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2008

December 2007
December 20, 2007	CONCERT VIOLINIST INDICTED FOR FALSE REPRESENTATIONS IN CONNECTION WITH THE SALE AND CONSIGNMENT OF FINE INSTRUMENTS
	Joseph Tang	Indicted	Mail and wire fraud in connection with the sale and consignment of fine violins, violas, and bows
December 19, 2007	EMERYVILLE LOAN OFFICER PLEADS GUILTY IN LOAN KICKBACK SCHEME Defendant received more than $500,000 from scheme
	Renato Quiazon	Guilty Plea	One count of wire fraud and four counts of filing false tax returns
December 19, 2007	ALL THREE DEFENDANTS SENTENCED IN CALIFORNIA INDIAN CASINO HEIST Mastermind Gets 30 Months in Federal Prison
	Peter Collins, Daniel Porter, Emily Weitzel	Sentenced	Collins: Time served in prison (approximately 11 months) and ordered to pay $500 in special assessments Porter: 30 months in prison and ordered to pay $500 in special assessments Weitzel: 12 months and a day in prison and order to pay $400 in special assessments
December 19, 2007	FORMER SAN FRANCISCO JUVENILE PROBATION OFFICER SENTENCED TO 70 MONTHS FOR DISTRIBUTION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
	John Aicega	Sentenced	Seventy months in prison and ordered to pay a $75,000 fine for receiving and distributing child pornography over the internet
December 19, 2007	OAKLAND MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO ATTEMPTED ARMED BANK ROBBERY AND BRANDISHING A SHOTGUN
	Everett Robinson	Guilty Plea	Attempted armed bank robbery and brandishing of a firearm during the attempted robbery
December 19, 2007	FORMER NASA ENGINEER PLEADS GUILTY TO DOWNLOADING AND POSSESSING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY ON GOVERNMENT COMPUTER
	Mark Zelinsky	Guilty Plea	Possessing images of child pornography on a government computer
December 18, 2007	JEWELER PLEADS GUILTY TO FAILING TO REPORT SUSPICIOUS TRANSACTION Defendant Suspected Company Might Be Selling Computer Equipment to Iran
	Mohammad Ali Mayssami	Guilty Plea	Felony charge related to his role in financing the illegal shipment of computer products to Iran
December 13, 2007	ARCATA BUSINESS WOMEN SENTENCED TO 4 ½ YEARS IN MILLION DOLLAR IDENTITY THEFT SCHEME
	Christina Kim	Sentenced	Fifty-four months imprisonment in connection with an identity theft scheme that spanned nearly 7 years and defrauded victims of more than $1.1 million
December 13, 2007	LAST TWO DEFENDANTS SENTENCED FOR ROLES IN FAKE MARRIAGE SCHEME “Operation Blushing Bride” Targeted Fake Marriage Brokers Who Recruited Chinese Nationals to Marry American Citizens for Immigration Benefits
	Zhicheng Zeng, Lin Hu Ma	Charged	Zeng: Six months imprisonment and a $5,000 fine, followed by 3 years supervised release Ma: One year probation
December 13, 2007	FORMER ORINDA MAN CHARGED WITH TAX EVASION Defendant Failed to report more than $707,000 of income
	Richard Cutshall	Charged	Three counts of tax evasion
December 11, 2007	FORMER CAMBRIDGE BANK CEO PLEADS GUILTY TO WIRE FRAUD Former Head of Grenada-Based Cambridge International Bank & Trust Agrees to an Order to Pay $9.9 Million in Restitution
	David Rowe	Guilty Plea	Defrauding an investor into transferring 13,200 shares of Intel to a trading company in New York
December 10, 2007	DEFENDANTS CONVICTED IN “OPERATION STEAL CURTAIN”
	Various	Convicted	Trafficking in methamphetamine, illegal firearms and stolen vehicles in and around the Hollister area
December 05, 2007	FORMER VICE PRESIDENT FOR HUMAN RESOURCES OF BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS CONVICTED IN STOCK OPTIONS TRIAL
	Stephanie Jensen	Convicted	One count of conspiracy and one count of falsifying books and records relating to her scheme to backdate options grants to Brocade employees
December 05, 2007	LARGE-SCALE MARIJUANA CULTIVATOR CONVICTED BY JURY Cody Dobbs Faces 10-Year Mandatory Minimum Prison Term
	Cody Dobbs	Convicted	Cultivating and possessing with intent to distribute marijuana, and conspiracy to cultivate and possess with intent to distribute marijuana
December 04, 2007	FORMER OWNERS OF SAN FRANCISCO CLOTHING FACTORIES SENTENCED TO PRISON AFTER CONVICTIONS FOR CONCEALING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FROM BANKRUPTCY COURT
	Toha Quan, Anna Wong	Sentenced	Quan: Four years in prison for committing bankruptcy fraud Wong: Fourteen months in prison for the same offenses
December 03, 2007	CUPERTINO EXPORT BROKER SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS FOR ILLEGALLY EXPORTING NATIONAL SECURITY-SENSITIVE TECHNOLOGY TO CHINA Defendant Brokered Illegal Sale of Night Vision Technology
	Philip Cheng	Sentenced	Two years in prison and ordered to pay a $50,000 fine for his role in brokering the illegal export of a night vision camera and its accompanying technology to China in violation of federal laws and regulations
November 2007
November 30, 2007	MANAGER OF SAN FRANCISCO AQUARIUM STORE PLEADS GUILTY TO SMUGGLING IN PROTECTED TURTLES FROM HONG KONG Man Caught at SFO With 14 Baby Fly River Turtles
	Coleman Lau	Guilty Plea	One felony count of smuggling and one felony count of making a false statement to a U.S. official
November 30, 2007	BAHAMIAN MAN CHARGED WITH FILING A $2.7 MILLION FALSE CLAIM WITH THE IRS
	Rudolph King	Charged	Presenting a claim to the IRS for refund of taxes in the amount of $2,700,000, knowing such claim to be false
November 29, 2007	WIFE OF FORMER TOP TEN MOST WANTED FUGITIVES SENTENCED FOR MAKING FALSE STATEMENTS TO FEDERAL AGENTS
	Maleka May	Sentenced	Six months home confinement as part of a three year term of probation and ordered to serve 240 hours of community service in lieu of a fine
November 29, 2007	SAN RAMON BOOKMAKER PLEADS GUILTY TO RUNNING ILLEGAL GAMBLING BUSINESS, MONEY LAUNDERING, AND TAX EVASION
	David Duckart	Guilty Plea	Two counts of conducting an illegal gambling business, two counts of money laundering, and three counts of tax evasion
November 20, 2007	SAN JOSE MAN CONVICTED OF CULTIVATING OVER 1000 MARIJUANA PLANTS AND ILLEGALLY POSSESSING OVER 30 FIREARMS, INCLUDING MACHINEGUNS Over 1000 Marijuana Plants and 30 Firearms – including Machineguns, Shotguns, Rifles, and Handguns - Were Found in Search after Domestic Violence Related 911 Call
	Kevin Dugan	Convicted	Manufacturing marijuana, possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute, maintaining a place for the purpose of manufacturing and distributing marijuana, and being an unlawful user or addict in possession of firearms
November 20, 2007	BELMONT MAN CHARGED WITH TRANSPORTATION AND POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
	Peter Lasell	Indicted	One count of transporting child pornography and one count of possessing child pornography
November 19, 2007	SAN FRANCISCO RESIDENT PLEADS GUILTY TO FILING FALSE CLAIMS WITH THE IRS Defendant filed false tax returns using names and social security numbers purchased from Craigslist
	Roger Mai	Guilty Plea	Seventeen counts of making or presenting false claims to the Internal Revenue Service
November 16, 2007	FORMER DANVILLE MAN SENTENCED TO NINE YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON AFTER PLEADING GUILTY TO PERPETRATING A MULTIMILLION DOLLAR FRAUD SCHEME
	Francis William “Bill” Reimers	Sentenced	108 months in prison as a result of Reimers’s guilty pleas to mail fraud and money laundering
November 15, 2007	BARRY BONDS INDICTED FOR PERJURY ARISING FROM HIS TESTIMONY IN THE BALCO INVESTIGATION Indictment also includes charge of obstruction of justice.
	Barry Bonds	Indicted	Four counts of perjury, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1623(a), and one count of obstruction of justice, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1503(a)
November 15, 2007	BICYCLIST CONVICTED OF ILLEGAL TRAIL RIDING IN PROTECTED WILDERNESS AREA
	Steven Gravenites	Convicted	Possession of a bicycle in a wilderness area
November 15, 2007	CEO OF START-UP COMPANY SENTENCED TO 30 MONTHS IN PRISON FOR TAX EVASION Failed to Report more than $1.1 Million of Income
	John Griffin	Sentenced	Thirty months in prison for his guilty plea to two counts of tax evasion
November 6, 2007	ED JEW, MEMBER OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, INDICTED ON CHARGES OF FRAUD, BRIBERY AND EXTORTION Indictment Alleges that City Supervisor Accepted Cash Bribes from Beverage Stores in San Francisco
	Edmund Jew	Indicted	Mail fraud, bribery, and extortion in connection with an alleged scheme to solicit cash bribes from two tapioca drink shops which had licensing issues with the San Francisco city government
November 2, 2007	SAN JOSE TAX PREPARER SENTENCED FOR PREPARING FALSE TAX RETURNS Defendant Banned for Life from Working as a Tax Consultant
	Jonathan Wendy	Sentenced	One year and one day in prison for aiding or inducing another to file a false tax return
November 1, 2007	MASTERMIND OF $314,000.00 SALINAS ROBBERY PLEADS GUILTY
	Jorge Lopez	Guilty Plea	Robbery in violation of the Hobbs Act and unrelated firearms charges
November 1, 2007	BELMONT MAN SENTENCED TO TEN YEARS OF IMPRISONMENT AND A LIFETIME OF SUPERVISED RELEASE FOR TRANSPORTING, RECEIVING, AND POSSESSING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY Agents Seized Computers from the Defendant on Three Successive Occasions in 2004 and 2005, Each Containing Numerous Images of Child Pornography
	Timothy Ockenfels	Sentenced	Ten years in prison for trafficking child pornography
November 1, 2007	CONCORD MAN CHARGED IN $13 MILLION MORTGAGE FRAUD SCHEME Defendant is Fugitive and Should be Considered Armed and Dangerous
	Edward Batayeh	Indicted	Executed a mortgage fraud scheme to defraud financial institutions of over $13 million and committed tax evasion
November 1, 2007	SAN FRANCISCO DOCTOR PLEADS GUILTY TO PERJURY
	Bruce Barker	Guilty Plea	Lying under oath during a federal criminal trial involving gun charges
October 2007
October 31, 2007	FORMER INVESTMENT BROKER RECEIVES 42 MONTHS PRISON FOR ROLE IN CD SCAM Many clients who purchased long-term “zero coupon” CDs were elderly
	Vincent Ferro	Sentenced	42 months in prison following his conviction for mail fraud
October 30, 2007	IRAs SEIZED AS PART OF MARIJUANA INVESTIGATION Marijuana, IRAs, Bank Accounts, High-Value Vehicles, and Real Property Seized; 2 Arrested in Hayward Operation
	Winslow Norton, Abraham Norton	Indicted	Conspiracy to distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana, distribution of marijuana, maintaining a drug involved premises, conspiracy to launder money, and money laundering
October 30, 2007	CHILD PORNOGRAPHY PEDDLER SENTENCED TO 12 YEARS IN PRISON Defendant’s Website Advertised and Sold Child Pornography
	Edward Harvey	Sentenced	Twelve years in prison for advertising child pornography and for transporting and possessing visual depictions of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct
October 29, 2007	GRANDMOTHER AND GRANDDAUGHTER TO APPEAR ON MAIL FRAUD CHARGES Two Defendants Allegedly Defrauded the Department of Housing and Urban Development of Over $126,000 During Eight-Year Scheme
	Lauton Joshua, Helen Lowe	Indicted	Ten counts of committing mail fraud
October 25, 2007	FOUR DEFENDANTS SENTENCED IN SCHEME TO DEFRAUD MICROSOFT CORPORATION “Operation Cyberstorm” Defendants Operated Scheme to Obtain Over $29 Million Worth of Discounted Software under False Pretenses
	Mirza Ali, Sameena Ali, Keith Griffen, William Glushenko	Sentenced	Devising a scheme to defraud Microsoft Corporation by obtaining discounted software under false pretenses
October 24, 2007	FEDERAL-LOCAL TASK FORCE DISMANTLES HUGE HEROIN RING 23 indicted by federal grand jury for conspiracy; approximately 500 law enforcement personnel join forces to conduct multiple searches and arrests
	Twenty-three individuals	Indicted	Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of heroin and use of a person under 18 to distribute a controlled substance and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number
October 22, 2007	SUNNYVALE MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO RECEIVING THOUSANDS OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY IMAGES OVER THE INTERNET Images Include Over 1,234 Pictures of Identified Children
	Erik Erdman	Guilty Plea	Receiving thousands of images of child pornography over the internet
October 22, 2007	OWNER OF LUCKY CHANCES CASINO PLEADS GUILTY TO TAX EVASION Agrees to pay more than $591,000 in additional taxes
	Rene Medina	Guilty Plea	Three counts of tax evasion
October 19, 2007	NAPA MAN INDICTED ON CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CHARGES
	Scott Sweeden	Indicted	Transporting and possessing child pornography
October 19, 2007	HUSBAND AND WIFE SENTENCED IN DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES CORRUPTION PROBE Investigation Resulted in 11 Defendants Pleading Guilty to Felony Charges
	Jose Ramirez, Raylynn Brooks	Sentenced	Ramirez: 18 months in federal prison Brooks: 5 years of probation
October 19, 2007	BAY AREA MAN SENTENCED TO SEVEN YEARS FOR PONZI SCHEME
	Patrick Foster	Sentenced	Seven years in prison for wire fraud
October 18, 2007	FORMER NETWORK APPLIANCE MANAGER PLEADS GUILTY TO EMBEZZLEMENT Former Transportation Manager Charged Son’s High School Tuition to the Company
	Bernadette Escue	Guilty Plea	Falsely using a corporate credit card to pay for her own personal expenses
October 16, 2007	SAN JOSE MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO MONEY LAUNDERING United States Attorney Urges People to Beware of “Chinese Inheritance” Scam
	Alex Wang	Guilty Plea	One count of money laundering
October 16, 2007	OPERATOR OF SUNNYVALE KOREAN HOSTESS BAR SENTENCED TO PRISON Defendant Harbored Aliens and Evaded Taxes on Income from Hostess Bar
	Sue Yun Song	Sentenced	Thirty months in prison, and ordered to pay $422,000.00 in restitution for her involvement in a conspiracy to harbor aliens and tax evasion
October 15, 2007	ASSISTANT PLEADS GUILTY TO $1.4 MILLION MAIL FRAUD AND TO FILING A FALSE TAX RETURN Fraud Victim Was Over Ninety Years Old
	Suzie Moy Yuen	Guilty Plea	Mail fraud and to filing a false tax return
October 15, 2007	DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ANNOUNCES INTERNET CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN TASK FORCES IN ALL 50 STATES
	Department of Justice	Announced	Thirteen new state and local law enforcement agencies will receive more than $3 million to form Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task forces in their regions
October 12, 2007	HUSBAND AND WIFE CONVICTED OF CONSPIRACY AND FRAUD FOR CAR INSURANCE SCAM Woman Also Convicted of Using Fire to Commit Wire Fraud for the Torching of their Car as Part of the Scam
	Louis Gonzalez, Katherine Paiz	Convicted	Conspiracy and Wire Fraud
October 12, 2007	FORMER UNITED STATES POSTAL WORKER SENTENCED TO 2 YEARS IMPRISONMENT FOR STEALING OVER $400,000 IN MONEY ORDERS
	Manuel A. Moreno	Sentenced	24 months imprisonment and pay restitution in the amount of $410,959.26 to the United States for stealing postal money orders
October 11, 2007	FOUR OWNERS OF ULTRASOUND COMPANIES SENTENCED IN MEDICARE FRAUD SCHEME AT MILPITAS MEDICAL CENTER Defendants Billed Medicare Over $1 Million For Tests Based On Falsified Physician’s Orders
	Alexander Dzhuga, Leonid Dzhuga, Vladimir Semenov, Natalia Stadnik	Sentenced	21 months in prison, 24 months in prison, 18 months in prison, six months of home confinement, 200 hours of community service and three years of probation.
October 11, 2007	BAY AREA MAN CHARGED WITH SEX TRAFFICKING OF A 16 YEAR OLD GIRL IN CONTRA COSTA AND MARIN COUNTIES
	Melvin Parker, Jr.	Charged	Sex Trafficking of a Minor
October 11, 2007	SAN FRANCISCO MAN CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
	Daniel Hickey	Charged	One count of possessing child pornography
October 9, 2007	FORMER MANAGER AT SAN JOSE MEDICAL GROUP SENTENCED TO 21 MONTHS IN PRISON FOR STEALING SENSITIVE MEDICAL AND PERSONAL INFORMATION OF 187,000 SOUTH BAY PATIENTS
	Joseph Harris	Sentenced	21 months in prison for stealing computer equipment in March 2005 from the San Jose Medical Group, including a DVD with sensitive medical and personal information for about 187,000 patients in the San Jose area
October 5, 2007	OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST MARION JONES PLEADS GUILTY TO MAKING FALSE STATEMENTS IN TWO SEPARATE FEDERAL CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS
	Marion Jones-Thompson	Guilty Plea	Making false statements to federal agencies in connection with two investigations conducted out of the Northern District of California and the Southern District of New York, respectively
October 4, 2007	SAN FRANCISCO RESIDENT CHARGED WITH 17 COUNTS OF FILING FALSE CLAIMS WITH THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE
	Roger Mai	Charged	17 counts of making or presenting false claims to the Internal Revenue Service
October 4, 2007	ILLEGAL ALIEN SEX OFFENDER SENTENCED TO 51 MONTHS IMPRISONMENT
	Francisco Castro-Salcedo	Sentenced	51 months in prison, followed by a three year term of supervised release
October 4, 2007	FORMER CAMPBELL BUSINESSMAN AND ASSOCIATES SENTENCED IN FRAUDULENT SCHEME TO SELL CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSITS Many clients who purchased long-term “zero coupon” CDs were elderly
	Mark Selby, Kummel Heir, Walter Zlotnicki	Sentenced	18 months in prison, five years probation, to include 12 months of home confinement and the payment of a $15,000 fine, two years probation
October 4, 2007	CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER OF INTERNET PHARMACY PLEADS GUILTY TO ILLEGAL DISTRIBUTION OF WEIGHT LOSS DRUGS OVER THE INTERNET
	Denis Leborgne	Guilty Plea	Conspiring to illegally distribute controlled substances, including phentermine
October 3, 2007	THREE MEN CHARGED WITH POSSESSING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
	Mark First, Kenneth Van Aalsburg, John Nagy	Charged	Possessing child pornography
October 3, 2007	ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL PETER D. KEISLER HONORS LOCAL SAN FRANCISCO ASSISTANT UNITED STATES ATTORNEY AT THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE’S ANNUAL AWARDS CEREMONY Assistant U.S. Attorney Stacey P. Geis receives honors
	Stacey Geis	Honored	Prosecution of Overseas Shipholding Group Inc.
October 2, 2007	SAN FRANCISCO WOMAN SENTENCED TO 50 MONTHS IN PRISON FOR IDENTITY THEFT AT BUSINESSES IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
	Myra Minks	Sentenced	50 months in prison for identity theft
September 2007
September 28, 2007	DUBLIN RETURN PREPARER CHARGED WITH TWELVE COUNTS OF PREPARING FALSE TAX RETURNS
	Steven Murdock	Charged	Twelve counts of preparing false and fraudulent tax returns
September 26, 2007	TWO FORMER NASA EMPLOYEES CHARGED WITH POSSESSING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY ON GOVERNMENT COMPUTERS
	Christopher Wiltsee and Mark Zelinsky	Charged	Possessing images of child pornography on their government computers
September 26, 2007	FORMER NETWORK APPLIANCE MANAGER CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLEMENT Former Transportation Manager of Network Appliance Corporation Charged Over $ 90,000 in Personal Expenses to Corporation
	Bernadette Escue	Charged	Embezzling over $90,000 by charging personal expenses to her company charge cards
September 26, 2007	TWO BAY AREA MEN INDICTED ON CHARGES OF ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE
	Lan Lee and Yuefei Ge	Indicted	Two substantive counts of economic espionage and two substantive counts of theft of trade secrets
September 20, 2007	ED JEW, MEMBER OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, CHARGED WITH MAIL FRAUD Complaint Alleges that City Supervisor Demanded Cash Payments from San Francisco Beverage Franchises
	Edmund Jew	Charged	Using the U.S. mails in furtherance of a scheme to deprive the public of their right to his honest services as an elected member of the Board of Supervisors for the City and County of San Francisco
September 20, 2007	MANHATTAN U.S. ATTORNEY CHARGES NORMAN HSU WITH $60 MILLION FRAUD SCHEME Hsu Also Accused of Using Straw Donors to Make Illegal Federal Campaign Contributions
	Norman Hsu	Charged	Perpetrating a massive Ponzi scheme that defrauded victims across the United States of over $60 million
September 19, 2007	FORMER DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AGENT INDICTED FOR MAKING A FALSE STATEMENT AND EXCEEDING AUTHORIZED ACCESS TO A GOVERNMENT DATABASE Defendant Used Department of Homeland Security Database to Track a Woman and her Family
	Benjamin Robinson	Indicted	Making a false statement to a government agency, and unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer
September 18, 2007	TIBURON MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO MAIL FRAUD, WIRE FRAUD AND AGGRAVATED IDENTITY THEFT
	Mark Davis	Guilty Plea	Two counts of mail fraud, two counts of wire fraud, and one count of aggravated identity theft
September 17, 2007	JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ASKS U.S. COURT IN CALIFORNIA TO HALT ALLEGED NATIONWIDE TAX FRAUD SCHEME Financial Advisers Allegedly Helped Clients Understate Taxes On Sales of Assets Worth More Than $1 Billion
	DOJ	Announcement	Request to halt alleged nationwide tax fraud scheme
September 17, 2007	DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ANNOUNCES MORE THAN $3.5 MILLION IN ANTI-GANG FUNDING TO CALFORNIA Funding Supports Efforts to Combat Gang Violence and Increase Prevention Efforts
	DOJ	Announcement	More than $3.5 million in anti-gang funding to California
September 17, 2007	PRODUCTION MANAGER AT FG INDUSTRY SENTENCED TO 15 MONTHS IN PRISON FOR SUBMITTING FALSE INVOICES AND ENTRY DOCUMENTS TO CUSTOMS
	Valeriana Au	Sentenced	15 months in prison, and ordered to pay $452,692.83 in restitution
September 13, 2007	HAYWARD CHIROPRACTOR PLEADS GUILTY TO TAX EVASION
	Ramon Reynoso	Guilty Plea	One count of tax evasion
September 10, 2007	MONTEREY MAN SENTENCED TO 10 YEARS FOR POSSESSION OF IMAGES OF MINORS ENGAGED IN SEXUALLY EXPLICIT CONDUCT OVER INTERNET
	Randy Snyder	Sentenced	10 years in prison for possession of child pornography
September 5, 2007	TWO DALY CITY MEN SENTENCED FOR PARTICIPATION IN SCHEME TO SELL COUNTERFEIT "DESIGNER" HANDBAGS ON EBAY
	Johnny Tan, Kevin Pua	Sentenced	Tan was sentenced on August 30, 2007 to 18 months in prison for money laundering and Pua was sentenced to a five-year term of probation for conspiracy
August 2007
August 28, 2007	SAN CARLOS MAN SENTENCED TO FOURTEEN YEARS FOR DISTRIBUTION OF METHAMPHETAMINE AND COCAINE
	Rafael Ramirez	Sentenced	Fourteen (14) years in prison, and five (5) years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine
August 27, 2007	FORMER HOSPITAL EXECUTIVE CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLEMENT Former Chief Financial Officer of Mee Memorial Hospital in Monterey Charged $ 96,000 in Personal Expenses to Hospital
	Richard Wheat	Charged	One count of wire fraud
August 24, 2007	EMERYVILLE LOAN OFFICER CHARGED IN KICKBACK SCHEME Failed to report more than $430,000 of income
	Renato Quiazon	Indicted	11 counts of wire fraud, 12 counts of money laundering and four counts of filing false tax returns
August 23, 2007	EMERYVILLE FINANCIAL ADVISOR PLEADS GUILTY TO WIRE FRAUD AND MONEY LAUNDERING
	Frank J. Garza, Jr.	Guilty Plea	Wire fraud and money laundering
August 20, 2007	DANVILLE DOCTOR SENTENCED IN CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD THE IRS
	LeRoy Lewis	Sentenced	24 months in prison, followed by a term of three years of supervised release
August 17, 2007	FUGITIVE SENTENCED TO SIX-AND-A-HALF YEARS IN PRISON FOR DISTRIBUTING COCAINE AND MONEY LAUNDERING
	Mario Azcarate	Sentenced	78 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute cocaine and for money laundering
August 10, 2007	BRINKS DRIVER RECEIVES 140 MONTHS FOR CONSPIRACY TO ROB ARMORED TRUCK Driver Planned Robbery of Armored Car He Was Driving
	Carlos Rodriguez	Sentenced	140 months imprisonment
August 09, 2007	DEFENDANT RECEIVES 58 MONTHS FOR ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF A STOLEN FIREARM
	Jermaine Tarver	Sentenced	58 months in prison
August 07, 2007	FORMER CEO OF BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC. CONVICTED OF SECURITIES FRAUD FOR BACKDATING OPTION GRANTS
	Gregory Reyes	Convicted	One count of conspiracy, four counts of securities fraud, four counts of lying to accountants and one count of false books and records relating to his scheme to backdate options grants to Brocade employees
August 07, 2007	CHICAGO-AREA MAN SENTENCED TO ONE YEAR AND ONE DAY IN PRISON FOR CRIMINAL COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT AS PART OF OPERATION COPYCAT Movies Downloaded From Internet Warez Site Were Sold In Defendant’s Retail Outlets Operation Has Yielded Thirty-Seven Convictions To Date
	Brian Verhoeven	Sentenced	One year and one day in prison, three year term of supervised release following the prison term and restitution in the amount of $145,128
August 06, 2007	SAN JOSE TAX PREPARER SENTENCED TO 24 MONTHS FOR DEFRAUDING THE GOVERNMENT Defendant Will Never Again Prepare Professional Tax Returns
	Melinda Newens	Sentenced	24 months in prison for aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns
August 06, 2007	REMAINING TWO DEFENDANTS SENTENCED IN LARGEST CD AND DVD MANUFACTURING PIRACY AND COUNTERFEITING SCHEME PROSECUTED IN THE UNITED STATES TO DATE Three Defendants Used Expensive Replication Equipment and Fake FBI Anti-Piracy Labels As Part Of a Massive Copyright and Trademark Infringement Scheme To Manufacture Pirated and Counterfeit Software and Music CDs and DVDs for Retail Distribution Around The Country Agents Seized Nearly 500,000 CDs and 6,135 Stampers Capable Of Producing More Than 300 Million Pirated and Counterfeit CDs and DVDs
	Ye Teng Wen, a.k.a. Michael Wen and Hao He, a.k.a. Kevin He	Sentenced	Each to 37 months of prison, a three-year term of supervised release, a $125,000 fine, and a $500 mandatory special assessment
August 03, 2007	SPECIALLY DESIGNATED GLOBAL TERRORIST AND HIS BROTHER INDICTED FOR PROVIDING MATERIAL SUPPORT TO TERRORISTS
	Zulkifli Abdhir	Indicted	Conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and providing material support to terrorists
August 02, 2007	FORMER CHINESE NATIONAL CONVICTED FOR COMMITTING ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE TO BENEFIT CHINA NAVY RESEARCH CENTER IN BEIJING AND FOR VIOLATING THE ARMS EXPORT CONTROL ACT First Conviction in the Country Involving Source Code Under the Arms Export Control Act; and Second Conviction in the Country Under the Economic Espionage Act of 1996
	Xiaodong Sheldon Meng	Guilty Plea	Violating the Economic Espionage Act (EAA) and violating the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)
July 2007
July 31, 2007	THIRD CONVICTION FOR CAMCORDING MOVIES IN A THEATER AND THIRD CONVICTION FOR VIOLATING THE DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT AS PART OF OPERATION COPYCAT Thirty-Sixth Copyright Conviction in Case
	Arshad Madhani	Convicted	Violating a statute which now prohibits the unauthorized copying of a movie in a movie theater using camcorder equipment
July 30, 2007	DEFENDANT PLEADS GUILTY TO IMPERSONATING IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT AGENT AND BEING A FELON IN POSSESSION OF A FIREARM
	Jeremy Brickner	Guilty Plea	One count of impersonating an agent of the United States and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm
July 27, 2007	FORMER UNITED STATES POSTAL EMPLOYEE SENTENCED TO TWELVE MONTHS IN PRISON FOR PUNCHING POSTAL POLICE OFFICER
	Darren Hercules	Sentenced	12 months imprisonment for assaulting U.S. Postal Police officers
July 27, 2007	ELEVEN BAY AREA RESIDENTS CHARGED WITH IDENTITY THEFT
	Andre Matthews, Tyhesia Bacon, Jerry Green, Alicia Johnson, Levi Enriquez, Kenyatta Williams, Ashaki Green, Kelvin Arnold, Cory Kautzman, Danielle Reyes, and Bobby Alexander	Charged	Conspiracy to unlawfully transfer or use a means of identification of another
July 25, 2007	ITALIAN SHIPPING COMPANY PLEADS GUILTY TO PRESENTING FALSE DOCUMENTS TO THE U.S. COAST GUARD
	Black Point Shipping	Guilty Plea	Presenting false documents to the United States Coast Guard
July 25, 2007	FORMER LOS GATOS RESIDENT SENTENCED TO 27 MONTHS IMPRISONMENT FOR ROLE IN $6.5 MILLION INVESTMENT SCHEME Used Investor Funds To Pay For Trips, Gifts, Luxury Automobiles
	Patricia Nolan	Sentenced	27 months in prison for her involvement in a $6.5 million fraudulent investment scheme
July 25, 2007	SECOND DEFENDANT SENTENCED IN $ 300,000.00 SALINAS ROBBERY Admitted Acting as Lookout During Robbery
	Jose Campos	Sentenced	66 months imprisonment
July 24, 2007	SANTA CRUZ MAN SENTENCED FOR DISTRIBUTING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY OVER THE INTERNET
	Mark Arnold	Sentenced	72 months imprisonment, to be followed by a five year term of supervised release
July 13, 2007	NURSING HOME OWNER SENTENCED TO 30 MONTHS IN PRISON FOR FAILING TO PAY MILLIONS IN PAYROLL TAXES TO THE IRS
	Jack Easterday	Sentenced	30 months in prison and ordered to pay $8,710,795.84 in restitution and a special assessment of $10,700 for his willful failure to pay employment taxes owed to the government
July 12, 2007	MIRANT ENERGY TRADING LLC TO PAY $11 MILLION PENALTY TO RESOLVE CRIMINAL ALLEGATIONS
	Mirant Energy Trading LLC	Agreement	$11 million penalty to the U.S. Treasury under the terms of the deferred prosecution agreement
July 12, 2007	TIMOTHY PHILLIPS PLEADS GUILTY TO THREE BAY AREA BANK ROBBERIES *Defendant Agrees to 14-Year Prison Sentence*
	Timothy Phillips	Guilty Plea	Committing three Bay Area bank robberies in a nine-day period in February 2006
July 10, 2007	RICHMOND MAN FOUND GUILTY OF POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE CRACK COCAINE IN SAN FRANCISCO PARK
	Jose Serrano	Convicted	Possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine
July 3, 2007	RETIRED U.S. ARMY CAPTAIN SENTENCED TO 15 YEARS IN PRISON FOR TRANSPORTING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
	Warren Crecy, Jr	Sentenced	180 months in prison for transporting child pornography
July 3, 2007	SAN JOSE MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO MAKING AND POSSESSING OVER $6,400 IN COUNTERFEIT UNITED STATES CURRENCY
	Frank Abila	Guilty Plea	Manufacturing thousands of dollars of counterfeit United States currency as well as possessing physical and electronic images of that currency
July 3, 2007	WIFE OF INDICTED DEFENDANT ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE FOR CREATING FALSE DOCUMENTS TO AID HUSBAND’S DEFENSE
	Debra Edison	Charged	Obstruction of justice for creating false documents to aid her husband’s defense
June 2007
June 22, 2007	FORMER F.E.M.A. SUPERVISOR AND U.S. COAST GUARD SUPERVISOR ARRAIGNED ON CHARGES OF CONSPIRACY AND ALTERING AND FALSIFYING RECORDS IN FEDERAL INVESTIGATION
	Yvonne O’Neal, LaVera Lincoln	Arraigned	Indictment charging them with conspiracy and alteration and falsification records in a federal investigation
June 22, 2007	PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT OF CIGARETTE COMPANY ARRAIGNED ON INDICTMENT CHARGING CONSPIRACY AND DEFRAUDING BANK IN EXCESS OF TEN MILLION DOLLARS
	Ned Roscoe, John Roscoe	Arraigned	Indictment charging them with conspiracy and five counts of bank fraud
June 22, 2007	CEO OF START UP COMPANY PLEADS GUILTY TO TAX EVASION Failed to Report more than $1.1 Million of Income
	John Griffin	Guilty Plea	Two counts of tax evasion
June 21, 2007	UNITED STATES ATTORNEY CLOSES INVESTIGATION INTO SPINACH PROCESSOR AND GROWERS: NO CHARGES FILED
	Spinach Growers	Investigation Closed	September 2006 E.coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to fresh spinach. No charges filed.
June 21, 2007	SAN FRANCISCO MAN INDICTED FOR BANK FRAUD AND AGGRAVATED IDENTITY THEFT IN CONNECTION WITH OBTAINING FINANCIAL PRODUCTS IN VICTIM’S NAME
	Antonio Musni	Indicted	Six counts of bank fraud, one count of mail fraud, one count of aggravated identity theft, and one count of unlawful use of unauthorized access devices
June 20, 2007	OPERATOR OF BAY AREA PIZZA PARLORS CHARGED FOR HARBORING ILLEGAL ALIEN WORKERS FROM BRAZIL
	Glenio Silva	Charged	Hiring illegal alien workers from Brazil and arranging for many of them to live at the businesses
June 14, 2007	TEXAS MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO TRANSPORTING A MINOR TO AND FROM CALIFORNIA FOR PURPOSES OF PROSTITUTION
	Franklin Bryant	Guilty Plea	Two counts of transporting a minor for purposes of prostitution and one count of transporting a person for purposes of prostitution
June 13, 2007	FORMER KOREAN HOSTESS BAR OPERATORS SENTENCED TO PRISON Defendants Harbored Aliens and Bribed Law Enforcement In Related Conspiracies
	Roger Li, Robert Wong	Sentenced	24 months imprisonment (Li) and 18 months imprisonment (Wong)
June 8, 2007	ROHNERT PARK MAN PLEADES GUILTY TO CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CHARGES
	John Aicega	Guilty Plea	Receipt and distribution of child pornography over the internet
June 7, 2007	FORMER CUSTOMER SERVICE MANAGER OF SALINAS BANK SENTENCED FOR CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT ROBBERY Admitted to Informing Co-Defendant Boyfriend of a $314,000 Cash Withdrawal
	Christina Flores	Sentenced	24 months incarceration for her role in a 2004 robbery in Salinas
June 6, 2007	McKINLEY MAN CONVICTED OF THE UNLAWFUL TAKING OF A HARBOR SEAL PUP
	Kenneth Eller	Conviction	Unlawful Taking of a Marine Mammal
May 2007
May 31, 2007	FORMER MANAGER AT SAN JOSE MEDICAL GROUP PLEADS GUILTY TO STEALING SENSITIVE MEDICAL AND PERSONAL INFORMATION OF 200,000 SOUTH BAY RESIDENTS
	Joseph Harris	Guilty Plea	Stealing computer equipment in March 2005 from the San Jose Medical Group
May 30, 2007	EAST BAY MAN SENTENCED TO EIGHT YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR RECEIVING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY Prison Term to be Followed by 10 Years of Supervised Release
	Tony Aflatooni	Sentenced	97 months in prison for receiving child pornography via the internet
May 24, 2007	PRESIDENT OF POSTAL WORKER UNION INDICTED FOR EMBEZZLING OVER $170,000 FROM UNION
	Graham P. Vane	Indicted	Embezzlement and making false statements to a government agency
May 24, 2007	FORMER OWNERS OF SAN FRANCISCO CLOTHING FACTORIES CONVICTED OF CONCEALING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FROM BANKRUPTCY COURT AND CREDITORS IN THREE SEPARATE BANKRUPTCIES Four month trial results in convictions
	Jimmy Quan	Convicted	Eleven felony counts, including conspiracy to conceal assets, the concealment of assets, bankruptcy fraud, the making of false statements, and money laundering regarding three separate bankruptcies
May 22, 2007	FORMER SAN MARTIN COUPLE PLEAD GUILTY TO FILING FALSE TAX RETURN Offshore corporations used to conceal income
	Michael Watts, Jan Watts	Guilty Plea	One count of filing a false tax return
May 21, 2007	DANVILLE DOCTOR PLEADS GUILTY TO CONSPIRING TO DEFRAUD THE IRS Agrees to pay back more than $900,000
	Leroy Albert Lewis	Guilty Plea	One count of conspiring to defraud the United States by impeding and impairing the IRS in the ascertainment and collection of income tax
May 21, 2007	OAKLAND LANDLORD SENTENCED FOR ALLOWING MARIJUANA TO BE GROWN ON MULTIPLE COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES IN OAKLAND
	Thomas Grossi, Sr.	Sentenced	30 months in federal prison and ordered to forfeit the sum of approximately $396,000
May 16, 2007	FORMER UCSF EMPLOYEE SENTENCED ON PUBLIC-CORRUPTION CHARGES
	Steven Donnelly	Sentenced	35 months imprisonment on public-corruption charges
May 16, 2007	SAN FRANCISCO GROCERY STORE OWNER CHARGED WITH FILING FALSE TAX RETURNS
	Fawzi Mahmoud Swalim	Indicted	Filing false tax returns from 2000 through 2002
May 10, 2007	FORMER CFO OF NETWORK ASSOCIATES, INC. CONVICTED OF SECURITIES FRAUD
	Prabhat Goyal	Convicted	Fifteen counts of securities fraud related violations
May 10, 2007	GRAND JURY INDICTS MASSACHUSETTS MAN FOR WIRE FRAUD AND MONEY LAUNDERING IN CONNECTION WITH MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR CISCO NETWORKING EQUIPMENT FRAUD Using False Identities and Private Mailboxes in at Least 39 States, Defendant Allegedly Carried out the Fraud Hundreds of Times
	Michael A. Daly	Indictment	Defrauding Cisco of computer networking equipment and engaging in money laundering
May 10, 2007	SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION EMPLOYEE ARRAIGNED ON CHARGES RELATED TO IMPROPERLY RECEIVING HOUSING ASSISTANCE Defendant Identified as a result of the HUD’s "FedRent Initiative"
	Marjorie Chatman	Arraigned	Indictment charging her with five counts of committing mail fraud
May 7, 2007	FORMER SUNNYVALE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICER SENTENCED TO ONE YEAR AND ONE DAY IMPRISONMENT Officer Used Official Position To Gain Sexual Benefits From Korean Hostess Bars
	David Lee Miller, Jr.	Sentenced	One year and one day in prison for his involvement in two separate conspiracies to commit extortion under color of official right
May 7, 2007	LOS ALTOS MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO TAX FRAUD Diverted Over Two Million Dollars of His Company’s Funds for Personal Use
	Inn-Chung Chen, aka Daniel Chen	Guilty Plea	Conspiracy to defraud the United States and filing a false tax return
May 4, 2007	CONVICTED CHILD MOLESTER PLEADS GUILTY TO POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY, FACES 10-YEAR MANDATORY MINIMUM PRISON TERM
	Clifford Durham	Guilty Plea	One count of possessing child pornography
May 4, 2007	WIFE OF TOP TEN MOST WANTED FUGITIVE CHARGED WITH MAKING FALSE STATEMENTS TO FEDERAL AGENTS
	Maleka May	Charged	Making false statements to federal agents
May 1, 2007	MARIJUANA GROWER SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS IMPRISONMENT
	James P. Chiaverini	Sentenced	Five years imprisonment and four years of supervised release for growing marijuana
April 2007
April 30, 2007	SANTA CRUZ MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO TRANSMISSION OF IMAGES OF MINORS ENGAGED IN SEXUALLY EXPLICIT CONDUCT OVER INTERNET
	Mark Arnold	Guilty Plea	Internet transmission of images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct
April 27, 2007	STEROID DEALER TO MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYERS PLEADS GUILTY Defendant Admits Distributing Performance-Enhancing Drugs to "Dozens" of MLB Players and Associates
	Kirk J. Radomski	Guilty Plea Criminal Information	Distribution of a Controlled Substance (Anabolic Steroids) and Money Laundering
April 27, 2007	FORMER FUGITIVE PLEADS GUILTY TO DISTRIBUTING COCAINE AND TO MONEY LAUNDERING
	Mario Azcarate	Guilty Plea	One count of possessing cocaine with the intent to distribute and one count of money laundering
April 25, 2007	MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO TRYING TO SMUGGLE OVER 2.5 POUNDS OF PURE METHAMPHETAMINE ON COMMERCIAL FLIGHT FROM SAN JOSE TO HAWAII
	Michael Cade	Guilty Plea	Possession with intent to distribute of 1,134 grams of pure methamphetamine
April 25, 2007	FORMER SUBSTITUTE TEACHER AND COACH SENTENCED TO 51 MONTHS IMPRISONMENT FOR TRAVELING TO HAVE SEX WITH A MINOR
	Ronald Sherman	Sentenced	51 months imprisonment
April 24, 2007	FELON VINCENT JONES SENTENCED TO 77 MONTHS FOR POSSESSING A .45 CALIBER SEMIAUTOMATIC PISTOL LOADED WITH 15 ROUNDS
	Vincent Jones	Sentenced	77 months imprisonment
April 24, 2007	PROFESSOR CHARGED WITH POSSESSING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
	Murdaugh Madden, Jr.	Charged	One count of possessing child pornography
April 19, 2007	SANTA CRUZ MAN SENTENCED TO 51 MONTHS FOR SEXUALLY ABUSING A MINOR WHILE SERVING AS A PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEER IN COSTA RICA First Prosecution of a Peace Corps Volunteer for Sexually Assaulting a Minor While Serving in the Peace Corps in a Foreign Country
	Timothy Obert	Sentencing	Fifty-one months in prison
April 19, 2007	CREATOR OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY WEBSITE PLEADS GUILTY TO ADVERTISING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY AND TO TRANSPORTING, AND POSSESSING VISUAL DEPICTIONS OF MINORS ENGAGING IN SEXUALLY EXPLICIT CONDUCT
	Edward Harvey, Jr	Guilty Plea	Advertisement of child pornography, transportation and attempted transportation of any visual depiction of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct; and possession of matters containing any visual depiction of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct
April 18, 2007	SECOND DEFENDANT PLEADS GUILTY IN $300,000.00 SALINAS ROBBERY
	Jose Lito Campos	Guilty Plea	Robbery in violation of the Hobbs Act
April 18, 2007	PRESIDENT OF SALINAS COMPANY CHARGED WITH TAX FRAUD AND UNLAWFUL STRUCTURING OF CURRENCY TRANSACTIONS
	Curtis Parry	Indictment	Three counts of tax evasion, three counts of filing false corporate tax returns and two counts of unlawful structuring of currency transactions
April 18, 2007	DEFENDANT PLEADS GUILTY IN WATSONVILLE GUN CASE
	Joseph Shopes	Guilty Plea	Possession of a Sawed-Off Shotgun
April 18, 2007	ATTEMPTED ROBBERY DEFENDANT SENTENCED TO 18 YEARS
	Eng Yong Feng	Sentencing	Eighteen years in prison for attempted robbery and use of a firearm during a crime of violence, resulting in death
April 13, 2007	PRESIDENT OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT COMPANY SENTENCED TO 12 MONTHS IN PRISON FOR TAX EVASION Ordered to pay $115,657 in Restitution
	Brian Aberle	Sentencing	Twelve months in prison, $3,000 fine and $115,657 in restitution
April 11, 2007	$75,000 FINE PAID FOR MAILING OF BUTTERFLY KNIVES
	Spyderco, Inc.	Guilty Plea, Sentencing	$75,000 criminal fine, $125 special assessment, forfeit all such knives
April 11, 2007	BAY AREA MAN SENTENCED TO 64 MONTHS IMPRISONMENT FOR TRAVELING TO HAVE SEX WITH A MINOR IN CAMBODIA
	Michael Koklich	Sentencing	64 Months Imprisonment
April 10, 2007	ARCATA BUSINESSWOMAN PLEADS GUILTY TO MILLION DOLLAR IDENTITY THEFT SCHEME
	Christina Kim	Guilty Plea	48 Counts of Fraud
April 9, 2007	"BROKER" SENTENCED FOR ROLE IN PROVIDING FRAUDULENT CALIFORNIA DRIVER LICENSES *DMV Corruption Probe Has Netted 10 Guilty Pleas*
	Adrian Gomez Zepeda	Sentencing	Eighteen months in federal prison
April 9, 2007	ADMINISTRATOR FOR UNION’S EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS SENTENCED TO PRISON Administrator embezzled $179,000 from union employee’s health care and pension plan
	James W. James	Sentencing	Six months prison and six months home detention for two counts of embezzlement
April 6, 2007	POSTAL WORKER PLEADS GUILTY TO STEALING OVER $400,000 IN MONEY ORDERS
	Manuel A. Moreno	Guilty Plea	Fraudulently Receiving Money Orders without Paying
April 6, 2007	FORMER COLMA CITY MAYOR AND COUNCILMAN PLEADS GUILTY TO PUBLIC CORRUPTION CHARGES Twenty-Year Colma City Councilman Admits Receiving Gifts
	Phillip J. Lum	Guilty Plea	Public Corruption Charges
April 6, 2007	CREDIT CARD COUNTERFEITER GETS FIVE YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON Lead Defendant Used Phony Credit Cards to Run Up Losses in Excess of $1,000,000 Co-Defendant Receives 4 Months in Prison
	Ming Li, Zhou Ru Tan	Sentencing	Li: Five years in prison, $50,000 fine, $10,000 restitution. Tan: Four months in prison, $1,000 fine
April 5, 2007	FORMER PRESIDENT AND CEO OF MODESTO REAL-ESTATE BROKERAGE SENTENCED TO PRISON TERM OF 108 MONTHS IN FRAUD CASE *Real-Estate Fraud Scheme Raised Millions of Dollars; Defendant Was Finalist for Naming Rights to San Francisco 49ers Football Stadium*
	Tony J. Daniloo	Sentencing	108 months in prison in connection with a scheme to defraud homeowners in the Bay Area and the Central Valley of millions of dollars in cash
April 3, 2007	JOSHUA WOLF COMPLIES WITH GRAND JURY SUBPOENA
	Joshua Wolf	Release	In custody for approximately seven months
April 3, 2007	ALAMEDA MAN SENTENCED TO 7 MONTHS PRISON FOR GROPING JUVENILE GIRL ON INTERNATIONAL AIRPLANE FLIGHT
	Benjamin Caniaveral	Sentencing	Seven months imprisonment for groping a 14-year old girl
March 2007
March 29, 2007	FORMER YOUTH SOCCER COACH INDICTED FOR TRANSPORTING AND POSSESSING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
	Kenneth Gibson	Indictment	One count of transporting child pornography and one count of possessing child pornography
March 28, 2007	THREE DOWN BELOW GANG MEMBERS SENTENCED
	Dornell Ellis, Don Johnson, Paris Ragland	Sentencing	RICO Charges, Consipriacy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances
March 27, 2007	FORMER USF EDUCATION DEAN SENTENCED TO 63 MONTHS IN PRISON FOR POSSESSING OVER 5,500 IMAGES OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY Former Professor William Garner Must Also Pay $50,000 Community Restitution to the San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center
	William T. Garner	Sentencing	63 months imprisonment; $50,000 community restitution; 3 years supervised release
March 23, 2007	DANVILLE MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO MULTIMILLION DOLLAR FRAUD SCHEME Admits He Caused Losses Exceeding $7 Million
	Francis William (“Bill”) Reimers	Guilty Plea	Mail Fraud and Money Laundering
March 23, 2007	U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE PARTNERS WITH THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN AND THE AD COUNCIL TO HELP PREVENT ONLINE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION New PSA Campaign Educates Teenage Girls About Potential Dangers of Sharing and Posting Personal Information Online
	New PSA Campaign	PSA Campaign	Online Sexual Exploitation of Children
March 14, 2007	FOUR MINNESOTA RESIDENTS CHARGED IN CALIFORNIA WITH SCHEME TO DEFRAUD CISCO OF COMPUTER NETWORKING EQUIPMENT *Defendants Allegedly Fraudulently Conspired to Obtain over $1,000,000 in Equipment From Cisco under the SMARTnet Service Contract Program*
	Mark B. Faris, Stephen D. Chicoine,Charles L. Lytle, Amy M. Ihrke	Indictment	Mail Fraud, Wire Fraud, Money Laundering
March 14, 2007	SAN JOSE MAN SENTENCED TO 17 YEARS IN DRUG TRAFFICKING SCHEME
	Michael Costa	Sentencing	17 years imprisonment for drug trafficking
March 13, 2007	DOWN BELOW GANG MEMBER SENTENCED TO 17.5 YEARS IN PRISON
	Robert Calloway	Sentencing	17.5 years imprisonment for murder and armed robbery
March 12, 2007	FORMER SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF AREA BANK SENTENCED TO 15 MONTHS FOR EMBEZZLEMENT
	Vivian Michelle Titus	Sentencing	15 months imprisonment, $188,714 in restitution for Bank Fraud
March 12, 2007	DANVILLE MAN CHARGED WITH MULTIMILLION DOLLAR INVESTMENT FRAUD
	William Frances (“Bill”) Reimers	Indictment	Mail Fraud and Money Laundering
March 9, 2007	SIX INDICTED IN RETAIL CRIME RING Estimated More Than 20 Tractor-Trailer Loads of Merchandise Seized
	Hassan Swaid, Sufian Al-Khalidi, Wahidullah Ahmadi, Mossleh Amari, Basheer Ammari, Mohammad Aldhufri	Indictment	Conspiracy to commit mail fraud and conspiracy to engage in interstate transportation of stolen goods
March 8, 2007	NURSING HOME OWNER CONVICTED ON 107 COUNTS OF FAILING TO PAY OVER $9.6 MILLION IN PAYROLL TAXES TO THE IRS
	Jack Easterday	Conviction	failure to pay $9.6 million in payroll taxes and tax fraud
March 7, 2007	THREE DOWN BELOW GANG MEMBERS SENTENCED TO PRISON
	Christopher Byes, age 26: sentenced to 6 years 5 months Ronnie Calloway, age 26: sentenced to 5 years and 10 months Allen Calloway, age 24: sentenced to one year and 9 months	Sentencing	conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, possessing numerous firearms in connection with the conspiracy to distribute narcotics
March 7, 2007	SAN FRANCISCO BROTHEL OWNER SENTENCED TO ONE YEAR IN PRISON FOR MONEY LAUNDERING
	Anthony Gar Lau	Sentencing	1 year imprisonment for money laundering
March 7, 2007	TOTAL OF $800,000 COLLECTED FOR NORTHERN COASTAL CALIFORNIA RESTORATION FUND *Twighlight Marine, Ltd., Pleads Guilty and to Pay $100,000 to Environmental Restoration Fund for Grossly Negligent Operation of a Vessel*
	Twilight Marine, Ltd.	Guilty Plea	Grossly Negligent Operation of a Vessel
March 5, 2007	HUSBAND AND WIFE CHARGED WITH $18 MILLION INVESTMENT SCHEME
	Rebecca M. Solomon and Terry R. Solomon	Indictment	Conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering
March 2, 2007	SAN PABLO MAN SENTENCED TO 78 MONTHS IN PRISON FOR TRANSPORTING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
	Larry Gene Elmore	Sentencing	78 Months imprisonment for transporting child pornography
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February 2007
February 28, 2007	MASSACHUSETTS MAN CHARGED WITH DEFRAUDING CISCO OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF COMPUTER NETWORKING EQUIPMENT
	Michael A. Daly	Complaint	Wire fraud and aiding and abetting
February 27, 2007	FORMER MCAFEE GENERAL COUNSEL INDICTED FOR STOCK OPTIONS BACKDATING
	Kent Roberts	Indictment	Mail fraud, wire fraud, making false SEC filings, falsifying books, records, and accounts
February 26, 2007	CUSTOMER SERVICE MANAGER OF SALINAS BANK PLEADS GUILTY TO ROBBERY
	Christina Marie Flores	Guilty Plea	Robbery
February 23, 2007	PRISON TIME FOR DANVILLE, CALIFORNIA DENTIST CONVICTED OF TAX FRAUD AND CONSPIRACY Hid $300,000 in Income from IRS in Offshore Bank Accounts
	Roy Albert Lewis	Sentencing	Tax Fraud and Conspiracy
February 15, 2007	JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENTS OF INTERIM UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS FOR THE SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN DISTRICTS OF CALIFORNIA
	Interim U.S. Attorneys Karen P. Hewitt and Scott N. Schools	Announcement	Justice Department Announces Appointments of Interim U.S. Attorneys
February 15, 2007	U.S. ATTORNEY KEVIN V. RYAN ANNOUNCED DEPARTURE
	U.S. Attorney Kevin V. Ryan	Announcement	U.S. Attorney Kevin V. Ryan Announced Departure
February 15, 2007	EIGHT INDICTED IN SANTA ROSA METHAMPHETAMINE RING
	Operation Emerald Web	Indictments	Trafficking of methamphetamine and other drugs
February 15, 2007	BELMONT MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO ALL TEN COUNTS OF AN INDICTMENT CHARGING HIM WITH TRANSPORTING, RECEIVING, AND POSSESSING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
	Timothy Jacob Ockenfels	Guilty Plea	Possession of child pornography over the Internet
February 14, 2007	MAN INDICTED FOR DEFRAUDING VICTIM OF OVER $2 MILLION
	Michael J. Edison	Indictment	Wire fraud
February 13, 2007	PRESIDENT OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT COMPANY PLEADS GUILTY TO TAX EVASION AND FILING FALSE TAX RETURN
	Brian Troy Aberle	Guilty Plea	tax evasion and filing a false corporate tax return
February 12, 2007	$1.5 MILLION PARTNERSHIP FORMED TO REHABILITATE AND RESTORE LEOPARD SHARK HABITAT IN SAN FRANCISCO BAY
	Kevin Thompson, Ira Gass, Vincent Ng, John Newberry, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Sion Lim	Sentencing	Violating the Lacey Act
February 9, 2007	EIGHT FACE CRIMINAL CHARGES AS AUTHORITIES CHARGE RETAIL CRIME RING Estimated More Than 20 Tractor-Trailer Loads of Merchandise Seized
	Hassan Swaid, Sufian Al-Khalidi, Wahidullah Ahmadi, Mossleh Amari, Nabil Munasar Al Zoqari, Basheer Ammari, Munasar Alzoqari, Mohammad Aldhufri	Criminal Complaint	Conspiracy to commit mail fraud and conspiracy to engage in interstate transportation of stolen goods
February 6, 2007	DANVILLE TRUST PROMOTER SENTENCED TO 21 MONTHS FOR AIDING IN PREPARATION OF FALSE TAX RETURN
	Robert Douglas Hazen	Sentencing	Aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false tax return
February 6, 2007	BROTHER AND SISTER SENTENCED FOR PREPARING FALSE TAX RETURNS
	Keneth Grimes, Brenda Allen	Sentencing	Fraudulent tax preparation schemes utilizing false and inflated deductions
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January 2007
January 25, 2007	THREE CHARGED IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CASINO HEIST Heist Involved Elaborate Scheme to Steal $198,000 from the Vault in a Caged Security Room at the Casino
	Peter Daniel Collins, Emily Katherine Weitze, Daniel Ivan Porte	Indictment Criminal Complaint	Theft of over $1000 from an Indian Casino
January 23, 2007	PASTOR SENTENCED TO ONE YEAR IN PRISON FOR ROLE IN SCHEME TO POACH AND SMUGGLE LEOPARD SHARKS
	Kevin Thompson	Sentencing	One year and one day in prison; $100,000 restitution for role in scheme to poach and smuggle leopard sharks
January 22, 2007	EUREKA MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO PASSING COUNTERFEIT $100 BILLS
	Rickie Shane Cook	Guilty Plea	Passing $1,100 in counterfeit United States currency
January 18, 2007	FORMER UCSF EMPLOYEE PLEADS GUILTY TO PUBLIC-CORRUPTION CHARGES
	Steven Donnelly	Guilty Plea	Theft of Honest Services Mail Fraud
January 12, 2007	HUMBOLDT COUNTY MAN SENTENCED TO TEN YEARS IMPRISONMENT FOR MARIJUANA CULTIVATION *Defendant Possessed and Manufactured Over 1,000 Marijuana Plants*
	Timothy Dellas	Sentencing	Ten years in prison and five years supervised release for manufacturing marijuana and possessing marijuana with the intent to distribute
January 12, 2007	FIRST CONVICTION IN HEWLETT PACKARD PRETEXTING INVESTIGATION
	Bryan C. Wagner	Guilty Plea	Conspiracy, Aggravated Identity Theft
January 11, 2007	FOUR ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF ILLEGALLY DISTRIBUTING ADDICTIVE DRUGS VIA AN INTERNET PHARMACY
	Andrew Thomas Russo, Denis Leborgne, David John, John Tuite	Indictment	Selling and distributing addictive drugs, including the weight loss drug, phentermine, without requiring customers to obtain an appropriate prescription
January 10, 2007	CRIMINAL INFORMATION: BRYAN C. WAGNER (HEWLETT PACKARD PRETEXTING INVESTIGATION)
	Bryan C. Wagner	Criminal Information	Conspiracy, Aggravated Identity Theft, Aiding and Abetting.
January 10, 2007	FIVE PLEAD GUILTY IN MEDICARE FRAUD SCHEME AT MILPITAS MEDICAL CENTER
	Armond Tennyson Tollette II, Alexander Dzhuga, Leonid Dzhuga, Vladimir Semenov, Natalia Stadnik	Guilty Plea	Medicare Fraud
January 10, 2007	NURSING HOME OWNER CHARGED WITH 109 COUNTS OF FAILING TO PAY OVER $10 MILLION IN PAYROLL TAXES TO THE IRS
	Jack Easterday	Superseding Information	Failure to pay taxes
January 5, 2007	FORMER CHAIRMAN AND CEO OF TECHNOLOGY COMPANY SENTENCED TO 17 YEARS Initially Charged with Perjury; Defendant Was Later Arrested with Egyptian Passport and $20,000; While in Jail, Defendant Attempted to Intimidate Witnesses and Solicited the Arson of Witness’ Car
	Amr Mohsen	Sentencing	17 years imprisonment, 5 years supervised release, restitution
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