Wire Fraud

Kenneth A. Dachman has been indicted on federal charges for allegedly fraudulently obtaining approximately $4 million from more than 50 investors in a now-defunct sleep disorder businesses that he operated. Dachman was charged with 11 counts of wire fraud. He allegedly misappropriated at least $2 million of co-mingled funds from investors and the companies to benefit himself and his family. 

A former employee of the United Nations has been arrested for allegedly obtaining more than $100,000 in salary payments as a result of holding jobs at the UN and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) at the same time. 

A former senior clerk of court for the State of Minnesota’s Fourth Judicial District has been sentenced for failing to provide the state and its citizens honest services by improperly dismissing traffic citations and pocketing associated funds. U.S. District Court Judge Donovan W. Frank sentenced Abdulkadir Mohamoud Afrah to 21 months in prison on one count of honest services wire fraud.

Jeremey Parker, who hacked into computer networks at NASA and at a Minnesota business, is going to prison for 24 months after he pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud. 

Last Monday, Rufus Paul Harris was on trial in Atlanta facing charges of securities fraud, wire fraud, falsifying financial statements, and conspiracy. It was the eighth day of a jury trial. He fled. 

Think all those coupons for cents off here and cents off there are insignificant? Think again. The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, says that Lucas Townsend Henderson created, disseminated and used counterfeit online coupons for consumer and electronic goods ranging from Tide laundry detergent to PlayStations.

As we have noted, the federal government has charged 11 defendants, including the founders of the three largest Internet poker

Lyndon Lydell Parrilla has been charged with wire fraud arising out of the operation of Green Tree Capital. According to the federal complaint against him, Parrilla, through Green Tree, solicited more than $5 million from customers, purportedly for the purpose of trading in the foreign currency exchange (“FOREX”) market.

A man who falsely promised bartending and “mystery shopper” jobs to people around the country has been sentenced to serve six years in federal prison for operating the scheme that took more than $6 million from thousands of victims across the United States. 

Six individuals – including a securities attorney – have been charged with defrauding investors in a stock manipulation scheme from 2003 to 2008.