Officials Admit Taking Bribes from Person Who Wanted to Open Marijuana Store LOS ANGELES – The former mayor of the City of Cudahy and the former head of the City’s Code Enforcement Division agreed today to plead guilty to federal extortion and bribery charges for taking cash bribes in exchange for supporting the opening of Read More »
WASHINGTON – A Danish man was sentenced today in the Western District of Missouri to 30 years in prison for producing and transporting child pornography and for extortion against an 11-year-old Missouri girl, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Beth Phillips of the Western District of Read More »
TRENTON, N.J. – Lydell B. Sherrer, a former deputy commissioner of the N.J. Department of Corrections (“NJDOC”), today admitted attempting to obtain $10,000 from an employee in exchange for securing that person’s continued employment with the department or its private contractor, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Sherrer, 52, of Neptune, N.J., who previously served Read More »
Defendant Admits to Plot Involving West Virginia’s 2011 Special Gubernatorial Election CHARLESTON, W.Va. – An Angels Camp, California man pleaded guilty today to a federal extortion charge in connection with last year’s special gubernatorial election held in West Virginia, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Harry Marshall Rae, 63, pleaded guilty in federal court before United Read More »
Defendants Include One Current and Two Former Members of the Bonanno Crime Family Administration A fourteen-count superseding indictment was unsealed this morning in Brooklyn federal court charging five members of the Bonanno organized crime family of La Cosa Nostra (the “Bonanno family”) variously with racketeering, extortion, illegal gambling and conspiring to distribute marijuana. An associate Read More »
The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today that Brett L. Nash, 45, of Granite City, was arraigned in federal district court in East St. Louis yesterday on charges that he attempted to extort a targeted individual by threatening physical violence. The charges were alleged in a Criminal Read More »
Defendant Fabricated Resisting Arrest Charge Michael Daragjati, an eight-year veteran of the New York City Police Department, pleaded guilty today to violating an African-American victim’s civil rights by charging him with resisting arrest knowing that there was no probable cause to support that charge. Daragjati also pleaded guilty to attempting to violently extort property from Read More »
Robert Rogers entered a plea of guilty to attempted interference with commerce by means of extortion (“Hobbs Act”) as set forth in Count Three of the Indictment. The United States dismissed the remaining counts against the defendant (Counts One, Two, Five, Six, Seven, Nine, and Eleven). Pursuant to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(c)(1)(C), the Read More »
CHICAGO — The highest-ranking leader nationwide of the Latin Kings street gang was sentenced today to 60 years in federal prison, the statutory maximum, after being convicted at trial last April of racketeering conspiracy (RICO) and related charges involving narcotics trafficking and violence that plagued numerous neighborhoods on the city’s north, south and west sides.. Read More »
BUFFALO, N.Y. – The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a second Superseding Indictment charging 10 members of Operating Engineers Local 17, based in Hamburg, New York, with engaging in a violent scheme to extort jobs and compensation associated with those jobs from both local and out-of-town businesses Read More »
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