PRISON

HOUSTON – A total of 50 people are now in custody following the return of a 206-count indictment alleging varying roles in a large-scale marriage fraud scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick along with Special Agent in Charge Mark Dawson of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and District Director Tony Bryson of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).   The federal grand jury returned the massive indictment April 30, 2019, charging 96 individuals. To date, law enforcement has taken 50 into custody. Of those, nine are set to appear for a detention hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Nancy Johnson at 10:00 a.m. today.   The indictment remains sealed as to those charged but not as yet in custody.   “These arrests mark the culmination of a comprehensive year-long multi-agency investigation into one of the largest alleged marriage fraud conspiracies ever documented in the Houston area,” said Dawson. “By...

NEW YORK  — Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Andreea Dumitru, a/k/a “Andreea Dumitru Parcalaboiu,” an immigration attorney based in Queens, New York, was sentenced to five years in prison in connection with her operation of a scheme to submit fraudulent asylum applications to United States immigration authorities.  Dumitru was convicted on November 19, 2018, of asylum fraud, making false statements to immigration authorities, and aggravated identity theft following a two-week trial before U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who imposed yesterday’s sentence. Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said:  “Using lies and forgery, Andreea Dumitru, an immigration attorney, cheated the nation’s asylum program.  For her crimes, Dumitru will now spend five years in prison.” According to the Superseding Indictment, other filings in Manhattan federal court, and the evidence presented at trial: Betw...

Michael Cohen under find an inmate It is now official. Michael Cohen is part of  FCI Otisville camp. By now it is sunk in his brain and he is probably getting used to life as an inmate. Stand up counts, lines to eat chow, lines for the phone, lines for emails thru tru links. He may get a job in a week or two, cleaning grounds, kitchen work as a dishwasher, taking out facility garbage, working at ware house unloading a truck. There is no drama at Camp Otisville.  With a 3 year sentence, he should do about half the time at Otisville and then get the rest of the time at a halfway house and then on home confinement. To read more about prison, go here.... https://www.amazon.com/PRISON-expect-Federal-Bureau-Prisons-ebook/dp/B011GTWLOG \     

Dr. Martin Tesher, off to federal prison Martin Tesher, a former family medical doctor, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Raymond J. Dearie to 20 years’ imprisonment for nine counts of unlawful distribution of oxycodone without a legitimate medical purpose and one count of unlawful distribution of oxycodone and fentanyl that resulted in the death of a patient.  The Court also ordered Tesher to pay $3,700 in restitution and forfeit $2,725 in criminal proceeds.  Tesher was convicted by a federal jury in July 2018 following a nearly two-week trial.     Richard P. Donoghue, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and Ray Donovan, Special Agent-in-Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division (DEA), announced the sentence. Between June 2013 and January 2017, Tesher prescribed oxycodone tablets and fentanyl patches without a legitimate medical purpose to five patients after learning, or had reason to bel...

Kwasi Asare , busted by the feds  According to NY Post and I cannot verify this online, the feds busted kwasi asare for promoting fake concerts involving international stars. See article here... https://n ypost.com/2019/05/01/feds-make-arrests-in-multi-million-dollar-fake-concert-scam/ Kwasi is most likely a ghanian national, based on his name. Here is what he can expect in federal prison https://www.amazon.com/PRISON-expect-Federal-Bureau-Prisons-ebook/dp/B011GTWLOG