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California Woman Pleads Guilty to Sexual Exploitation of Minors

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:25:31 -0500



Jennifer Lynn Thurman, of Porterville, California, pled guilty to four counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, admitting that in 2007, she video-recorded her then-boyfriend Steven Arthur sexually molesting four minors in her residence after administering the tranquilizer Ativan to the minors by placing it in Oreo cookies or drinks that they gave to the minors.







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California Gang Member Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Traffic Cocaine

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:23:42 -0500



Nuestra Familia gang member Bismark Martin Ocampo, of San Francisco, California, pled guilty to conspiring to distribute cocaine. The plea agreement calls for a sentence of 28 years in federal prison.







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Minnesota Man Sentenced for Role in $3.7 Billion Ponzi Scheme

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:20:41 -0500



Michael Catain, of Shorewood, Minnesota, who laundered money for businessman Tom Petters, was sentenced to 90 months in prison for his role in Petters' $3.7 billion Ponzi scheme.







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Illinois Man Sentenced for Swindling 75 Victims in $28 Million Ponzi Scheme

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:18:17 -0500



Matthew Scott, of Elmhurst, Illinois, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for defrauding 75 victims, many of whom lost their retirement funds and life savings, in connection with his operation of a $28 million Ponzi scheme.







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Former IBM Senior Vice President Sentenced in New York in Insider Trading Case

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:03:56 -0500



Robert Moffat, Jr., a former senior executive at International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to six months in prison for his participation in the largest hedge fund insider trading case in history.







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Federal Inmate Sentenced in Connecticut for Assaulting Correctional Officers

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:53:07 -0500



Season Hope Eagleman, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, was sentenced to an additional two years in prison for assaulting two correctional officers at the facility.







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Arizona Pediatrician Indicted for Distributing Child Pornography

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:49:33 -0500



Dr. Emilio Luna, of Sun City, Arizona, a Phoenix pediatrician, was indicted in connection with allegedly sharing thousands of suspected child pornography files from his computer in a public peer-to-peer file sharing system.







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Massachusetts Man Indicted for Child Pornography Offense

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:42:52 -0500



Shalin Bhavsar, of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, was indicted in connection with allegedly purchasing 30-day subscriptions to six websites that contained images of child pornography.







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Oregon Man Sentenced to 25 Years for Producing Child Pornography

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:31:37 -0500



Former golf instructor Rodney Mead Pelling, of Newberg, Oregon, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for traveling with a 12-year-old girl, creating numerous sexually explicit images of the minor both at his residence in Yamhill County and at hotels in various counties throughout Oregon.







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Virginia Bloods Gang Member Sentenced to 50 Years in Prison

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:21:17 -0500



Jamel Spaights, of Portsmouth, Virginia, was sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role as one of the top two leaders of the Bounty Hunter Bloods/Nine Tech Gangster street gang that operated in various neighborhoods in Portsmouth, Suffolk and Chesapeake, Virginia.







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Ten Charged in Superseding Indictment with Racketeering and Narcotics Offenses

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:17:17 -0500



A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned a superseding indictment charging 10 individuals with narcotics and firearms offenses, federal racketeering conspiracy, and three murders in aid of racketeering activity in connection with an ongoing investigation into a violent drug organization that operated in neighborhoods within the D.C. metropolitan area.







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Texas Man Charged with Using Rodeo Act to Sexually Assault Children

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:13:55 -0500



Rodney Ray Hayes, who had a professional rodeo act which was based out of Linden, Texas and had children under the age of 18 performing and traveling with him, was indicted on four counts of transporting minors with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.