits To Role In $1.89B Cryptocurrency Fraud Scheme
A Maryland woman went under the name of “Bitcoin Beautee” during her role alongside two others in a Cryptocurrency fraud scheme that netted more than $1.89 billion, she admitted in US District Court on Monday, Jan. 29. Brenda Chunga, 43, of Severna Park, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud and wire fraud for her role as a promoter of HyperFund, also known as HyperTech, HyperCapital, HyperVerse, and HyperNation, US Attorney Erek Barron announced. The plea came just four days after a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Sam Lee, 35, an Australian citizen…
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Arlington Influencer Wanted By FBI Blames 'Naughty Americans' For Alleged Scam On Immigrants
A Brazilian influencer who federal officials said pretended to be an immigration lawyer to defraud clients out of nearly $700,000 says "naughty Americans" are actually the ones to blame. An indictment returned by a federal grand jury says 29-year-old Patricia De Oliveira Souza Lelis Bolin, of Arlington, posed as an immigration lawyer to help foreign clients obtain E-2 and EB-5 visas to the United States. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Patrícia Lélis (@patricialelis) The EB-5 program provides lawful permanent residency, and poss…
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Convicted MD Sex Offender Uploaded Self-Made Child Porn To Google: Feds
A 41-year-old convicted sex offender from Washington DC was indicted after he was caught uploading footage of himself sexually abusing a young girl to Google, federal authorities said. Michael Humphrey was indicted Tuesday, Sept. 5, in U.S. District Court on charges of sexual exploitation of a child, first degree child sexual abuse with aggravating circumstances, and transportation and possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves said. Google LLC told the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) that two Google accounts, later identified as Humphre…
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PA Woman Accused Of Stealing Nancy Pelosi's Laptop At Jan. 6 Riot Sentenced
Former Mechanicsburg/Harrisburg woman, Riley June Williams has been sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson on Thursday, March 23, 2023 after she was convicted on charges related to the Jan. 6 riot in the U.S. Capitol— infamously in connection with the theft of Nancy Pelosi's laptop. The 23-year-old had been charged with stealing a laptop from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, entering a restricted building and other related offenses, as Daily Voice has previously reported. Nearly two years ago, Oct. 19, 2021, Williams pleaded not guilty to all eight charges, but she w…
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'Where's My Gun?' Felon In Maryland Sentenced For Possessing Weapon, Producing Child Porn: DOJ
A convicted felon in Maryland will spend years behind bars after being caught with an illegal handgun and child pornography that was produced without his victim’s knowledge, federal officials announced. US District Judge George L. Russell, III sentenced Edgewood resident Travis Joseph Crawford, 34, to 15 years in federal prison, followed by 25 years of supervised release, for sexual exploitation of a child to produce child pornography and for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. According to the plea agreement, in November 2020, Harford County Sheriff’s deputies responde…
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Man Who 'Trained' Teen Victim To Avoid Rapists In Maryland Sentenced For Sexual Exploitation
A 46-year-old rapist who claimed to "train" his teenage victim to avoid getting raped by sexually abusing her in Maryland and the District of Columbia has been sentenced, federal officials announced. The abuser - whose name is not being released to protect the privacy of his victim, according to the Department of Justice - was sentenced to 32 years in prison for sexual exploitation of children and other charges stemming from sexual abuse. During the abuse, the victim was between the ages of 13 and 15, officials said. Federal prosecutors said that the man pleaded guilty in November 202…
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Maryland Man Already Behind Bars For Drugs Gets More Time For Producing Child Porn
A Maryland man already in prison on a drug conviction is facing additional time behind bars and will have to continue registering as a sex offender upon his release after admitting to producing child pornography. Luis Rivera, 34, formerly of Elkton Maryland, was sentenced in US District Court to 20 years in federal prison, followed by 20 years of supervised release, Judge George L. Russell, III announced. Russell ordered that the federal sentence be served consecutive to the 12-year state sentence Rivera is currently serving for a state drug conviction. Rivera was arrested on drug charges…
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Former Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration Worker Sentenced For Fraudulent License Scheme
A former Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA) employee will spend months behind bars after being sentenced for providing fraudulent driver's licenses to unqualified motorists - many in the country illegally - who were willing to pay a fee, federal authorities announced. Harwood resident Marion Rose Payne, 55, was sentenced in US District Court to 15 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to produce and transfer identification documents without lawful authority, specifically, Maryland driver’s licenses. In addition to her sentence, Payne was als…
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Cash-For-Kids Ex-Judges Fined $200 Million In Pennsylvania: AP
A Harrisburg, PA judge has ordered two former judges to pay $200 million to the families of children sent to prison as part of their kickback scheme, the Associated Press reports. Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan, both former judges in the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas, were found guilty in 2009 for charges in connection with a scheme that involved them using their positions to shutter county-run juvenile detention center, siphoning children from the juvenile court to PA Child Care and its sister facility, Western PA Child Care, according to court records. Childr…
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Virginia Man Sentenced For Assault, Murdering Co-Worker With Fishing Knife On Scalloping Boat
A Mexican national last known to be living in Virginia will spend nearly two decades behind bars after admitting to viciously attacking three former coworkers on a commercial fishing boat, killing one during a violent attack off the coast of Nantucket in Massachusetts. Franklin Freddy Meave Vasquez, 31, was sentenced by US District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs to 235 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release after pleading guilty to one count of second-degree murder, attempted murder, and assault with a dangerous weapon. On Sept. 23, 2018, “The Captain Billy Haver” …
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Maryland Governor's Former Chief Of Staff Charged With Falsifying Records In Federal Case
A former top official in the Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan's administration is facing new charges for allegedly falsifying records in an attempt to defraud the government, federal authorities announced. Naples, Florida resident Roy C. McGrath, 52, who was initially appointed by the governor to serve as Executive Director of Maryland Environmental Service (MES) is facing fresh charges for alleged falsification of records tied to previous federal charges of wire fraud and theft. MES is a corporation owned by the State of Maryland to provide environmental services such as water and wastewater man…
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Feds Charge MD Man In $246,390 401(k) Theft From NJ Employee
A Maryland man conspired with others to steal $246,390 from a New Jersey worker’s 401(k), federal authorities charged. Oladapo Sunday Ogunbiyi, 40, of Greenbelt, and others secretly tapped into the fund, added a bank account belonging to someone else and began steering money into it, an indictment returned by a grand jury in U.S. District Court alleges. “Ogunbiyi and others directed that the fraud proceeds be converted into cashier’s checks, which were provided to Ogunbiyi,” U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. “He then deposited the cashier’s checks into bank accounts under his control…
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Feds: ID Thief Fraudulently Collected $140,000 In Pandemic Insurance While In Prison
People from all walks of life have fraudulently collected pandemic benefits, but Devontae Stokes took it to a different level. Stokes, a 27-year-old identity thief, was serving time at Fort Dix on an unspecified conviction when he schemed with others to collect $140,000 in COVID unemployment benefits while they were federal prisoners. That’s right. Stokes was a prisoner at the low-security Federal Correctional Institution adjacent to the Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in Burlington County when he and a group of co-conspirators “obtained personal identification information, including nam…
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Federal authorities have charged three New York City men with kidnapping a Fort Lee resident and holding him for ransom. A judge ordered Albert Ferrelli, 50, and Chiahao Lee, 30, both of Queens, and Fa Deng, 42, of Staten Island detained following a brief hearing in U.S. District Court in Newark on Thursday, April 7. The kidnapper sent the victim’s wife a photograph showing the victim with his hands bound and his eyes and mouth duct-taped while demanding $680,000 following the Tuesday night abduction, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger said. New York City police officers resc…
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'Coming To Rape Your Family': NJ Man Admits Texting Racist Threats To Black MD Woman
A New Jersey man admitted that he sent racist texts to a Maryland woman threatening to hurt her and her family, federal authorities said. "I know where you live now, I'm coming to rape your family," Michael Marotta, 26, of Sewell (Gloucester County) texted the woman using an anonymizing messaging service, they said. Marotta "used racial epithets" in the texts, which included "eat my bullets," according to an FBI complaint. Taking a deal from the government rather than face trial, Marotta pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Baltimore on Tuesday, March 8 to making threatening interstat…
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Conspirator Who Used NJ High School Students To Cash Stolen COVID Stimulus Checks Gets 4 Years
One of a nest of criminals who paid New Jersey high school students to cash COVID stimulus checks stolen from the mail was sentenced to four years in federal prison. Because there's no parole in the federal prison system, Jeffrey Bennett, 27, of Irvington, must serve just about all of the plea-bargained sentence rubber-stamped by a U.S. District Court judge in Newark via videoconference on Monday, Feb. 14. Bennett -- a reputed associate of a group called "The Members" -- recruited U.S. Postal Service employees to steal checks, checkbooks, debit cards, and credit cards from the mail in excha…
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NJ Man Convinced By Ex-Con To Rob Bank Gets 92 Months In Federal Prison
A Camden man was sentenced to 92 months in federal prison for his role in a holdup spree by a serial bank robber. Laque Hunter, 37, was recruited to rob the Ocean First Bank in Collingswood in July 2018 by Anthony L. Livingston, 50, also of Camden. Livingston helped with a demand note and even drove Hunter to the bank, authorities said. The two then split the proceeds. Livington had only just been released from federal prison less than two weeks earlier after serving 18 years for robbing eight South Jersey banks in 2000 and 2001. A day after he was freed, Livingston robbed a PNC Bank…
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Speeding Driver Admits Deliberately Assaulting Military Officers In NJ
A Florida man who hit two Air Force military police officers with his car after blowing through a checkpoint at Fort Dix -- dragging one of them several feet -- pleaded guilty to assault in exchange for what he hopes will be leniency, federal authorities said. The officers pursued Hal Wander, 25, of Port Charlotte, after he sped through a designated checkpoint without stopping at the Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst military base in Burlington County, NJ on Nov. 16, 2020. Wander, who records show had prior arrests in Florida involving marijuana and stolen property, admitted deliberately plo…
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Army Research Biologist Charged In Bribery Scheme At Aberdeen Proving Ground: Feds
A 43-year-old Maryland man and US Army research biologist is facing federal charges for taking thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for providing benefits from the leading research center where he worked, federal officials said. Jason Edmonds, of North East, worked at the Army's Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Chemical Biological Center (CB Center), at the time of the alleged crimes, Maryland's US Attorney Erek L. Barron said. The CCDC CB Center was the nation’s principal research and development center for non-medical chemical and biological weapons defense, …
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Baltimore Arsonist Who Disagreed With His Own Plea Deal Faces Another Federal Charge
A 21-year-old Baltimore man who disagreed with the very plea deal that set him free is facing another federal charge for setting fire to his ex-girlfriend's house while she and her roommates were inside in May 2021, authorities announced. Luther Moody Trent previously pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree arson after pouring gas on the side of the Linden Avenue, destroying the property in a blaze on home May 20, 2021, according to previous news reports. He was released from jail after serving six months due to a plea deal, chopping his 18 counts down to just ten. Even Trent himse…
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: NJ Political Operative Admits Paying Hit Men To Kill Longtime Associate
A New Jersey-based political consultant admitted Tuesday that he hired two hitmen to kill a longtime associate from Hudson County who had worked for him on various election campaigns, federal authorities said. Sean Caddle, 44, a former aide to former State Sen. Ray Lesniak (D-Elizabeth) paid the killers -- one from Connecticut, the other from Pennsylvania -- to get rid of Michael Galdieri, the son of former State Sen. James Galdieri (D-Jersey City) and a prominent figure in local Hudson County politics. Galdieri, 52, was stabbed to death in May 2014 before his Jersey City apartmen…
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Jersey Shore Man Who Labeled Shipment Of Iguanas As Toys Sentenced To Home Confinement
UPDATE: A Jersey Shore man who falsely labeled a package containing 10 live iguanas bound for Hong Kong as “toys" was sentenced by a federal judge Tuesday to a plea-bargained six months of home confinement as part of three years probation. Jason Ksepka, 44, of Farmingdale, also was prohibited from "harassing, harming, pursuing, hunting, shooting, wounding, trapping, capturing, or collecting wildlife or attempting to engage in such conduct," U.S Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger said. U.S. District Judge Zahid Quraishi also barred him from the "the import, export, transport, s…
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Judge Won't Toss Excessive Force Claims In Wrongful Death Lawsuit Of Anton Black
A ruling by a federal judge paves the way for the family of 19-year-old Anton Black to continue with a lawsuit claiming that police on Maryland's Eastern Shore used excessive force when they handcuffed him and shackled his legs, according to the AP. US District Judge Catherine Blake refused to throw out the family's claims in the lawsuit and says body camera video of the deadly encounter doesn't contradict what Black's family says was use of excessive force by police. The three white police officers who tried to restrain him after they chased black outside of their home in rural Greensboro,…
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Feds Charge Baltimore Prosecutor With Lying On COVID Withdrawal, Mortgage Documents
A federal grand jury has charged Baltimore's top prosecutor with faking financial hardship on mortgage loan statements for two vacation homes and to make a COVID-related withdrawal from her retirement savings. Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby submitted paperwork for one-time withdrawals of $40,000 and $50,000, respectively, from the City of Baltimore’s Deferred Compensation Plans in May and December 2020, an indictment on file in U.S. District Court alleges. Mosby, 41, of Baltimore, falsely certified -- under penalty of perjury -- that she met at least one of the qual…
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