The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that former Lackawanna County Commissioners Robert C. Cordaro and Anthony J. Munchak were sentenced in federal court in Scranton today by United States District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo. Cordaro and Munchak were sentenced today to serve 132 months(11 years)and 84 months(7 years), Read More »
LAS CRUCES – U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales announced that yesterday, Gabriela Quintana-Hernandez, 25, of Gomez Farias, Chihuahua, Mexico, pled guilty to an information charging her with bribery. Quintana-Hernandez, who has been in federal custody since her arrest on December 1, 2011, will remain in custody pending her sentencing hearing, which has not yet been Read More »
ASHLEY LAMERE, a 31-year-old resident of Billings, and JODI ADKINS BIRDINGROUND, a 36-year-old resident of Thornton, Colorado, appeared on charges of wire fraud, mail fraud, money laundering, and bribery. They are currently released on special conditions. If convicted of these charges, they each face possible penalties of 20 years in prison, a $500,000 fine and Read More »
CAMDEN, N.J. – The former owner and operator of Philadelphia temporary labor firm Sunrise Labor was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for bribing a senior investigator with the New Jersey Department of Labor & Workforce Development (LWD) and failing to pay taxes, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Channavel “Danny” Kong, 40, of Read More »
On January 26, 2012, an inmate of FCI Greenville was sentenced to additional time in federal prison for conspiracy to bribe a federal correctional officer and for smuggling contraband into the prison, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Khalat Jamal Alama, 27, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was Read More »
BUFFALO, N.Y. – U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Joe Phouthavongsa, 49, of Rochester, NY, who pleaded guilty to bribing a public official, was sentenced to five months in prison, five months home confinement and ine year supervised release by U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara. Assistant U.S. Attorney Russell T. Read More »
Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announced that Italo Campagna, 55, a former juror in a federal criminal trial, has pled guilty to charges of soliciting a bribe in exchange for Read More »
LOS ANGELES – A former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy was charged today with agreeing to accept $20,000 in bribes in exchange for smuggling contraband into the Men’s Central Jail. In a criminal information filed in United States District Court, Gilbert Michel, 38, was charged with one count of bribery of a public official. In Read More »
On January 12, 2012, a former federal correctional officer employed at FCI Greenville was sentenced in the federal court in East St. Louis to federal prison term for accepting bribes and smuggling contraband into the prison, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Dreux M. Perkins, 26, Read More »
NEWARK, N.J. – Jersey City, N.J., consultant Joseph Cardwell was sentenced today to six months in prison and six months home confinement for his role in agreeing to provide a $10,000 bribe payment to a city official in order to influence that official regarding real estate development matters, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Cardwell, Read More »
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