Robert Moran, a yacht broker from Fort Lauderdale, was sentenced to 2 months in prison for his role in filing false federal tax returns and using off-shore bank accounts to conceal millions of dollars. Swiss bank UBS was the banking institution utilized by Moran in his criminal activities. The Honorable…
Steven Rubinstein is being sentenced by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida for tax evasion. Rubinstein admitted to failing to report an account he had with UBS. Government officials claim over $3 million in taxes was evaded by the use of an off-shore corporation in affiliation…
A 37-year-old man left the state of Florida last June with a $25,000 bail in lieu of a conspiracy for trafficking ecstasy charge. The man’s name will remain anonymous due to death threats he has been receiving and pending legal proceedings. Due to a life-and-death incident he faced, he left…
Fabio Ochoa Vasco, 48, was arrested and charged with drug trafficking by US authorities in South Florida. He will be looking at 10 years to life in prison for a drug operation involving the smuggling of tons of cocaine by speedboat, cargo ship and airplane from Columbia into the U.S.…
Richard P. Cramer, a high-ranking agent at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement federal agency, was arrested in his Arizona home for suspicion of conspiracy to smuggle cocaine. Cramer was formerly stationed in Mexico during his active duty and later retired in 2007 in the U.S. An investigation reaching back into…
Thomas E. Stringer of Tampa plead guilty to a bank fraud charge. The hefty jail time facing Stringer could be in upwards of thirty years. A break in the case though for Stringer is that no parties sustained financial loss in the crime, so Stringer may only face forfeiture of…
Dennis A. Bell, Jr., 28, has been charged with conspiracy to traffic cocaine from Florida to London. He will face up to 30 years in prison, six years of supervised release, a maximum fine of $2 million and a required payment of $100 at the close of the proceedings. By…
Huey Granderson of Millersport, Ohio was charged with three counts related to an insurance fraud ring which involved real estate. Granderson was the ringleader of this group that committed theft in upwards of $5 million from companies in the area. He pled guilty to partaking in corrupt activities, theft and…
Here is the next installment of Attorney Behr’s mortgage fraud prosecutions series: 18 U.S.C. §225 Continuing financial crimes enterprise Continuing financial crimes enterprise statue criminalizes any person that “…organizes, manages or supervise a continuing financial crimes enterprise; and receives $5,000,000.00 or more in gross receipts from such enterprise during any…
Further exposition of Attorney Behr’s mortgage fraud prosecutions series: 18 U.S.C. § 1341 Frauds and swindles & 18 U.S.C. § 1343 Fraud by wire, radio, or television Also know as the mail and wire fraud statutes. These statutes explain any person “…having devised or intending to devise any scheme or…”…