courierpostonline.com | 11/7/08 | $1.6 million | suspects: Various
Police arrested 39-year-old Luis Reyes of Jersey City, 31-year-old Carlos Roman of Lyndhurst, and 29-year-old Mario Reynoso of Newark after finding more than $1.6 million in cash hidden inside an expensive SUV Reyes was driving.
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news.yahoo.com | 11/6/08 | suspect: Elliot Spitzer | victim: DOJ
Federal prosecutors said Thursday that they will not bring criminal charges against Eliot Spitzer for his role in a prostitution scandal, removing a legal cloud that has surrounded the former New York governor since his epic downfall eight months ago.
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ap.google.com | 91/08 | Staff Writer
Two former Bank of China managers and their wives have been convicted of conspiracy charges in an elaborate, 13-year scheme to embezzle $485 million from a state-owned bank and launder the money in other countries.
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ap.google.com | 8/26/08 | Adam Goldman
The last of four defendants charged in the prostitution scandal that brought down former Gov. Eliot Spitzer pleaded guilty Monday to arranging trysts between high-priced escorts and clients.
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reuters.com | 7/30/08 | John Poirier
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - E*Trade Financial Corp agreed to pay $1 million to settle allegations that two of its brokerage firms failed to follow U.S. rules designed to thwart money laundering, securities regulators said on Wednesday.
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dallasnews.com | 7/25/08 | Jason Trahan
An FBI financial analyst from Dallas and her son pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that they committed wire fraud and tax evasion for falsifying paperwork on several high-dollar vehicle loans.
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usatoday.com | 7/22/08 | Associated Press
Three Americans who ran an Internet money-transmitting company in the Caribbean have pleaded guilty to money laundering and other charges, U.S. Justice Department officials said Monday.
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courant.com |7/3/08 | Edmund H. Mahoney
Five business people from western Connecticut involved primarily in transmitting money to Brazil for local immigrants have been indicted for failing to properly register with and report the transfers to state and federal governments, the U.S. attorney's office said Wednesday.
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timesleader.com | 7/1/08 | Terrie Morgan-Besecker
Citing the defendant’s long history of mental illness, a judge on Monday agreed to depart from standard guidelines and sentenced coal company heir Louis Pagnotti III to 20 months in federal prison for lying to a grand jury.
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Titans of the US legal system will argue before a Moscow judge today over a multi-billion-dollar lawsuit being brought under American law that is highly unusual - even by the standards of Russian justice.
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ap.google.com | 5/27/08 | Travis Reed
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Lou Pearlman, the man made famous for creating the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync, was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in federal prison for engineering a decades-long scam that bilked thousands of investors out of their life savings.
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ap.google.com | 5/19/08 | Larry Neumister
NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Garcia's predecessors as U.S. attorney in Manhattan took on all five mob families, the titans of Wall Street, Osama bin Laden and even Martha Stewart. So it was largely unnoticed when Garcia wanted to attack public corruption.
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eagletribune.com | 5/2/08 | Mark E. Vogler
BOSTON — A North Andover man convicted of money laundering and filing a false tax return received three years of probation instead of a federal prison sentence. But Frank Magliochetti, 50, of 61 Mill Pond will serve the first six months of his probation in home confinement. U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Tauro also ordered him on Tuesday to forfeit $1,080,000, make restitution of $330,000 and pay a $50,000 fine.
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bloomberg.com | 5/2/8 | David Glovin and Patricia Hurtado
May 1 (Bloomberg) -- The man accused of running the Emperors Club VIP, a prostitution ring at the center of a probe tied to the resignation of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, is nearing a deal to plead guilty, his lawyer said.
Mark Brener is one of four people facing federal felony charges for organizing and managing the call-girl operation. Spitzer was a client of the ring, according to a law enforcement official familiar with the case. Spitzer, who quit in March, hasn't been charged with a crime or admitted wrongdoing.``We're getting pretty close'' to a deal, Brener's lawyer, Murray Richman, said yesterday in an interview, adding that his client will ``definitely not'' cooperate with a government probe.
sfgate.com | 4/1/8 | Staff Writer
A federal judge has refused to dismiss a money laundering conspiracy charge against a law firm accused in a lucrative kickback scheme.
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ap.google.com | 2/23/08 | Paul Davenport
PHOENIX (AP) — Legal and political pressures on Rep. Rick Renzi are mounting amid federal criminal charges that set off calls for the Arizona Republican to leave Congress sooner rather than later.
kansascity.com | 1/28/08 | Mark Morris
A former congressman accused of laundering stolen U.S. government money from an Islamic charity pleaded not guilty Monday in federal court. Mark D. Siljander said little during his brief hearing before a U.S. magistrate judge and afterward deferred comment to his lawyer, who said his client “vehemently denies the allegations in the indictment.”
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