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Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and Jonathan D. Larsen, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division (“IRS-CI”), announced the arrest today of REGINALD FOWLER on charges of bank fraud and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business.  Bank fraud charges were also unsealed against co-conspirator RAVID YOSEF, who remains at large.  FOWLER and YOSEF, who worked for several related companies that provided fiat-currency banking services to various cryptocurrency exchanges (the “Crypto Companies”), allegedly participated in a conspiracy in which FOWLER made numerous false and misleading statements to banks to open bank accounts that were used to receive deposits from individuals purchasing cryptocurrency, and in which...

Allonce in detention at the horrible MDC Detention Center, Brooklyn Etienne Allonce pleads guilty Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, Etienne Allonce, the former co-owner of Medical Solutions Management, Inc. (MSM), a medical equipment company in Hicksville, New York, pleaded guilty to health care fraud.  In September 2018, Allonce was expelled from Haiti where he had fled 11 years earlier following the filing of an indictment in the Eastern District of New York charging him with billing Medicare and Medicaid for medical supplies never delivered to patients and never ordered by MSM.  Prior to his return to the United States, Allonce was placed on the Most Wanted List of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG).  Allonce pleaded guilty before United States District Judge Joseph F. Bianco. Richard P. Donoghue, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, announced the guilty ple...

typical Chinese restaurant Jackson, Miss. – China Buffet II owner  Cheng Lin , 36, of Meridian, was sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S. District Court Judge David M. Bramlette III to 12 months in federal prison, followed by 5 years supervised release, for harboring illegal aliens at his restaurant in Meridian, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Jere T. Miles, and U.S. Department of Labor Office of Inspector General Special Agent in Charge Rafiq Ahmad. Lin’s father,  Guo Guang Lin , 61, of Brooklyn, New York, and Lin’s wife,  Yang Fei Tang , 33, an illegal alien from China, were each sentenced to 6 months in prison, followed by 6 months house arrest, and 3 years of supervised release, for their violations of federal immigration laws. Guo Guang Lin previously pled guilty to harboring illegal aliens, while Tang pled guilty to a Criminal Information charging her with hiring more than 10 illegal aliens within a ...

bearded and aged Julian Assange ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Julian P. Assange, 47, the founder of WikiLeaks, was arrested today in the United Kingdom pursuant to the U.S./UK Extradition Treaty, in connection with a federal charge of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion for agreeing to break a password to a classified U.S. government computer. According to court documents unsealed today, the charge relates to Assange’s alleged role in one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the United States. The indictment alleges that in March 2010, Assange engaged in a conspiracy with Chelsea Manning, a former intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army, to assist Manning in cracking a password stored on U.S. Department of Defense computers connected to the Secret Internet Protocol Network (SIPRNet), a U.S. government network used for classified documents and communications. Manning, who had access to the computers in connection with her duties as an intelligence analys...