WASHINGTON – A Houston federal jury today convicted Robert Allen Stanford, the former Board of Directors Chairman of Stanford International Bank (SIB), for orchestrating a 20-year investment fraud scheme in which he misappropriated $7 billion from SIB to finance his personal businesses.
The guilty verdict was announced by Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson of the Southern District of Texas; FBI Assistant Director Kevin Perkins of the Criminal Investigative Division; Assistant Secretary of Labor for the Employee Benefits Security Administration Phyllis C. Borzi
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One person was killed and another was slightly wounded in two shooting incidents Wednesday night.
One of the incidents occurred in Ventura and another took place in Oxnard less than half an hour later.
Oxnard police said a 19-year-old man was critically wounded and later was pronounced dead at a hospital after a shooting along the 2000 block of San Benito Street on the southeast side of the city.
Authorities said the shooting in the Lemonwood neighborhood occurred at 9:04 p.m.
After the shooting, police surrounded the area along San Benito Street but said they had made no arrests as of late Wednesday.
Earlier, there was a report of gunfire on the west end of Ventura.
Police said that at 8:38 p.m., they received calls about gunshots in the 100 block of West Prospect Street.
A description of a vehicle was given by one of the callers, and such a vehicle was seen by an officer en route to the shooting site.
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The Fresno County Coroner’s Office identified the man who died in a shooting early Sunday morning in central Fresno as Cedric Blair, 26, of Fresno.
Blair and another man were shot near 11th Street and Gettysburg Avenue, likely while attending a party, according to Fresno police. The other man, whose name was not released, is expected to survive.
The California Assembly spent nearly $200,000 in public funds fighting against release of member-by-member budgets allocating tens of millions in public funds, records show.
Assembly administrator Jon Waldie said the sum does not include hundreds of hours, perhaps more than a thousand hours, consumed by Capitol employees in gathering records ultimately ordered released by a Sacramento court.
Sacramento Superior Court Judge Timothy Frawley ruled in December against the Assembly in the public-records suit filed by The Bee and Los Angeles Times.
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WASHINGTON – An assistant administrator of a Houston hospital was arrested today on charges related to his alleged participation in a $116 million Medicare fraud scheme involving false claims for mental health treatment, announced the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
An indictment filed in the Southern District of Texas and unsealed today charges Mohammed Khan, 62, of Houston, with one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, one count of conspiracy to pay and receive illegal health care kickbacks and five counts of paying or offering to pay health care kickbacks. Khan is expected to make his initial appearance in federal court today in Houston.
“The indictment against Mr. Kahn alleges that he used his position as a hospital assistant adm
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