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Atlanta: Twenty-Six MS-13 Gang Members Indicted on
Racketeering Charges
A federal indictment was unsealed charging 26 MS-13
gang members with federal racketeering and related
crimes in metropolitan Atlanta. The 29-count
indictment alleges that the defendants conspired to
participate in the affairs of MS-13, an
international violent criminal organization, through
a pattern of racketeering activity including
multiple crimes of murder, attempted murder,
kidnapping, and robbery.
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Washington Field: BAE Systems plc Pleads Guilty,
Ordered to Pay $400 Million Criminal Fine
BAE Systems plc pleaded guilty to conspiring to
defraud the United States by impairing and impeding
its lawful functions, to make false statements about
its Foreign Corrupt Practices Act compliance
program, and to violate the Arms Export Control Act
and International Traffic in Arms Regulations. BAE
Systems plc was sentenced to pay a $400 million
criminal fine, one of the largest criminal fines in
the history of DOJ’s ongoing effort to combat
overseas corruption in international business and
enforce U.S. export control laws.
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Miami: Owner of Health Care Company Sentenced for
Threatening Investigators and Defrauding Medicare
Yamill Ramos Perez was sentenced to concurrent
prison terms of 112 months for health care fraud and
60 months for harassing Medicare investigators. He
was also ordered to pay more than $5.8 million in
restitution. According to court documents, Ramos
Perez owned, through intermediaries, two health care
clinics that fraudulently billed Medicare
approximately $20 million and received approximately
$6 million in fraudulent reimbursements. After both
clinics were placed under review for suspected
fraud, Ramos Perez began a campaign to harass
Medicare fraud investigators and a Medicare
executive.
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Chicago: New Federal Charges against Canopy
Financial Co-Founders
Jeremy Blackburn and Anthony Banas, two co-founders
of Canopy Financial, Inc., a bankrupt health care
transaction software company, were charged with
allegedly defrauding investors of approximately $75
million and misappropriating approximately $19
million from client custodial accounts intended for
health care savings and expenses. Blackburn,
Canopy’s former president and chief operating
officer, was initially charged last December in
connection with the investment fraud aspect of the
case, while charges were filed for the first time
against Banas, Canopy’s chief technology officer.
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Newark: Four Indicted in $25 Million Scheme
Defrauding and Hacking Ticket Vendors
Three men who used fraud, deceit, and computer
hacking to make more than $25 million by acquiring
and reselling more than 1.5 million of the most
coveted tickets to concerts, sporting events, and
live entertainment throughout the United States
surrendered to federal authorities after being
charged in an indictment. The 43-count indictment
describes a scheme in which the defendants and their
company, Wiseguy Tickets, Inc., targeted
Ticketmaster, Tickets.com, MLB.com, MusicToday, and
other online ticket vendors.
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Columbia: Two Former Executives of Medical Manager
Found Guilty in Securities Fraud Scheme
John H. Kang, the former president of Medical
Manager Health Systems Inc., and John P. Sessions,
the company’s former vice president and chief
operating officer, were convicted of conspiracy to
commit mail, wire, and securities fraud for their
roles in a securities fraud scheme. The two
conspired to fraudulently inflate the reported
earnings of Medical Manager, a former subsidiary of
WebMD Corporation, by more than $16.8 million
between 1997 and 2003.
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New York: Former Executive Pleads Guilty to Insider
Trading with Hedge Fund Manager
Ali Hariri, a former executive at Atheros
Communications, Inc., pleaded guilty to a two-count
Information charging him with conspiracy and
securities fraud stemming from his involvement in
the largest hedge fund insider trading case in
history.
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San Antonio: Somali Charged with Making
False Statements on Asylum Application
A federal grand jury indicted 24-year-old Ahmed
Muhammed Dhakane, a citizen of Somalia, on two
counts of making false statements under penalty of
perjury to federal authorities concerning his
association with global terrorist organizations. The
indictment alleges that in 2008, Dhakane falsely
omitted on an application for asylum that from a
time prior to September 11, 2001 until January 2003,
he was a member of, or was associated with, al-Barakat
and Al-Ittihad Al-Islami. Both organizations have
been designated by the Department of Treasury as
Specially Designated Global Terrorists.
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Portland: Man Indicted for Operating Illegal Money
Transmitting Business
Victor Kaganov was indicted for operating an
unlicensed money transmitting business. Kaganov
established multiple shell corporations in Oregon on
behalf of Russian clients. He allegedly used the
shell corporations to move more than $172 million in
and out of the United States to more than 50
countries.
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Philadelphia: Norristown Man Charged in
Multi-Million-Dollar Fraud Case
Michael G. Spada was charged by information with
wire fraud, bank fraud, filing a false tax return,
and making a false statement to the federal
government in a fraud case involving more than $6
million. Spada is accused of embezzling funds from
his former employer and hiding that embezzlement
from both a bank, that extended him a $3.2 million
line of credit, and from the Internal Revenue
Service.
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