Tweet Marc-Andre Cusson, a resident of Sutton, Quebec, was sentenced to 14 years in prison in Vermont for his role in a drug trafficking and money laundering operation in Canada and the U.S. Cusson was accused of being the ringleader in the operation that imported tons of marijuana to the U.S. and smuggled millions of […]
Tweet The third executive of a Los Angeles toy company, Meichun Cheng Huang, pleaded guilty to conspiracy today as part of a black market peso exchange scheme that laundered almost US$9 million for drug cartels in Mexico and Columbia using teddy bears and Topo Gigio mouse dolls. Huang was a co-owner of the toy company, […]
Tweet A Romanian man has pleaded guilty for his role in a cyberlaundering scam that took in about US$2.7 million from users of online marketplaces such as eBay, Craigslist and AutoTrader. Adrian Ghighina, 33, of Bucharest, pleaded guilty to conspiracy, bank fraud and money laundering in U.S. District Court for the District of Illinois. Ghighina […]
Tweet Case Studies on Lawyers & Money Laundering Scott Rothstein The 50-year prison sentence imposed on Scott Rothstein in July of this year for running a US$1.2 billion Ponzi scheme from his Florida law firm, money laundering and stealing client trust funds, is the latest in a series of high-profile money laundering cases involving lawyers […]
Tweet A U.K. professional gambler, Harvinder “Micky Singh” Batth, and three co-defendants must come up with £800,000 in restitution in the next six months or spend more time in jail. Batth was a member of a U.K. group that laundered millions of pounds at casinos on behalf of crime bosses. He was a well-known professional […]
Tweet Debra Villegas, former chief operating officer of the now-defunct Fort Lauderdale law firm run by Scott Rothstein, was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 10 years and ordered to pay US$363 million in restitution today in Florida. Villegas forged signatures on fabricated legal settlements that were sold to wealthy investors. Earlier this year, […]
Tweet Florida businessman Nevin Shapiro pleaded guilty to running a US$880 million Ponzi scheme. Shapiro was the founder and president of Capitol Investments USA, Inc. (Capitol), a grocery distribution business. He surrendered to the FBI and was arraigned in federal court in New Jersey in April of this year. He was charged with securities fraud […]
Tweet Dalia Preldakaj, a paralegal in the New York law firm of Salvador Collazo, was sentenced today in Manhattan to 78 months in prison for money laundering, witness tampering, immigration application fraud and conspiracy to operate an immigration fraud mill. Collazo is a former Acting Justice of the New York State Supreme Court who was […]
Tweet Former Panamanian President Manuel Noriega was extradited to France from the U.S. on an extradition warrant to face charges that he laundered US$3.15 million in drug profits through transactions that included buying luxurious apartments in Paris. Noriega was in jail serving a sentence for multiple charges, including drug trafficking in the U.S. from 1990 […]
Tweet Oksana Yang, a Vancouver resident, was convicted this week of attempting to leave Canada with more than $10,000 cash and not reporting it. The Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act requires that every person report when they import to Canada or export from Canada cash (or other monetary instrument) equal to […]