Posts Tagged "conspiracy"

Central Florida deputy foils plan to rob iPads

   ORLANDO, FL — A plot to rob a shipment of Apple’s newest iPad from a central Florida store was foiled by an Orange County Sheriff’s deputy. The sheriff’s office says 24-year-old Jasmin Roman and 26-year-old Juan Carlos Ortiz Valez bought guns, handcuffs, black clothes and other items to rob the best Buy store near Orlando’s Florida Mall early Thursday….read more →

Judge sends therapist to prison for 35 years in massive Medicare-fraud case

a federal judge Monday issued another lengthy sentence in the nation’s biggest mental-health fraud case, sending a Miami therapist to prison for 35 years. The sentencing of Marianella Valera, 40, came only days after the same judge sent her 49-year-old boyfriend, Lawrence Duran, to prison for 50 years. The pair ran Miami-based American Therapeutic Corp, which prosecutors say defrauded the…read more →

8-11-11 David Smith From Ponzi Scheme, Olint Sentenced to 30 years

David Smith, from pronzi scheme Olint charged  for financial fraud of more than US $200 million, was sentenced to 30 years in prison Thursday in Orlando federal court.After hearing three hours of legal arguments and victim testimony, which was emotional at times, U.S. District Judge Mary Scriven handed down the sentence.  Smith pleaded guilty to 18 counts of money laundering,…read more →