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12/20/07 Akzo Nobel Acknowledges Improper Payments Made By Its Subsidiaries To Iraqi Government Under The U.N. Oil For Food Program, Enters Agreement With Department Of Justice

12/14/07 Italia Federici Sentenced for Evading Taxes and Obstructing Senate Investigation into Abramoff Corruption Scandal

12/11/07 Four Haitians Sentenced To Long Terms In Hostage-Taking Of A Nine-Year-Old American Girl In Haiti In 2005

12/07/07 Former Congressional Chief Of Staff Pleads Guilty To Honest Services Fraud Conspiracy

12/04/07 Local Man Sentenced to Almost Six Years in Prison for Fraud Scheme in Which He Obtained Money by Selling D.C. Homes He Did Not Own

11/30/07  Leader of Racketeering and Gambling Organization Sentenced to More than Eight Years in Prison

11/30/07  Spammer Sentenced to 72 Months in Connection with Pump-and-Dump Stock Scams

11/28/07 Two Maryland Men Who Arranged For PCP To Be Smuggled By Drug Couriers On

Commercial Airlines Found Guilty Of Federal Narcotics Trafficking Conspiracy Charges

11/28/07 Three Leaders Of Local Narcotics Ring Sentenced To Life Imprisonment Without The Possibility Of Release

11/27/07 Qantas Airways Agrees To Plead Guilty And Pay Criminal Fines For Fixing Prices On Cargo Shipments

11/16/07 Third Trinidadian Pleads Guilty To Hostage-Taking Resulting In Death Of American Man In Trinidad

11/09/07 Sentencing in Multimillion Dollar Credit Card and Mortgage Fraud Scheme

11/07/07  Federal And Local Law Enforcement Officials Announce Arrests And Raids In Multimillion-Dollar D.C. Property Tax Refund Fraud Scheme

11/06/07 Three Members of Business Software Piracy Ring Plead Guilty

11/06/07 Two Individuals Charged In $16 Million Scheme To Defraud The Export-Import Bank Of The United States

11/05/07  Former Executive Of Willbros Subsidiary Pleads Guilty To Conspiring To Bribe Nigerian Government Officials

11/02/07 Local Nurse Convicted of Conspiracy to Commit Extortion

11/01/07  Death Sentence Imposed in 1993 Murder Case

10/31/07 Ingersoll-Rand Agrees To Pay $2.5 Million Fine In Connection With Payment Of Kickbacks Under The U.N. Oil For Food Program

10/23/07 Former Federal Official and Two Area Businessmen Convicted of Money Laundering

10/23/07  Former Lockheed Martin Employee Sentenced To 16 Months For Wire Fraud And Making False Statements

10/18/07 Arkansas Man Sentenced To 30 Years In Prison After Traveling To D.C. To Have Sex With 10- And 12-Year-Old Children During On-Line Undercover Operation

10/11/07 Eight Charged In Connection With $80 Million Scheme To Defraud The Export-Import Bank of The United States

10/09/07 Serial Bank Robber Pleads Guilty To Robbing Five Banks During A Six-Week Span

10/09/07 Former Senior Employee of Military Contractor And Department of Defense Pleads Guilty To Criminal Ethics Violation

09/26/07 Local Man Pleads Guilty to Fraud Scheme by Selling D.C. Homes He Did Not Own

09/26/07 Northern Virginia Business Owner and Wife Found Guilty of Immigration Fraud Scheme

09/25/07 North Carolina Man Pleads Guilty to Distribution of Child Pornography

09/24/07 Florida Resident Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Mail and Wire Fraud in Multi-Million Dollar Securities Market Manipulation Scheme and Securities Broker Kickback Scheme

09/07/07 Capitol Heights Man Sentenced To 64 Years In Prison For The First-Degree Premeditated Murder of His Wife

09/06/07 Four Defendants Plead Guilty To Charges Involving Conspiracy To Commit Securities Fraud And Electronic Mail Fraud

09/05/07 Illinois Man Pleads Guilty to Sending Child Pornography to Undercover Officer in the District of Columbia

09/04/07 Gang Member Pleads Guilty to RICO Conspiracy and Two Murders; Co-Defendant Brother Pleads Guilty in Drug Conspiracy

08/31/07 Fourth Haitian Pleads Guilty To Taking A Nine-Year-Old American Girl Hostage In Haiti

08/30/07 Former Bankruptcy Attorney Sentenced in Mortgage Fraud Scheme

08/16/07 Three Individuals Indicted For Conspiracy To Sell More Than $5 Million In Counterfeit Software

08/16/07 Former Congressional Chief Of Staff William Heaton Sentenced On Corruption Charge

08/07/07 Former Treasurer of International Fraternity Sentenced to Prison in Connection with Bank Fraud and Theft

08/02/07 Illinois Man Sentenced To Two Years In Prison For Selling Thousands Of Copyrighted Video Games And Movies

08/02/07 Illinois Man Sentenced To Two Years In Prison For Selling Thousands Of Copyrighted Video Games And Movies

08/01/07 British Airways Plc and Korean Air Lines Co. Ltd. Agree To Plead Guilty and Pay Criminal Fines Totaling $600 Million For Fixing Prices On Passenger and Cargo Flights

07/30/07 Delaware Man Pleads Guilty to Attempted Enticement of 12-Year-Old Girl and Receipt of Child Pornography

07/24/07 "Virginia Jihad" Member Sentenced To 121 Months In Prison

07/20/07 Former Lockheed Martin Employees' Political Action Committee Official Pleads Guilty To Wire Fraud and Making False Statements To The Federal Election Commission

07/13/07 - Sentencing in Two Project Safe Childhood Cases

07/11/07  Senior Member of FARC Narco-Terrorist Organization Found Guilty of Hostage-Taking Conspiracy

07/06/07 Merchant Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Enticement of a Minor

06/28/07 New York Woman Indicted on 6 Charges for Fashion Clothing Fraud Schemes (pdf)

06/27/07 Racketeering Defendants Convictee and Others Charged with Additional Crimes in "Operation Underdog" (pdf)

06/26/07 Former Interior Deputy Secretary Steven Griles Sentenced To 10 Months in Prison For Obstructing U.S. Senate Investigation Into Abramoff Corruption Scandal

06/25/07 Former DOD Contractor Sentenced in Case Involving Bribery, Fraud and Money Laundering Scheme in Al-Hillah, Iraq

06/22/07 Member of Financial Crimes Enterprise Indicted (pdf)

06/22/07 Extradited Software Piracy Leader Sentenced to 51 Months in Prison

06/21/07 Woman Sentenced To Prison In Connection With A Fraudulent Scheme To Obtain More Than$107,000 From A Nonprofit Organization

06/21/07 Father Who Violated Custody Order By Taking Son To Egypt For 22 Months Found Guilty of International Kidnapping                 

06/21/07 Two-Time Bank Robber Sentenced to Prison Termcharge

06/20/07 Major PCP and Drug Trafficking Organization Dismantled

06/14/07 Former D.C. DCRA Employee Sentenced To 60 Days In Prison For Offering A Bribe To A DCRA Building Inspector

06/12/07 Maryland Man Sentenced To 106 Months For Sex Trafficking of Children and Pandering

06/06/07 Violent Drug Gang's Enforcer Found Guilty of Rico

06/05/07 Federal Jury Finds Maryland Man Guilty of Distribution of PCP Within 1000 Feet of a School

06/04/07  Congressman William Jefferson Indicted on Bribery, Racketeering, Money Laundering, Obstruction of Justice, and Related Charges

06/01/07  Former Department of Defense Employee Sentenced To 12 Months in Prison On Corruption Charges

05/29/07  Maryland Man Pleads Guilty To Embezzlement of $126,800 From Branch Office of Mercantile Potomac Bank

05/23/07  FBI and MPD Make Key Arrests in DC Drug Ring

05/18/07 Former District of Columbia Official Sentenced To 37 Months in Prison For Demanding Bribes

05/18/07 Former Charge d'Affair of Embassy of Papua New Guinea Sentenced for Committing Fraud Against Embassy

05/16/07 Four Northern Virginia Individuals Charged with Gambling, Money Laundering, and Related Crimes

05/15/07 D.C. Superior Court Jury Finds Capitol Heights Man Guilty of 2003 First-Degree Premeditated Murder of his Wife

05/14/07 Software Piracy Crackdown "Operation Fastlink" Yields 50th Guilty Plea

05/10/07 Local Man Sentenced To 38 Years in Prison For The Brutal Stabbing Death of Relative

05/07/07 Former Treasurer of International Fraternity Found Guilty of Charges in Connection with Theft of $241,000

05/04/07 Former Director of Accounting for PhRMA Sentenced to 41 Months in Prison for Embezzling $700,000

05/04/07 Maryland Man Sentenced To Three Years in Prison For Worker's Compensation Fraud

05/03/07 Local Doctor Pleads Guilty to $1 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme

05/02/07 Federal Grand Jury Charges Two in Scheme to Steal D.C. Area Properties From Estates of Deceased Persons and Others

05/01/07 Title Company Settlement Agent Sentenced For Role in Fraud Scheme That Cost Lenders Millions of Dollars in Foreclosed District Properties

05/01/07 Douglas Development Corporation Official Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion Fourth DDC Official to be Convicted of Felony

05/01/07 Former Local University Student Sentenced to Two Years in Prison For Sending E-Mail Threats to a Local Judge Who Was Presiding Over Her Civil Suit Against The University

04/27/07 Woman Pleads Guilty To Wire Fraud in Connection With a Fraudulent Scheme To Obtain More Than $107,000 From a Nonprofit Organization

04/27/07 Digital Currency Business E-Gold Indicted for Money Laundering and Illegal Money Transmitting (pdf)

04/27/07 McLean Pain Doctor Convicted on 16 Counts of Drug Trafficking

04/27/07 Digital Currency Business E-Gold Indicted For Money Laundering and Illegal Money Transmitting

04/27/07 Three Defendants Sentenced For Conspiracy To Commit Securities and Email Fraud

04/25/07 West Virginia Man Sentenced To 12 Years In Prison For Sending Child Pornography To Undercover Officer in The District of Columbia

04/25/07 Serial "Eye Patch" Bank Robber Pleads Guilty to Robbing Four Area Banks in 2006

04/24/07 Sixth Conviction Reached in Virginia DMV Driver's License Fraud Scheme

04/24/07 Former Congressional Aide Mark D. Zachares Pleads Guilty to Public Corruption Charge

04/20/07 Citizenship and Immigration Services Supervisor Sentenced for Bribery and Naturalization Fraud

04/20/07 Sentencing in U.S. Navy Procurement Bribery Case

04/20/07 Operator of For-Profit Software Piracy Web Site Sentenced To 24 Months in Prison

04/20/07 Two Defendants Plead Guilty in Internet Music Piracy Crackdown

4/20/07 Extradited Software Piracy Ringleader Pleads Guilty

4/16/07 Former Controller of Health Care Association Receives Prison Sentence For Embezzling Over $377,000

04/04/07 Maryland Man Pleads Guilty to Sex Trafficking of Children and Pandering

04/04/07 Arkansas Man Arrested After Traveling to Washington, D.C. to Have Sex With 10-And 11-Year-Old Children During On-Line Undercover Operation

04/03/07 Two Indicted and Arrested on Charges of Supplying Indian Government With Controlled Technology

04/02/07 President of Transportation Company Found Guilty of Falsely Billing D.C. Medicaid Over $1.8 Million

03/26/07 Bulgarian Woman Arrested and Charged With Conspiracy and Money Laundering

03/23/07 Former Interior Deputy Secretary Pleads Guilty to Obstructing U.S. Senate Investigation Into Abramoff Corruption Scandal

03/21/07 Former NASA Employee Sentenced On Charges Of False Statements and Acts Affecting A Financial Interest

03/16/07 Two Haitians Sentenced To Prison For Taking A 10-Year-Old American Child Hostage In Haiti

03/15/07 Former Howard University Student Pleads Guilty to Sending E-mail Threats to a Local Judge Who Was Presiding Over Her Civil Suits Against the University

03/12/07 Former DC Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs ("DCRA") Employee PleadsGuilty to Offering a Bribe to a DCRA Building Inspector

03/12/07 Former Charge d'Affair of Embassy of Papua New Guinea Pleads Guilty to Committing Fraud Against Embassy

03/03/07 Local Man Found Guilty of Killing His 74-Year-Old Relative

03/02/07 Former Department of Defense Official Pleads Guilty to Stealing Over $100,000 in DOD Intelligence Funds

03/01/07 Northern Virginia Serial Bank Robber Pleads Guilty (pdf)

02/27/07 Second Trinidadian Pleads Guilty to Hostage-Taking Resulting in Death of American Man in Trinidad

02/26/07 Former Bureau of Engraving and Printing Employee Sentenced to Prison for Stealing $67,200 of Partially Printed $100 Bills

02/26/07 Former Congressional Chief of Staff Pleads Guilty to Corruption Crimes

02/23/07 Maryland Man Arrested in Falls Church on Child Exploitation Charges

02/16/07 Former DOD Employee Pleads Guilty to Corruption Charges While Working at U.S. Army Headquarters Europe

02/16/07 U.S. Contractor Sentenced in Case Involving Bribery, Fraud and Money Laundering Scheme in AL-Hillah, Iraq

02/09/07 Chief Financial Officer of Douglas Development Corporation Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion

02/09/07 Owner of D.C. Dental Clinic Sentenced for $164,000 Fraud

02/07/07 Haitian Man Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison for Taking an American Woman Hostage in Haiti In May 2006

02/07/07 Five Indicted in Case Involving Bribery, Fraud and Money Laudering Scheme in Iraq

02/01/07 Maryland Man Found Guilty of Federal Charges in 15-Year Worker's Compensation Fraud Scheme

01/29/07 Bank Teller Pleads Guilty to Embezzling Over $7,500 From Wachovia Bank

01/29/07 Former DOD Contractor Sentenced In Case Involving Bribery, Fraud and Money Laundering Scheme in Al-Hillah, Iraq

01/29/07 Dutch Citizen Arraigned on Charges of Terrorism Conspiracy Against Americans in Iraq

01/22/07 Former State Department Official Sentenced for Mishandling Classified Material (pdf)

01/19/07 Former Congressman Robert W. Ney Sentenced To 30 Months In Prison For Corruption Crimes

01/17/07 Real Estate Speculator Sentenced To 10-Month Prison Term For Role In Fraud Scheme That Cost Lenders Millions Of Dollars In Foreclosed District Properties

01/10/07 Former Controller Of Health Care Association Pleads Guilty To Embezzling Over $377,000

01/08/07 Unlicensed Real Estate "Appraiser" Sentenced To 46-Month Prison Term For Role In Fraud Scheme That Cost Lenders Millions Of Dollars In Foreclosed District Properties

01/05/07 Second Significant Sentence Handed Down in "Operation Director's Cut (pdf)

01/04/07 Former Director Of Accounting For Phrma Pleads Guilty To Embezzling $700,000


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