All Latest Smuggling News
The son of Ecuador’s former comptroller general has avoided trial by pleading guilty to a multimillion-dollar scheme to launder money on behalf of his father, Carlos Roman Polit Faggioni (Carlos Polit).
Jeromy Pittmann, a 53-year-old man from Pensacola, Florida, and a Navy Reserve officer, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for his role in a years-long bribery scheme involving Special Immigrant Visas (SIV) for Afghanistan nationals.
Sean Blake, an inspiring young man from Burlington, Vermont, had his whole life ahead of him. As described by his mother on a website called “For Kindness,” he was a poet, writer, and chef who gave gifts of stories, letters, and recipes.
Cameron Darrick Peterson, 20, from New Braunfels, Texas, pleaded guilty on Oct. 21 in a San Antonio federal court to one count of attempting to obtain a firearm to commit a federal crime, according to a DOJ press release. The plea came four months after Peterson was arrested after he made false statements on an […]
TD Bank, the 10th largest bank in the United States, and its parent company, TD Bank US Holding Company, pleaded guilty and agreed to pay over $1.8 billion in penalties to resolve the Justice Department’s investigation into violations of the Bank Secrecy Act and money laundering, according to a public statement published by the Justice […]
A former Department of Defense (DOD) employee pleaded guilty on Oct. 23 to mishandling classified documents, including top secret materials, while employed at the Department of Defense, according to a Justice Department press release.
Jin Guanghua, a 53-year-old Chinese national, was extradited from Australia to the United States on Sept. 27, according to a public statement by the Justice Department.
Three Iranian nationals were charged for violating U.S. sanctions against Iran. One has been arrested, while the other two are still at large.
A federal jury has indicted Abouzar Rahmati, a 42-year-old resident of Great Falls, Virginia, and former Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employee, of charges including “acting and conspiring to act as an agent of the Iranian government” in the U. S. without prior notice to the Attorney General, according to a Justice Department press release.
A former American Airlines mechanic was sentenced to nine years in prison earlier this month for his role in a conspiracy to import and possess cocaine, according to a press release by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of New York.
Despite thousands of investigations and interdictions, prisoners still retain the ability to smuggle drugs into incarceration facilities– at least in Georgia state prisons.
You can’t get around transferring sensitive technology to a sanctioned country by hiding it in your checked luggage.
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