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government. Joyce Dudley, the district attorney in Santa Barbara County, Calif., announced Friday that her office's bid to extradite the former Hollywood actor and his wife, Evi, has been denied by the U.S. Department of Justice. "In declining to seek extradition, the USDOJ noted the resource intensive and lengthy process involved in seeking extradition from Canada," Dudley said in a news release. "They further stated that extradition is generally reserved for more serious offences than that with which the Quaids have been charged." In September 2010, the Quaids were arrested in California and charged with felony vandalism and misdemeanor trespass, accused of causing more than $5,000 damage at a home they once owned. They were released after posting bail. But when they failed to show up in court, their bail bonds were forfeited and warrants were issued for their arrest. "This is consistent with what our clients have been saying all along that they have done nothing wrong," said the Quaids' lawyer, Catherine Sas. The couple was arrested the following month in Vancouver. In a bizarre twist, both submitted claims for refugee status, claiming that they were being hunted down by celebrity killers or "star whackers."

US Department of Justice Declines to Seek Extradition of Actor Rand Quaid Earlier this year, Evi Quaid of Montreal obtained full Canadian citizenship through her father and announced He's avoided the crosshairs of that she had begun the process of Man Wanted celebrity killers and now it sponsoring her husband. appears Randy Quaid has escaped The Oscar-nominated Quaid is for Murder the clutches of the U.S. best known for his role as Cousin
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Eddie in the National Lampoon's Vacation movies, but he has also appeared in Brokeback Mountain, Kingpin and Independence Day. In recent months, Randy Quaid has made public appearances performing in a band. In April, the couple also debuted their "highly experimental" docu-drama called Star Whackers. According to the Santa Barbara district attorney, bench warrants for the Quaids remain out and "should the Quaids return to the United States, they will be arrested." This article was written by Douglas Quan and published by the Vancouver Sun on July 15, 2011. To find additional global criminal news, please read The Global Criminal Defense Daily. Douglas McNabb and other members of the U.S. law firm practice and write extensively on matters involving Federal Criminal Defense, INTERPOL Red Notice Removal, International Extradition and OFAC SDN List Removal. The author of this blog is Douglas McNabb. Please feel free to contact him directly at mcnabb@mcnabbassociates.com or at one of the offices listed above.

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Court Blocks US Extradition

Quebec's highest court has blocked the extradition of a 20year-old Montreal man wanted in Florida in connection with the murder of his friend's uncle, saying the penalty he would receive in the U.S. if convicted may be too severe. U.S. prosecutors claim that in 2007, when Francis Doyle Fowler was 16-years-old , he helped murder his friend's uncle, bury the man's body and try to get rid of his truck. Fowler and his friends allegedly bragged about the crimes to a man who later notified police in Florida. Fowler, who holds both U.S. and Canadian citizenship, left Florida to live with his mother in Montreal after the killing. In 2009, U.S. officials applied to extradite Fowler so he could be tried in Florida. Canada originally agreed to extradite him but a month later the Quebec Court of Appeals ordered the federal justice minister to revisit the decision. Canada's justice minister had agreed to extradite Fowler after U.S. officials said they'd charge him with second degree murder avoiding the death penalty. In Canada, Fowler would serve no more than seven years because he was a juvenile but in Florida there is no parole for juveniles or adults. The state abolished its parole

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system four years before the murder. The appeal court said the minister didn't pay attention when Fowler's lawyers pointed that out. The court has ruled Canada should only return Fowler to the U.S. if the federal minister is given assurances from the U.S. that Fowler, if convicted, would be paroled in a reasonable amount of time. One of Fowler's alleged accomplices, who was 19 at the time of the crimes, has already been sentenced to 40 years in a U.S. prison. This article was published by CBC News Canada on July 15, 2011. To find additional global criminal news, please read The Global Criminal Defense Daily. Douglas McNabb and other members of the U.S. law firm practice and write extensively on matters involving Federal Criminal Defense, INTERPOL Red Notice Removal, International Extradition and OFAC SDN List Removal. The author of this blog is Douglas McNabb. Please feel free to contact him directly at mcnabb@mcnabbassociates.com or at one of the offices listed above.

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Mentor Investing Group, Inc., initially located in San Diego and later Panama City, Panama. He later owned and was chairman and chief executive officer of First Capital Savings & Loan, Ltd., which he incorporated in 2007 in New Zealand and which took over Mentors purported business and investor accounts. Both businesses claimed to buy and sell foreign currencies (Forex trading) and offered and sold investments through a network of salesmen and investor referrals. According to the indictment, between August 2004 and June 2009, Lowrance and others at his direction fraudulently solicited investments by making material misrepresentations, including the profitability of First Capitals Forex trading, the expected return on and risk involved with the investments, and the use of funds raised from investors. To conceal the fraud, he allegedly made Ponzi-type payments to investors and provided investors with fraudulent account statements. Among the specific alleged misrepresentations was that investors would be paid as much as four to seven percent interest per month on their investments. Lowrance allegedly used only a small portion of investors funds to do Forex trading. In addition to making Ponzi-type payments to investors, he allegedly misused investors funds to pay First Capitals expenses, expenses of unrelated business ventures including a newspaper, and to make payments for his own benefit as the benefit of his family and associates. The government is being represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jacqueline Stern. Each count of wire and mail fraud and money laundering carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, and restitution is mandatory. The Court may also impose a fine totaling twice the loss to any victim or twice the gain to the defendant,

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Former Forex Trader Extradited from Peru to US to Face Charges of Swindling $5 Million from 400 Victims in

A U.S. citizen who allegedly operated a foreign currency trading fraud scheme while living in Panama obtaining more than $25 million, with losses totaling at least $5 million, from some 400 investors nationwide, when the scheme collapsed in 2009 was extradited from Peru to face federal fraud charges in Chicago. The defendant, Jeffery Lowrance, pleaded not guilty today at his arraignment, following his arrival yesterday from Peru, where he was arrested earlier this year and had lived intermittently since 2004 and continuously since 2009. He was ordered to remain in federal custody pending a detention hearing on July 25 in U.S. District Court. Lowrance, 50, was initially charged in a criminal complaint filed in 2009, and he was indicted in August 2010 on five counts of mail fraud, one count of wire fraud, and four counts of money laundering. The indictment, which also seeks forfeiture of at least $5 million, was unsealed earlier this year when Lowrance was arrested in Lima, Peru. The charges were announced by Patrick J. Fitzgerald, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois; Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and Alvin Patton, Special Agent-inCharge of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division in Chicago. Also today, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced the filing of separate civil enforcement actions against Lowrance and his businesses. Lowrance owned

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whichever is greater. If convicted, however, the Court must impose a reasonable sentence under the advisory United States Sentencing Guidelines. The investigation falls under the umbrella of the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force, which includes representatives from a broad range of federal agencies, regulatory authorities, inspectors general, and state and local law enforcement who, working together, bring to bear a powerful array of criminal and civil enforcement resources. The task force is working to improve efforts across the federal executive branch, and with state and local partners, to investigate and prosecute significant financial crimes, ensure just and effective punishment for those who perpetrate financial crimes, combat discrimination in the lending and financial markets, and recover proceeds for victims of financial crimes. An indictment contains only charges and is not evidence of guilt. The defendant is presumed innocent and is entitled to a fair trial at which the government has the burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. This article was released by the US Attorneys Office on July 15, 2011. To find additional global criminal news, please read The Global Criminal Defense Daily. Douglas McNabb and other members of the U.S. law firm practice and write extensively on matters involving Federal Criminal Defense, INTERPOL Red Notice Removal, International Extradition and OFAC SDN List Removal. The author of this blog is Douglas McNabb. Please feel free to contact him directly at mcnabb@mcnabbassociates.com or at one of the offices listed above.

Monday, July 18, 2011