Imperial Valley News Center
Real Estate Investor Pleads Guilty to Bid Rigging at Online Auctions
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Miami, Florida - Real estate investor Christopher Graeve pleaded guilty Thursday in West Palm Beach, in connection with an ongoing investigation into bid rigging at online public foreclosure auctions in Florida, the Department of Justice announced. Graeve is the second real estate investor to plead guilty in this investigation.
Justice Department Announces $3.4 Billion in Grants to Aid Crime Victims Nationwide
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Washington, DC - The Department of Justice today announced awards totaling more than $3.4 billion to fund thousands of local victim assistance programs across the country and to help compensate victims in every state for crime-related losses. Distributed through two grant programs administered by the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), a component of the Department’s Office of Justice Programs, the awards surpass every other single-year grant amount in the program’s 34-year history.
Former Convergex Global Markets CEO Pleads Guilty in New Jersey for Role in Securities and Wire Fraud Scheme
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Washington, DC - The former Chief Executive Officer of ConvergEx Global Markets Limited (CGM Limited) pleaded guilty Tuesday afternoon in federal court in Newark, New Jersey for his role in a scheme to commit securities and wire fraud from 2006 through 2011.
California Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS
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Sacramento, California - Everitt Aaron Jameson, 27, of Modesto, California, was sentenced Monday to 15 years in prison, and a life term of supervised release, for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
Justice Department Settles Immigration-Related Discrimination Claim Against Nation’s Second Largest Egg Producer
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Washington, DC - The Justice Department today announced that it has reached a settlement with Rose Acre Farms Inc. (Rose Acre), which is based in Indiana and is one of the largest egg producers in the United States. The settlement resolves a long-standing lawsuit filed by the Justice Department alleging that Rose Acre violated the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) by discriminating against work-authorized non-U.S. citizens when verifying their work authorization.
12 charged in nationwide cellphone fraud scheme which caused million dollar losses
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New York - Twelve charged in New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania Thursday after a fraud investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in New York’s El Dorado Task Force (EDTF). This investigation, worked by HSI special agents and taskforce members from the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office, revealed twelve individuals involved in a nationwide fraud conspiracy from 2014 to the present: Isaac Concepcion Aquino, a/k/a “Kaka,” Mario Diaz, a/k/a “Memin,” Tomas Guillen, a/k/a “Diddy,” Ronnie De Leon, Jose Argelis Diaz, Joel Pena, Jhonatan Diaz, a/k/a “Nino,” Eddy Morrobel, Ruddy Sanchez, Michael Roque, Rayniel Robles, and Joandra Tejada Gonzalez.
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