Donald Wayne George, of Oroville, Washington, was sentenced in Portland, Oregon to 25 years in prison for producing child pornography involving his 4-year-old step-granddaughter.
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Justin Laurin Prather, of Lubbock, Texas, a former employee of CitiCapital Commercial Corporation and senior vice president of GE Capital Commercial, Inc., was sentenced to more than 10 years in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $17.4 million in restitution for running three separate fraud schemes.
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Charles Winitch, a former financial adviser at a large wealth management firm in Manhattan, pled guilty to participating in a scheme to defraud clients of that firm by engaging in unauthorized and inappropriate trading in certain accounts in order to obtain large commissions.
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Jeremy Blackburn, a co-founder of Canopy Financial, Inc., a bankrupt health care transaction software company based in Chicago, Illinois, pled guilty to his role in a fraud scheme that cheated investors of approximately $75 million, while at the same time misappropriating more than $18 million from customer accounts intended for health care savings and expenses.
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Sergey Aleynikov was found guilty by a jury in Manhattan federal court of one count of theft of trade secrets and one count of transportation of stolen property in interstate and foreign commerce in connection with the theft of proprietary computer code concerning a high-frequency trading platform from his former employer, Goldman Sachs.
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Read about our Top Ten news stories of the week, including charges filed against a Maryland man for his plot to attack an Armed Forces recruiting center; the announcement of the results of Operation Broken Trust, the largest-ever nationwide operation targeting investment fraud; and the conviction of two engineers on charges of stealing trade secrets from Goodyear.
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Raquel Delgado-Marrero and Ángel Rivera-Claudio were each convicted in San Juan, Puerto Rico of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, attempt to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, and possession of a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime. The two were charged as part of Operation Guard Shack, in which 133 defendants were indicted as the result of 125 undercover drug transactions conducted by the FBI. In one transaction, Delgado-Marrero and Rivera-Claudio provided armed protection to a drug dealer during the sale of seven kilograms of cocaine in exchange for $2,000 each.
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Physician Alan D. Mendelsohn, of Broward County, Florida, pled guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud, to make false statements, and to file false tax returns in connection with his role in a fraud scheme involving lobbying and fund raising for political candidates and organizations.
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A federal jury convicted Clark Alan Roberts and Sean Edward Howley, both former engineers with Wyko Tire Technology Incorporated, located in Greenback, Tennessee, of stealing trade secrets from the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. Specifically, they were found guilty of guilty of conspiracy to commit trade secret theft, trade secret theft, unlawful photographing of trade secrets, transmittal of trade secrets, possession of trade secrets, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
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Harris County (Texas) Deputy Sheriff George Wesley Ellington was charged in a superseding indictment with accepting bribes in return for protection of loads of Ecstasy, aiding and abetting the possession with intent to distribute Ecstasy, and carrying and possessing a firearm during and in relation to the drug trafficking offenses charged. Ellington’s wife, Katrise Tania Ellington, was also charged in one count of the superseding indictment.
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