Six individuals were charged in Honolulu, Hawaii with engaging in a conspiracy to commit forced labor and document servitude. The defendants allegedly coerced the labor and services of approximately 400 Thai nationals brought by the defendants to the U.S. from Thailand to work on farms across the country under the U.S. federal agricultural guest worker program.
Polar Air Cargo LLC has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $17.4 million criminal fine for its role in a conspiracy to fix the cargo rates charged to certain customers for international air cargo shipments between the United States and Australia.
Charles K. Schwartz, the founder and president of Allied Health Care Services Inc., an Orange, New Jersey durable medical equipment corporation, was charged with fraudulently obtaining more than $87 million from banks based on phony lease agreements.
Corey N. Johnston, of Lakeville, Minnesota, pled guilty to operating a Ponzi scheme that defrauded at least 17 lenders in Minnesota and several other states. According to the government's investigation, the lenders suffered losses in excess of $79 million.
Six individuals were charged in Honolulu, Hawaii with engaging in a conspiracy to commit forced labor and document servitude. The defendants allegedly coerced the labor and services of approximately 400 Thai nationals brought by the defendants to the U.S. from Thailand to work on farms across the country under the U.S. federal agricultural guest worker program.
Christopher McCullough, currently of Frederic, Colorado and formerly of Houston, Texas, was sentenced to 51 months in prison for his embezzlement of more than $3 million while serving as the chief financial officer of LJA Engineering, a Houston-based company.
Dorothy Ellis, of Texas City, Texas, a former senior employee of a U.S. military contractor, pled guilty to conspiracy to pay $360,000 in bribes to U.S. Army contracting officials stationed at a U.S. military base in Kuwait.
Polar Air Cargo LLC has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $17.4 million criminal fine for its role in a conspiracy to fix the cargo rates charged to certain customers for international air cargo shipments between the United States and Australia.
Lucius T. Solomon, III, of Atlanta, Georgia, formerly an officer with the Atlanta Police Department, pled guilty to corruption and drug charges in connection with providing protection in exchange for money for what he believed to be multi-kilogram cocaine deals.
