Robert Egan, the president of Mount Vernon Money Center (MVMC), and Bernard McGarry, the chief operating officer, were indicted in Manhattan federal court on charges of defrauding banks, other financial institutions, retailers, hospitals, and universities out of $50 million in funds that had been entrusted to MVMC.
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President and COO of New York Money Center Indicted in $50 Million Fraud Scheme
As part of a joint U.S. and Italian law enforcement action, three Florida men were arrested on charges including obstruction of justice and money laundering; and three men were arrested on charges filed New York including obstruction of justice, extortion, and concealment of assets in bankruptcy. Also as part of this coordinated enforcement action, prosecutors in Palermo, Italy charged 21 defendants in Sicily with extortion, drug trafficking, attempted homicide, and other crimes arising from their alleged affiliation with a Sicilian Mafia family.
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FBI and Italian Authorities Conduct Coordinated Enforcement Action
Karen Hewitt pled guilty in Albany, New York to her role in a bank fraud scheme involving three other individuals, all of whom have pled guilty.
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New York Woman Pleads Guilty in Bank Fraud Scheme
Robert Kalman, of Guilford, Connecticut, was sentenced to three years in federal prison for conspiring to sell cocaine.
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Connecticut Man Sentenced for Role in Narcotics Ring
Timothy M. Strain, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was charged with mail and bank fraud for allegedly using fraudulent money orders to pay the balance due on two vehicle loans.
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Louisiana Man Charged with Mail and Bank Fraud
John Robert Dossey, a Houston, Texas area architect, was indicted on charges of producing and possessing child pornography in connection with allegedly paying a 16-year-old female and another minor to engage in various sex acts with him and to allow him to take sexually explicit photographs of them.
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Texas Architect Charged with Producing and Possessing Child Pornography
Licensed physician’s assistant Manuel Anthony Puig, and his wife, certified nursing assistant Romelia Sanchez Puig, both of Edinburg, Texas, were indicted by a federal grand jury for health care fraud, mail fraud, and conspiracy to commit health care fraud.
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Texas Physician Assistant, Wife Charged in Scheme to Defraud Medicaid
Kimberly O. McAbee, of Woodruff, South Carolina, was charged with embezzling approximately $520,000 while employed at Arthur State Bank in Union, South Carolina.
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South Carolina Bank Employee Charged with Embezzlement
Federal inmates Sinclair Landon Atkins and Julio Adalbert Castellanos-Garcia, both housed in the Federal Correctional Institution in Edgefield, South Carolina, were each indicted by a federal grand jury for assaulting a federal officer in separate incidents.
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South Carolina Federal Inmates Charged with Assaulting Correctional Officers
Shawn Demetrius White, of Greenville, South Carolina, was charged in a two-count federal indictment with possession and distribution of crack cocaine.
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South Carolina Man Faces Federal Drug Charges