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Joshua Beall is Charged in a Federal Criminal Complaint with Alleged Two Counts of Bank Robbery, 18 USC 2113(a)
McNabb Associates, P.C. (Federal Criminal Defense Lawyers)
Submitted at 2:37 PM January 3, 2012

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on January 3, 2012 released the following: Resident of Columbus Halfway House Charged in Two Bank Robberies Edward J. Hanko, Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the Cincinnati Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); and Carter M. Stewart, U.S. Attorney, Southern District of Ohio, announced that Joshua Beall, age 23, who most recently resided at Alvis House, a Columbus halfway house, has been charged in a federal complaint with two counts of violating Title 18, U.S. Code Section 2113(a), bank robbery. Each count carries a maximum punishment of 20 years imprisonment. Beall was arrested on December 23, 2011 by an officer of the Riverside, Ohio Police Department at his mothers residence at Riverside. He was held for violation of the terms of his parole until December 30 when he was arrested on the charges contained in this complaint. Beall received an Initial Appearance in U.S. Magistrates Court in Dayton this afternoon and was ordered held pending further proceedings. The complaint alleges that on November 17, 2011 Beall, wearing a black dreadlocks wig and dark sunglasses and

utilizing a demand note, robbed the First Financial Bank, 6325 Brandt Pike, Huber Heights, Ohio of an undisclosed amount of U.S. currency. The complaint also alleges that Bealls brother, R.L. Beall of Riverside, Ohio, cased the bank by entering it shortly before the robbery and inquiring about opening an account. R.L. Beall has not been charged in this matter at this time. The complaint further alleges that on December 19, 2011 Beall, wearing another black wig, and again utilizing a demand note, robbed the U.S. Bank, 1220 Columbus Avenue, Washington Courthouse, Ohio of approximately $7,200. Beall was arrested after Alvis House personnel contacted the Columbus FBI Office on December 23, 2011 upon seeing news reports which depicted surveillance photos from the two bank robberies. Investigation led to Bealls arrest that same day. SAC Hanko and U.S. Attorney Stewart commended Alvis House personnel for contacting the FBI. They also thanked news media organizations which publicized the surveillance photographs. In addition the Huber Heights, Washington Courthouse, West Chester, Kettering, Springfield, and Riverside Police Departments provided invaluable assistance during the investigation. The investigation is continuing in this

matter. The public is reminded that criminal complaints contain only allegations of criminal misconduct and that a defendant is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Douglas McNabb McNabb Associates, P.C.s Federal Criminal Defense Attorneys Videos: Federal Crimes Be Careful Federal Crimes Be Proactive Federal Crimes Federal Indictment Federal Crimes Detention Hearing To find additional federal criminal news, please read Federal Crimes Watch Daily. Douglas McNabb and other members of the U.S. law firm practice and write and/ or report extensively on matters involving Federal Criminal Defense, INTERPOL Red Notice Removal, International Extradition and OFAC SDN Sanctions 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.

Maersk Line to Pay Us $31.9 Million to Resolve False Claims Allegations for Inflated Shipping Costs to Military in Afghanistan and Iraq
(USDOJ: Justice News)
Submitted at 4:21 PM January 3, 2012

Assistant Attorney General Laurie Robinson Announces Departure from Office of Justice Programs
(USDOJ: Justice News)
Submitted at 7:13 PM January 3, 2012

US Files Complaint Against National Chain of Hospice Providers Alleging False Claims on the Medicare Program
(USDOJ: Justice News)
Submitted at 3:18 PM January 3, 2012

Maersk Line Limited has agreed to pay the government $31.9 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims to the United States in connection with contracts to transport cargo in shipping containers to support U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Laurie Robinson, announced today that she would be leaving her position at the end of February

The United States has intervened and filed a complaint in a whistleblower suit against AseraCare Hospice, the Justice Department announced today.

Former Assisted Living Facility Chain CEO Pleads Guilty to Tax Fraud Conspiracy
(USDOJ: Justice News)
Submitted at 4:43 PM January 3, 2012

Ronald E. Burrell, former chief executive

officer of Caremerica Inc., pleaded guilty today to conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service.

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Eugene DeBerger is Charged in a Federal Criminal Complaint with Alleged Infringement of Copyright for Purposes of Private Financial Gain
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Submitted at 4:28 PM January 3, 2012

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on January 3, 2012 released the following: Rochester Man Charged with Copyright Infringement ROCHESTER, NY U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Eugene DeBerger, 59, of Rochester, N.Y., was charged by criminal complaint with knowing infringement of copyright for purposes of private financial gain. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a fine of $250,000. Assistant U.S. Attorney Tiffany H. Lee, who is handling the case, stated that according to the complaint, between January 2007 and August 2010, the defendant bought legal copies of DVD movies and burned copies on his home computer. DeBerger then sold over 7,000 copies online at a greatly reduced price. Todays charges are part of a larger department-wide effort led by the Department of Justice Task Force on Intellectual Property (IP Task Force). Attorney General Eric Holder created the

IP Task Force to combat the growing number of domestic and international intellectual property crimes, protect the health and safety of American consumers, and safeguard the nations economic security against those who seek to profit illegally from American creativity, innovation and hard work. The IP Task Force seeks to strengthen intellectual property rights protection through heightened criminal and civil enforcement, greater coordination among federal, state and local law enforcement partners, and increased focus on international enforcement efforts, including reinforcing relationships with key foreign partners and U.S. industry leaders. To learn more about the IP Task Force, go to http://www.justice.gov/dag/ iptaskforce/. The criminal complaint is the culmination of an investigation on the part of the special agents from Federal Bureau of Investigation under the direction of Christopher M. Piehota, Special Agent in Charge. The fact that a defendant has been charged with a crime is merely an accusation and the defendant is presumed

innocent until and unless proven guilty. Douglas McNabb McNabb Associates, P.C.s Federal Criminal Defense Attorneys Videos: Federal Crimes Be Careful Federal Crimes Be Proactive Federal Crimes Federal Indictment Federal Crimes Detention Hearing To find additional federal criminal news, please read Federal Crimes Watch Daily. Douglas McNabb and other members of the U.S. law firm practice and write and/ or report extensively on matters involving Federal Criminal Defense, INTERPOL Red Notice Removal, International Extradition and OFAC SDN Sanctions 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.

FBI Didnt Need Warrant, Judge Says

McNabb Associates, P.C. (Federal Criminal Defense Lawyers)
Submitted at 9:48 AM January 3, 2012

Courthouse News Service on January 3, 2012 released the following: By JOE HARRIS ST. LOUIS (CN) The FBI did not need a warrant to secretly install a GPS tracking device on a St. Louis City Treasurers Office employee accused of not showing up for work, a federal judge ruled. Fred Robinson, 69, is accused of stealing more than $250,000 of public money from the Paideia Academy charter school to start a day-care business, and of taking as much as $175,000 from his job in Treasurer Larry Williams office, where he was allegedly a no-show. Robinson was indicated in September on one count of wire fraud and seven counts of federal program theft. Robinsons lawyer argued that the GPS results should not be allowed for several reasons, including the agents failure to get a warrant and violations of his Constitutional rights.

But U.S. Magistrate Judge David Noce disagreed, finding that appellate courts have found use of the tracking devices legal, even though the U.S. Supreme Court is still deciding the issue. The 8th Circuit held that the agents did not need a warrant prior to installing and using the GPS tracker device, Noce wrote. The court explained, when police have reasonable suspicion that a particular vehicle is transporting drugs, a warrant is not required when, while the vehicle is parked in a public place, they install a non -invasive GPS tracking device on it for a reasonable period of time. Because installation of the GPS tracker device was non-invasive and because the agents installed the device when the truck was parked in public, installation of the GPS tracker device was not a search. Robinson failed to win dismissal of four counts of his indictment and failed to get his trial split into two parts. Robinsons attorney had argued that the trial should be split so as not to prejudice the jury by hearing allegations involving unrelated charges.

Douglas McNabb McNabb Associates, P.C.s Federal Criminal Defense Attorneys Videos: Federal Crimes Be Careful Federal Crimes Be Proactive Federal Crimes Federal Indictment Federal Crimes Detention Hearing To find additional federal criminal news, please read Federal Crimes Watch Daily. Douglas McNabb and other members of the U.S. law firm practice and write and/ or report extensively on matters involving Federal Criminal Defense, INTERPOL Red Notice Removal, International Extradition and OFAC SDN Sanctions 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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Stanford Seeks to Delay Trial After Defense Expert Witnesses Quit Over Pay
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Submitted at 9:12 AM January 3, 2012

Bloomberg on January 2, 2012 released the following: By Laurel Brubaker Calkins R. Allen Stanford, accused of running a $7 billion investment fraud, asked for a three-month delay in his trial set for Jan. 23 after his expert witnesses quit over not being paid, according to court filings. Stanfords experts havent been paid for four months, Ali Fazel, Stanfords lead criminal-defense lawyer, said in court papers filed Dec. 30 in federal court in Houston. They quit last week after the U.S. Court of Appeals, which controls budgets for Stanfords publicly funded defense, ruled that it will modify and limit the expert budget moving forward and withhold payments to them until after the trial, Fazel said. Stanford, 61, has been in custody since he was indicted in June 2009 on charges of

defrauding investors through bogus certificates of deposit at his Antigua-based Stanford International Bank. Stanford was declared mentally fit for trial on Dec. 22, after completing eight months of rehabilitation at a federal prison hospital in Butner, North Carolina. U.S. District Judge David Hittner found the former financier had sufficiently recovered from head injuries suffered in a September 2009 jailhouse assault and an addiction to anxiety drugs prescribed by prison doctors following the attack. Fazel said in the Dec. 30 filings that prosecutors dont oppose a one-week delay in tomorrows deadline for filing expert reports in the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Gregg Costa told Hittner last month that the government doesnt oppose a delay of six to eight weeks in Stanfords trial to give him more time to review documents with his attorneys. Laura Sweeney, a Justice Department

spokeswoman, declined to comment today on the request for a three-month delay, citing a gag order issued by the judge. The case is U.S. v. Stanford, 09-cr-00342, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas (Houston). To find additional federal criminal news, please read Federal Crimes Watch Daily. Douglas McNabb and other members of the U.S. law firm practice and write and/ or report extensively on matters involving Federal Criminal Defense, INTERPOL Red Notice Removal, International Extradition and OFAC SDN Sanctions 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.

Texas: Man Detained at Airport Is a Green Beret

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Submitted at 9:24 AM January 3, 2012

The New York Times on January 3, 2012 released the following: By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A man arrested Saturday with explosives at Midland International Airport is an Army-trained demolitions expert and member of the elite Green Berets who served in Afghanistan, military officials said Monday. Trey Scott Atwater, 30, was being held on a federal charge of attempting to board an aircraft with an explosive, the F.B.I. said. He is an Army sergeant first class, assigned as an instructor at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School at Ft. Bragg, N.C. Sergeant Atwater was detained after a routine Transportation Security Administration agent noticed he had explosives in his carry-on luggage while trying to board an American Eagle flight to Dallas, the F.B.I. said. Michael Martinez, an F.B.I. spokesman, declined to say what type of explosive Sergeant Atwater was carrying, or the quantity. It is not known whether he was in uniform at

the time. Douglas McNabb McNabb Associates, P.C.s Federal Criminal Defense Attorneys Videos: Federal Crimes Be Careful Federal Crimes Be Proactive Federal Crimes Federal Indictment Federal Crimes Detention Hearing To find additional federal criminal news, please read Federal Crimes Watch Daily. Douglas McNabb and other members of the U.S. law firm practice and write and/ or report extensively on matters involving Federal Criminal Defense, INTERPOL Red Notice Removal, International Extradition and OFAC SDN Sanctions 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.

Former Department of Defense Employee Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Submitting False Travel Claims Totaling Nearly $500,000
(USDOJ: Justice News)
Submitted at 4:32 PM January 3, 2012

John R. Brock, 52, of Crofton, Md., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robert L. Wilkins in the District of Columbia.

South Carolina Murder Suspect Captured

(U.S. Marshals Service News)
Submitted at 11:22 AM January 3, 2012

January 02, 2012 - Herman Dessausure, a Savannah man wanted for Murder and Aggravated Assault, was arrested by the Savannah Office of the U.S. Marshals Service Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force and Savannah Chatham Metropolitan Police Department (SCMPD) Detectives, SWAT, and K-9.