LOS ANGELES – Federal criminal charges have been filed against a Van Nuys manufacturing company and one of its owners for hiring unauthorized alien workers and repeatedly taking steps to cover up the illegal hiring in an effort to retain the workers. Yoel A. Wazana, 38, owner and production manager of Wazana Brothers International, Inc., Read More »
Little Rock – Jane W. Duke, Attorney for the United States, Acting Under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Randall C. Coleman announced the waiver of indictment and filing of a felony information charging four Crittenden County men with conspiracy to commit election fraud. This Read More »
SANTA ANA, California – A former employee at California’s employment agency was sentenced today to 76 months in federal prison for taking more than $40,000 in kickbacks in exchange for causing his agency to issue over a half-million dollars in unemployment insurance checks to people who were not eligible. David Paul Holden, 31, of Corona, Read More »
LOS ANGELES – Actor Tommy Lister, who has appeared in approximately 100 movies, and a San Fernando Valley accountant were charged today in federal court with conspiring to commit mortgage fraud in a scheme that led to $3.8 million in losses. Lister, who is also known as “Tiny” and “Zeus,” a 54-year-old Chatsworth resident, was Read More »
LOS ANGELES – A South El Monte man has agreed to plead guilty to a federal mail fraud charge in a scheme that falsely promised to eliminate mortgage debts for approximately 200 distressed homeowners who each paid a $15,000 fee. Instead of working on behalf of the homeowners, the man simply sent worthless “Sovereign Citizen” Read More »
Montgomery, Alabama – On August 29, 2012, Rhashema Deramus, 23 of Montgomery, Alabama pled guilty to multiple charges stemming from her part in a fraudulent income tax refund scheme, announced U.S. Attorney George L. Beck, Jr. Deramus and those working for her stole people’s identities and used those stolen identities to file fraudulent tax returns. Read More »
RIVERSIDE, California – A Glendale man has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for orchestrating a loan fraud scheme that netted him and his associates well over $5 million in less than eight months. Henrik Sardariani, 44, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Judge Virginia A. Phillips, who also ordered the defendant Read More »
Couple repaid their outstanding balance of over $535,000 prior to sentencing PHOENIX – On August 27, 2012, Kevin M. Silva, 54, and Christine A. Silva, 67, both currently of Castro Valley, Calif., were sentenced by U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell to 24 months in prison and ordered to perform 100 hours of community service. Read More »
BIRMINGHAM – A federal grand jury today indicted two men with prior criminal convictions for illegally re-entering the United States after having previously been deported, U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and ICE Homeland Security Investigations Resident Agent in Charge David Denton announced. FRANCISCO ALATORRE-CHAVEZ, 39, and JAIME SAENZ-ARENIVAR, 39, both of Mexico, are charged in Read More »
BIRMINGHAM – A federal grand jury today indicted an undocumented Mexican national on charges concerning counterfeit identification documents, U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Homeland Security Investigations Resident Agent in Charge David Denton announced. The indictment filed in U.S. District Court charges LAZARO RUIZ-PEREZ, 36, with three counts of transferring counterfeit Social Security and Permanent Read More »
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