Read about our Top Ten news stories of the week, including charges against the leader of the Pakistani Taliban for his role in the murders of seven American citizens in Afghanistan; the indictment of a Chinese national for his alleged economic espionage against the agricultural company where he was employed; and the charging of six people in a human trafficking scheme that exploited 400 Thai farm workers.
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FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending September 3, 2010
A financial fraud tale of phony death certificates, staged funerals, and coffins buried with no bodies.
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FAKE FUNERALS, EMPTY CASKETS: A Different Kind of Scam
Six individuals were charged in Honolulu, Hawaii with engaging in a conspiracy to commit forced labor and document servitude. The defendants allegedly coerced the labor and services of approximately 400 Thai nationals brought by the defendants to the U.S.
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Six Indicted in Human Trafficking Scheme that Exploited 400 Thai Farm Workers
Polar Air Cargo LLC has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $17.4 million criminal fine for its role in a conspiracy to fix the cargo rates charged to certain customers for international air cargo shipments between the United States and Australia.
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Polar Air Cargo LLC to Plead Guilty, Pay $17.4 Million in Price Fixing Conspiracy
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Founder and President of Medical Equipment Company Charged with $87 Million Fraud
Corey N. Johnston, of Lakeville, Minnesota, pled guilty to operating a Ponzi scheme that defrauded at least 17 lenders in Minnesota and several other states. According to the government’s investigation, the lenders suffered losses in excess of $79 million.
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Minnesota Man Pleads Guilty to Operating $80 Million Ponzi Scheme
Christopher McCullough, currently of Frederic, Colorado and formerly of Houston, Texas, was sentenced to 51 months in prison for his embezzlement of more than $3 million while serving as the chief financial officer of LJA Engineering, a Houston-based company.
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Former Engineering Firm Exec Sentenced in Texas for $3 Million Embezzlement
Dorothy Ellis, of Texas City, Texas, a former senior employee of a U.S.
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Military Contract Employee Guilty in Bribery Scheme Related to Contracts for Iraq War
Lucius T. Solomon, III, of Atlanta, Georgia, formerly an officer with the Atlanta Police Department, pled guilty to corruption and drug charges in connection with providing protection in exchange for money for what he believed to be multi-kilogram cocaine deals.
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Georgia Police Officer Guilty of Public Corruption, Drug Trafficking Offenses
Delwyn Aaron Randall, of Cove, Arizona, who had previously been convicted of conspiring to distribute marijuana, was sentenced to 33 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
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Arizona Felon Sentenced for Illegal Possession of Firearm