William J. “Boots” Del Biaggio, a Silicon Valley businessman, was sentenced in San Francisco to 97 months in prison and ordered to pay approximately $67.5 million in restitution for his role in a $100 million fraud scheme.
A serial rapist preying on women in upper Manhattan has struck again – raping a woman at knifepoint Monday after breaking into her apartment through a window, police said.
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Barton Albert Buhtz, of Sunland, California, was sentenced in Medford, Oregon to 36 months in prison for his conviction in a counterfeit treasuries case. In October 2007, a federal jury found Buhtz guilty of conspiracy to pass approximately $3.8 million in false U.S. Treasury instruments and multiple counts of passing fictitious financial instruments.
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Mario Bernadel, of Phoenix, Arizona, was convicted on 19 counts of conspiracy to commit mail, wire, and bank fraud; mail fraud; wire fraud; bank fraud, and transactional money laundering as a result of his involvement in a cash back mortgage fraud scheme.
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Balltazar Valladares, of Roseville, California, was sentenced to three years and one month in prison for interfering with the safe operation of an aircraft in connection with shining a high-powered laser at a police helicopter.
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Philip Barry, a money manager based in Bay Ridge, New York, was arrested and charged with securities fraud in connection with his alleged operation of a 30-year Ponzi scheme in which he induced hundreds of investors throughout the U.S. to invest more than $40 million.
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Jeffrey Robert Libman, 42, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., pleaded guilty in Miami to one count of receiving child pornography.
David Findel is best known for his purchase of exclusive seats at a local football stadium. Now, he will be known for another reason. The 44 year old President and CEO of Worldwide Financial Resources surrendered on a single charge of wire fraud.
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Jerome Anthony Malecki, of Fallston, Maryland, pled guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud in connection with a scheme in which he and a co-conspirator used the identity of Malecki’s next door neighbor, who had died in July 2004, to fraudulently obtain and renew credit accounts in the dead man’s name, and to steal and convert his financial assets.
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James Wiese, 38, of Birmingham, Ilir Dokaj, 33, and Tom Gjokaj, 52, both of Sterling Heights, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Detroit for scheming to obtain $7,557,100 from federally insured banks through fraudulent mortgages on 12 Birmingham homes.
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