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Former NJ Firefighter Sentenced to Prison for Tax Evasion
Matthew Fox, a former Atlantic City, N.J., firefighter, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Jerome B. Simandle in Newark, N.J., the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have announced. Fox was also sentenced...
Three Guantanamo Bay Detainees Transferred to Foreign Nations
The Department of Justice has announced that three detainees have been transferred from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the control of the governments of Ireland and Yemen. As directed by the President’s Jan. 22, 2009 Executive Order, the...
Man Indicted on a Charge of Conspiracy to Use Weapons of Mass Destruction in the United States
The Justice Department has announced that Najibullah Zazi, 24, a resident of Aurora, Colo., and legal permanent resident of the United States from Afghanistan, has been indicted in the Eastern District of New York on a charge of conspiracy to use weapons...
U.S. Transfers 2 Guantanamo Bay Detainees to the Government of Portugal
The Department of Justice has announced that two Syrian nationals have been transferred from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the control of the government of Portugal. As directed by the President’s Jan. 22, 2009 Executive Order, the interagency...
Former NY State Supreme Court Justice Convicted of Attempted Extortion And Bribery
Former New York State Supreme Court Justice Thomas J. Spargo has been convicted by a federal jury in Albany, N.Y., of attempted extortion and soliciting a bribe. Spargo, 66, was convicted following a three-day jury trial. Evidenced introduced at trial...
Texas Man Indicted in Child Pornography Case
Mark Edwin Cairnes, 51, of Jonestown, Texas, has been charged with advertising, receiving and possessing child pornography. A grand jury in the Western District of Texas returned the indictment against Cairnes on July 21, 2009, which was unsealed after...
Spokane Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for His Activity in a Global Child Pornography Trafficking Enterprise
Warren Mumpower of Spokane, Wash., has been sentenced to life in prison for his activity in a global child pornography trafficking enterprise. Mumpower, 65, was also ordered to pay a $25,000 fine by Senior U.S. District Judge Lacey A. Collier. Mumpower,...
Cocaine Traffickers Receive 235 Months in Prison on Drug Charges
Rene Oswald Cobar, a Guatemalan national, and Luis Angel Gonzalez-Largo, a Colombian national, have each been sentenced to 235 months in prison on federal drug charges. Cobar and Gonzalez-Largo were sentenced by U.S. District Judge James C. Mahan for...
