Day: May 26, 2018

BREAKING News Out Of Colorado…THEY FINALLY BUSTED HIM!!! YES!

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COLORADO — Following a two-week trial, a federal jury in Denver, Colorado, has convicted a California man of multiple charges for his role in an investment scheme in which he falsely told investors that he was a billionaire who could access certain financing, including hundreds of millions in cash in an overseas bank account, in exchange for up-front fees.

Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Inspector in Charge Craig Goldberg of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service’s Denver Division and Acting Inspector in Charge Bill Hedrick of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service’s Chicago Division, made the announcement.

Kenneth Brewington, 55, of Corona, California, was convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, one count of mail fraud, five counts of wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, one count of laundering monetary instruments, and two counts of engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activity.

“Kenneth Brewington and his co-conspirators deceived investors by falsely claiming to have hundreds of millions of dollars in cash in an overseas bank account as part of a criminal scheme to steal the investors’ hard earned money,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Cronan. “The Department of Justice is dedicated to working with our law enforcement partners to identify and prosecute people who are involved in fraudulent investment schemes, and to pursuing justice for the victims of those crimes.”
“Fraudsters believe they can maintain this lifestyle on the backs of unsuspecting victims, but this arrest should be a warning to all that law enforcement will not stand for these schemes,” said Acting Inspector in Charge Nicole Davis of U.S. Postal Inspection Service’s Criminal Investigations Group. “Postal Inspectors have made it our mission to protect our customers from exploitation and fraud and we will continue to actively investigate these schemes and pursue convictions of these fraudsters.”

According to evidence presented by the government at trial, beginning in approximately 2009, the defendant told victims that he required millions of dollars in supposed fees in order to access his extraordinary wealth abroad, which in turn could be used for financing. During the scheme, the defendant and his co-conspirators sold promissory notes to victims, including through a financial-services marketing company based in Denver called Compass Financial Solutions (CFS).

The defendant and his co-conspirators falsely represented to their victims that their money would be used to pay for, among other things, bank transaction fees and tax penalties to the IRS. To conceal the nature of their scheme, the defendant and his co-conspirators told victims to wire their funds into an attorney-trust account.

The funds from that account, however, were then sent to the defendant and his co-conspirators and spent on, among other things, repayments to other investors and personal expenses. The evidence presented at trial showed that the defendant was not, in fact, wealthy and instead struggling to pay his personal debts. The defendant’s victims lost over $3 million to his fraud scheme.

The defendant’s sentencing is set for Aug. 17, before U.S. District Court Judge Philip A. Brimmer, who presided over the trial of the case.

The former corporate counsel for CFS, William E. Dawn, 80, of Denver, Colorado, and the former CEO of CFS, Brian G. Elrod, 61, of Lakewood, Colorado, previously pleaded guilty for their roles in the scheme. Sentencing hearings are scheduled for June 19 and June 20, respectively.

The investigation was led by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado and the Securities and Exchange Commission also provided substantial assistance in this matter. Trial Attorneys Anna G. Kaminska, Kyle C. Hankey, and Jennifer G. Ballantyne and Assistant Chief Henry P. Van Dyck of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section prosecuted the case.

BREAKING News Out Of Virginia… THEY GOT IT ALL!!! LOOK WHAT’S HAPPENING TO HIM!

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ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A Colombian national pleaded guilty today to his involvement in trafficking 490 kilograms of cocaine bound for the United States from Colombia.

According to court documents, Marco Antonio Robayo Barbosa, 64, was a cocaine trafficker who worked with brokers to coordinate multi-hundred kilogram shipments of cocaine from sources in Colombia to destinations around the world. Robayo Barbosa’s sources of supply included cocaine “laboratories” controlled by members of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (also known as the “FARC”), a group designated by the United States as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. Robayo Barbosa was personally involved in the distribution of approximately 490 kilograms of cocaine, which the DEA seized in Costa Rica in October 2013, and which Robayo Barbosa intended to be smuggled into the United States.

Robayo Barbosa pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine for the purpose of importation into the United States and faces a mandatory minimum of ten years in prison when sentenced on August 24. Actual sentences for federal crimes are typically less than the maximum penalties. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after taking into account the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

Tracy Doherty-McCormick, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, and Karl C. Colder, Special Agent in Charge for the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Washington Field Division, made the announcement after Senior U.S. District Judge Claude M. Hilton accepted the plea. Assistant U.S. Attorney Katherine E. Rumbaugh and Trial Attorney Michael Waits of the Narcotic & Dangerous Drug Section are prosecuting the case.

The case was investigated as part of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), Operation Perdition. The OCDETF program is a federal multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional task force that supplies supplemental federal funding to federal and state agencies involved in the identification, investigation, and prosecution of major drug trafficking organizations. The principal mission of the OCDETF program is to identify, disrupt and dismantle the most serious drug trafficking, weapons trafficking and money laundering organizations, and those primarily responsible for the nation’s illegal drug supply.

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BREAKING News Out Of New Jersey…THEY CAUGHT THEM!! HELL YEAH

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CAMDEN, N.J. – A Tennessee man became the seventh defendant to plead guilty while a Massachusetts man was indicted in connection to a child pornography ring at Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix that was operated by inmates who were imprisoned for related offenses, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.

Charles Wesley Bush, 38, of Knoxville, Tennessee, pleaded guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge Joseph H. Rodriguez in Camden federal court to an information charging him with one count of possession of child pornography.

William H. Noble, 52, of Lowell, Massachusetts, was charged by indictment today with conspiracy to receive and distribute child pornography, receipt of child pornography, distribution of child pornography, possession of child pornography, and accessing child pornography with intent to view on federal property. He will be arraigned at a later date.

According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court:
Bush admitted that he possessed a micro SD Card containing 2,471 images and 95 videos of child pornography, including depictions of sexual abuse of pre-pubescent children, bestiality, and sadistic and masochistic conduct. In connection with his plea, Bush also admitted that he used a cellular telephone inside the prison to obtain and possess child pornography and that he knowingly engaged in the distribution of child pornography by agreeing to transfer the micro SD card to another inmate.

Noble allegedly transferred the same micro SD card to a government informant at FCI-Fort Dix on April 19, 2017. Noble allegedly downloaded the child pornography himself and with the assistance of another inmate in the prison. Noble previously pleaded guilty in the District of Massachusetts to transportation and distribution of child pornography and was serving an 81-month sentence with a scheduled release date of March 8, 2018 at the time the alleged offenses were committed. He is currently in custody pending trial on the charges in today’s indictment.

At sentencing, Bush faces a mandatory minimum term of 10 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release. Bush’s sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 10, 2018.

If convicted, Noble faces mandatory minimum terms of 10 and 15 years in prison, a potential maximum of 40 years in prison, and a lifetime of supervised release. The pending charges and allegations against Noble are merely accusations, and he is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

Bush, Noble, and six other inmates were arrested in April 2017 and February 2018 following an FBI investigation involving multiple covert recordings and several cooperating inmates. The investigation revealed that Bush, Noble, and other inmates utilized contraband cellphones, micro SD cards, and access to the internet to obtain, view, and distribute child pornography within the prison. A co-defendant organized and helped facilitate this criminal activity by maintaining cloud accounts that were used as repositories for child pornography.

Five other inmates – Anthony C. Jeffries, 32, of Orange, Virginia, Jordan T. Allen, 31, of Plain City, Ohio, Brian J. McKay, 47, of Brookhaven, Pennsylvania, Jacob S. Good, 26, of Fredericksburg, Virginia, and Christopher D. Roffler, 30, of Virginia Beach, Virginia – have also pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and await sentencing.

A sixth inmate, Erik M. Smith, 36, of Iron Mountain, Michigan, pleaded guilty to the same charge and was sentenced on May 7, 2018 to an additional 151 months in prison.

U.S. Attorney Carpenito credited special agents of the FBI, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Gregory W. Ehrie in Newark, with the investigation. He also thanked officials of the Bureau of Prisons at Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix for their assistance.

The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Gabriel J. Vidoni and Alyson M. Oswald of the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s Criminal Division in Camden.