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Jacques Monsieur Arrested for Conspiracy to Supply U.S. Fighter Jet Engines to Iran Via Dara Fotouhi
Jacques Monsieur, a Belgian national and resident of France suspected of international arms dealing for decades, has been arrested on charges alleging that he conspired to illegally export F-5 fighter jet engines and parts from the United States to Iran. Monsieur is scheduled to have his arraignment today in federal court in Mobile, Alabama.
A six-count indictment returned on Aug. 27, 2009, in the Southern District of Alabama charging Monsieur, 56, and co-defendant Dara Fotouhi, aka Dara Fatouhi, 54, an Iranian national currently living in France, with conspiracy, money laundering, smuggling, as well as violations of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).
Monsieur was arrested by federal agents last Friday upon his arrival in New York. Fotouhi remains at large. The charge of conspiracy carries a potential sentence of five years in prison, while smuggling carries a potential 10-year prison term, AECA carries a potential 10-year prison term, money laundering carries a potential 20-year prison term and IEEPA carries a potential 20-year prison term.
According to the indictment and an affidavit filed in the case, defendants Monsieur andFotouhi are experienced arms dealers who have been actively working with the Iranian government to procure military items for the Iranian government.
The indictment alleges that in February 2009, Monsieur contacted an undercover agent seeking engines for the F-5 (EIF) fighter jet or the C-130 military transport aircraft for export to Iran. Thereafter, Monsieur began having regular e-mail contact with the undercover agent regarding requested F-5 engines and parts.
These engines, known as J85-21 models, are replacement engines for the F-5 fighter jet that was sold to Iran by the United States before the 1979 Iranian revolution. The engines and parts are designated as defense articles on the U.S. Munitions List and may not be exported from the United States without a license from the U.S. State Department. Additionally, these items may not be exported to Iran without a license from the U.S. Treasury Department due to the U.S. trade embargo on Iran.
According to the indictment, in March 2009, Monsieur met with the undercover agent in Paris, where Monsieur again requested engines and parts for the F-5 fighter jet. In May 2009, an undercover agent met with Monsieur in London, where Monsieur introduced Dara Fotouhi as a business associate, and again discussed the illegal export of F-5 fighter jet engines from the United States to Iran. During this negotiation, the defendants allegedly asked the undercover agent if he could obtain or use U.S. shipping or export authorization documents that falsely indicated that the end user of the items would be located in Colombia.
In June 2009, according to the indictment, Monsieur sent an e-mail to the undercover agent and provided a purchase order for F-5 fighter jet parts from a front company for an organization known as Trast Aero Space, located in Kyrgyzstan. The order requested that the parts be located by the undercover agent and illegally exported to the United Arab Emirates for transshipment to Iran.
The following month, Monsieur allegedly contacted the undercover agent indicating that approximately $110,000 had been wired from Dubai to a bank account in Alabama as payment for the parts. He also indicated that a deposit of $300,000 would be forthcoming as a down payment for two F-5 fighter jet engines. In August 2009, Monsieur requested information from the undercover agent about his contact in Colombia for forwarding the aircraft parts from Colombia to the United Arab Emirates, the indictment alleges.
“The facts alleged in this indictment underscore the global reach of Iranian procurement networks and the international arms traffickers who help supply them. This case also highlights the importance of keeping restricted U.S. weapons technology out of their grasp,” said Deputy Attorney General Ogden. “I applaud the many agents, analysts and prosecutors who worked tirelessly to bring about this important arrest.”
Acting U.S. Attorney Eugene A. Seidel said, “The investigation and prosecution of cases such as this one will have a significant deterrent impact on illegal arms trafficking and will enhance our national security. Foreign governments and illegal arms dealers should know that there are no ‘safe harbors’ for this type of commerce. We all owe a debt of gratitude to the dedicated investigators, agency analysts, and prosecutors who helped bring about the arrest and indictment of the defendant.”
“Those who seek to illegally send dangerous weapons to Iran will never quite know whether the ‘merchant’ they’re dealing with is actually the long arm of the law,” said John Morton, the Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for ICE. “ICE is committed to combating the flow of arms and sensitive technologies abroad and will utilize all of its resources to do so.”
“Safeguarding our military equipment and technology is vital to our nation’s defense and the protection of our war fighters,” said Director Sharon Woods, Director of the Defense Criminal Investigative Service. “We know that foreign governments are actively seeking our equipment for their own military development. Thwarting these efforts is a top priority of the DCIS. I applaud the agents and prosecutors who worked tirelessly to bring about this result.”
This investigation was conducted by the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Defense’s Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS).
The prosecution is being handled by Assistant U.S. Attorney Gregory A. Bordenkircher of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Alabama, with assistance from the Counterespionage Section of the Justice Department’s National Security Division.
An indictment is a formal accusation and is not proof of guilt. Defendants are presumed innocent until and unless they are found guilty.
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Carlin King, Former Head of Hanover Stevens Investments, Perpetrated $2 Million Ponzi Scheme
CARLIN KING, 43, of Decatur, Georgia, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Marvin Shoob to serve three years in federal prison on a charge of wire fraud, in connection with his operation of the foreign exchange investment house “Hanover Stevens,” based in Atlanta.
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United States Attorney David E. Nahmias said of the case, “This case involves yet another scheme by an investment professional who earned the trust of many individuals and then defrauded them out of their savings. Whether there are $2 million or $200 million in losses, these are devastating crimes to the victims. This fraudster now will join many others in federal prison.”
KING was sentenced to three years in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $2.5 million. KING pleaded guilty to the charge on February 23, 2009.
According to United States Attorney Nahmias and the information presented in court: KING was a professional securities broker, who traded equity stocks and commodities for clients at various financial firms, mostly in Atlanta, since the 1990s. In approximately 2002, KING founded and began operating “Hanover Stevens,” a retail foreign exchange brokerage firm. Beginning in approximately February 2006, however, KING stopped actually investing client money in foreign exchange transactions. The evidence shows he began lying to clients about the returns their investments were supposedly making, and he began operating a fraudulent “Ponzi” scheme. Instead of investing client money in the foreign currency markets as he promised, KING began using those funds to pay Hanover Stevens’s increasing operating expenses, investors who had requested distributions, and substantial personal expenses (including living expenses at luxury hotels). To create the impression that their investments were profitable, KING provided account statements to his investors containing fabricated numbers as to the balances in their accounts and supposed investment gains. Because there were no actual investment gains—and because the balances being reported to investors were fabricated—the only way that KING could pay any requested distributions was to use newly-invested funds from new investors.
By December 2007—when the unsustainable scheme collapsed—the losses to the investors exceeded $2.5 million.
Patriot Services Inc. and Stephanie Blackmon Plead Guilty to Making a False Statement to the U.S. Small Business Administration
Patriot Services Inc. and its owner/president, Stephanie Blackmon, have each agreed to plead guilty to a one-count charge of making a false statement to the SBA, which was filed today in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan. Patriot supplies temporary staffing services to various agencies and departments of the U.S. government at various locations throughout the United States. Under the separate plea agreements, which are subject to court approval, Patriot and Blackmon have agreed to cooperate with the Department’s ongoing investigation.
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Blackmon admitted to providing false information to the SBA so that Patriot could qualify for certification under Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act, a designation given to businesses owned and operated by socially and economically disadvantaged persons. Specifically, Blackmon concealed the involvement of her former employer, who was not a socially and economically disadvantaged person, in the management and operations of Patriot because revealing his involvement would have compromised Patriot’s chances of receiving 8(a) certification. By securing 8(a) certification, Patriot qualified for government contracts specifically set aside for 8(a) companies.
According to court documents, Blackmon purchased and became the president of Patriot in November 2003. Although Blackmon was the actual owner/president of Patriot, she was primarily a figurehead whose status as an African-American was used to obtain 8(a) certification for Patriot, thereby enabling Patriot, and her former employer, to obtain government 8(a) set-aside contracts. In fact, Patriot was actually controlled and operated by her former employer and others, who operated another temporary staffing company that was not eligible for the 8(a) program. Blackmon’s status as a service-disabled veteran also was used by Patriot to try to secure government contracts.
Although Blackmon knew that her former employer and others were actually running Patriot, she concealed their involvement so that the company could secure 8(a) certification. SBA regulations prohibit a former employer of any disadvantaged owner of an 8(a) applicant company from being involved in the management of the applicant company unless the SBA determines that the former employer does not have actual control of the applicant company or the potential to control the applicant company. Based in part on Blackmon’s misrepresentations, the SBA granted Patriot 8(a) status in November 2006. Shortly thereafter, Patriot entered into three 8(a) contracts to provide temporary staffing services to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy (CMOP) in Leavenworth, Kan., one of seven such VA pharmacies throughout the nation that process and distribute medical prescriptions to veterans. Those contracts were valued at approximately $5.4 million.
Blackmon faces a maximum sentence of two years in prison and a fine of $5,000 for the false statement charge and Patriot faces a maximum fine of $5,000.
Today’s charges stem from an ongoing investigation into fraudulent conduct involving contract operations at CMOPs in Hines, Ill., and Leavenworth, Kan. On July 24, 2008, Joel M. Gostomelsky, the director of the Hines CMOP, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and to accepting illegal gratuities in connection with awarding temporary staffing and supply contracts. On May 5, 2009, the associate director of the Hines CMOP, William J. Brandt, his wife, Esperana A. Brandt, and her company, Pronto Staffing Inc. each pleaded guilty to being part of a conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud the VA and the SBA. William Brandt also pleaded guilty to wire fraud.
Today’s charges reflect the Department’s commitment to protecting U.S. taxpayers from procurement fraud through its creation of the National Procurement Fraud Task Force. The National Procurement Fraud Initiative, announced in October 2006, is designed to promote the early detection, prosecution and prevention of procurement fraud associated with the increase in contracting activity for national security and other government programs.
The ongoing investigation into fraudulent conduct involving the VA’s CMOPs is conducted jointly by the Department of Justice Antitrust Division’s Chicago Field Office and the VA’s Office of Inspector General, with assistance from the SBA’s Office of Inspector General; the Department of Defense, Criminal Investigative Service; and the U.S. Secret Service.
Anyone with information concerning bid rigging, fraud, kickbacks, bribery or other crimes relating to violations of federal procurement laws meant to foster competition concerning any of the VA CMOPs should contact the Chicago Field Office of the Antitrust Division at 312-353-7530 or the VA’s Office of Inspector General at 1-800-488-8244. Anyone with information about fraud in any SBA program should contact the SBA’s Office of Inspector General at 1-800- 767-0385 orwww.sba.gov/ig/.
Jubilee Financial Solutions LP, aka The Credit Card Solution, Jubilee Financial Management LLC, and Robert Mitchell Lindsey
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today charged a Houston-based credit repair firm with violating the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act. The state’s enforcement action names Jubilee Financial Solutions LP, also known as The Credit Card Solution (TCCS) - a self-proclaimed “debt invalidation” business - its parent company, Jubilee Financial Management LLC, and the companies’ owner, Robert Mitchell Lindsey.
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Court documents filed by the attorney general requested an asset freeze, which was granted by a Harris County district judge. The state sought the asset freeze because investigators believe the defendants are improperly withholding $500,000 in customers’ payments that should have been applied to debt relief services.
Through various Web sites - includingwww.thecreditcardsolution.com - the defendants claimed they could eliminate credit card and other debts by helping customers fight credit reporting agencies, dispute debts and sue debt collectors. The defendants also promised access to legal services, which they claimed could yield monetary damages from lawsuits against debt collectors.
Marketing materials obtained by state investigators shows the defendants claimed their “debt invalidation” program can eliminate customers’ debt in as little as 12 to 18 months by relying upon federal consumer protection laws. In videos on the defendants’ Web site, Lindsey claims that TCCS has “gotten rid of $150 million of credit card debt.”
According to the state’s enforcement action, the defendants are unlawfully operating an unregistered credit services organization (CSO). Under the Texas Credit Services Organization Act, CSOs must register with the Secretary of State and obtain a surety bond or surety account. The defendants have done neither.
TCCS also offers an Affiliate Information Package online, which gives interested individuals the opportunity to market and sell the defendants’ services. However, court documents filed by the state indicate the defendants’ affiliate program is subject to the Texas Business Opportunity Act, which requires vendors to register with the Secretary of State and obtain surety bonds or surety accounts. The state’s enforcement action charges TCCS with failing to comply with those requirements.
The state’s enforcement action also charges the defendants with multiple Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act (DTPA) violations, including not providing services as advertised and withholding information about goods or services when entering into a transaction.
The state seeks penalties of up to $20,000 per violation of the DTPA, restitution for Texans harmed by the defendants’ business practices, and attorneys’ fees. Texans who believe they have been deceived by similar fraudulent business practices may call the Office of the Attorney General’s toll-free complaint line at (800) 252-8011 or file a complaint online at www.texasattorneygeneral.gov.
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ROSS H. MANDELL, STEPHEN SHEA, ADAM HARRINGTON, aka Adam Rukdeschel, ARN WILSON, ROBERT GRABOWSKI and MICHAEL PASSARO Charged
ROSS H. MANDELL, STEPHEN SHEA, ADAM HARRINGTON, a/k/a “Adam Rukdeschel,” ARN WILSON, ROBERT GRABOWSKI, and MICHAEL PASSARO have been charged in a two-count Indictment with conspiracy to commit securities, wire and mail fraud; and with securities fraud. The defendants surrendered this morning to agents of the FBI.
According to the two-count Indictment unsealed today in Manhattan federal court:
From 1998 through 2006, the defendants participated in a scheme to defraud investors via two successive securities broker-dealers: The Thornwater Company, L.P., (”Thornwater”); and Sky Capital LLC and associated entities, including Sky Capital Enterprises Inc., and Sky Capital Holdings Ltd. (collectively “Sky Capital”). Until late 2006, shares of Sky Capital Holdings (”SKH”) and Sky Capital Enterprises (”SKE”) were traded publicly on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange. Through material misrepresentations and omissions, the defendants induced victims to invest in purported investment opportunities promising large returns, such as private placements, offers to purchase restricted stock, and offers to purchase Sky Capital securities. In fact, investor funds were substantially used to enrich the defendants and others; to pay excessive undisclosed commissions to brokers; and to pay off victims who had lost money through prior purported investment opportunities. In connection with the scheme, the defendants, acting primarily from Thornwater and Sky Capital’s offices in New York, New York, raised a total of approximately $140 million from investors.
As part of the scheme the defendants and others manipulated the secondary market for SKH and SKE stock. This was done to placate existing investors; to induce customers to make further investments in various investment vehicles at a “discount” from the price of the publicly-traded stock; and to enrich members of the scheme who had substantial holdings in Sky Capital. The manipulation was effected by using high-pressure sales tactics and materially false statements and omissions to induce investors to buy SKH and/or SKE stock; to discourage investors from selling the stock; by enforcing a “no net sales” policy whereby brokers were instructed not to accept SKH or SKE sell orders unless a matching buy order could be generated for another customer; by improperly “crossing” SKH and/or SKE stock among customer accounts to maintain the market price; and by making unauthorized purchases of SKH and/or SKE stock in retail customer accounts. The manipulation was designed to make it appear that there was demand for SKH and SKE stock (when in fact there was not); to control the market in the stock; and to maintain and increase the share price. To facilitate the market manipulation, MANDELL, SHEA, and HARRINGTON offered excessive undisclosed payments to Sky Capital brokers, including HARRINGTON, WILSON, GRABOWSKI, and PASSARO. The payments were often disguised as “advances,” “loans,” or “special bonuses.” To generate funds for these payments, participants in the scheme, at MANDELL’s direction, created a “spread” on SKH and SKE stock by negotiating to purchase large blocks of Sky Capital stock from Sky investors at discounted prices and then soliciting other Sky customers to purchase the same Sky Capital stock at the higher price. The resultant profit was split between Sky Capital and the brokers.
ROSS H. MANDELL, 52, of Boca Raton, Florida, was previously Chief Executive Officer of various Sky Capital companies and an undisclosed principal of Thornwater, as well as a Thornwater broker and investment banker. MANDELL exercised day-to-day management control over various Sky Capital companies and their employees either directly or through others despite Sky Capital’s agreement with the NASD that, because of MANDELL’s disciplinary history in the securities industry, MANDELL would not hold a supervisory position.
STEPHEN SHEA, 37, of Brooklyn, New York, was previously President and Chief Operating Officer of Sky Capital Holdings and of Sky Capital LLC; a member of Sky Capital Enterprises’ Board of Directors; and Thornwater’s Operations Principal. SHEA oversaw all aspects of Sky Capital’s business operations, including customer accounts, securities broker-dealer activities, and securities trading.
ADAM HARRINGTON, 39, of Miami, Florida, ARN WILSON, 52, of Concord, North Carolina, and MICHAEL PASSARO, 46, of Delray Beach, Florida, were previously registered brokers at Sky Capital and Thornwater. HARRINGTON, WILSON, and PASSARO each actively solicited customers to purchase Sky Capital securities and directed other brokers to do the same.
ROBERT GRABOWSKI, 41, of Staten Island, New York, was previously a registered broker at Sky Capital and President and CEO of Thornwater. GRABOWSKI participated in soliciting investors at Thornwater and Sky Capital.
The defendants are expected to be arraigned today before United States Magistrate Judge ANDREW J. PECK in Manhattan federal court. The case has been assigned to United States District Judge PAUL A. CROTTY.
If convicted, MANDELL, SHEA, HARRINGTON, WILSON, GRABOWSKI, and PASSARO each face a maximum sentence on the conspiracy count of 5 years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000, or twice the gross gain or loss from the offense. On the securities fraud count, the defendants face a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a maximum fine of $5 million, or twice the gross gain or loss from the offense.
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Robert Edward Jones, Former CEO of the National Center for the Employment of the Disabled, Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement
Robert Edward Jones, former CEO and President of the National Center for the Employment of the Disabled (NCED), pleaded guilty to six federal charges related to embezzling millions of dollars in government program funds and to conspiring with others to deprive the community of the right to honest services of elected officials.Appearing before United States District Judge Frank Montalvo, Jones pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit theft or embezzlement of federal program funds; one count of conspiracy to make false statements and to defraud the United States; one count of making a false statement to a financial institution; one count of aiding and abetting in the preparation of a false tax return; and, one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, wire fraud and the deprivation of honest services. By pleading guilty, Jones admitted that during a three-year period beginning in June 2003, he schemed to steal or embezzle at least $5,000 from NCED, an organization that received at least $10,000 in federal government program money in each year charged and, without authorization of the NCED Board of Directors, directed the money for his use or others.Jones also admitted that from November 22, 2003, until March 6, 2006, he conspired to make false statements and defraud the United States by lying to the Committee for Purchase from the Blind and Severely Disabled, falsely claiming NCED was in compliance with the Javits Wagner-O’Day Act (JWOD). By doing so, Jones fraudulently secured no-bid contracts from government agencies—contracts which are set aside for not-for-profit organizations who employ blind or other severely handicapped individuals to perform at least 75 percent of the work on the government contracts. According to the superceding indictment in this case, NCED did not employ sufficient numbers of blind or severely disabled workers to qualify for JWOD contracts.Jones further admitted that in 2003, he submitted false information to a financial institution in order to secure a $975,000 mechanic’s lien on his new home.In addition to pleading guilty to the above charges—all of which were contained in federal grand jury indictments—Jones pleaded guilty to two criminal Informations filed yesterday by the United States Attorney’s Office. The first Information charges Jones with aiding and abetting in the preparation of a False 2003 Income Tax Return. By pleading guilty, Jones admitted that he knowingly failed to report $1 million dollars in income the Jones Family Trust received in 2003.The second Information charges that from late 1998 until March 2006, Jones conspired with elected officials and others to commit mail fraud, wire fraud and to deprive El Pasoans of the right to the honest services of elected officials. By pleading guilty, Jones admitted that he was involved in a scheme to defraud the County of El Paso, the El Paso, Ysleta and Socorro Independent School Districts as well as the citizens living and voting in El Paso County of the right to honest services of elected officials. Furthermore, Jones admitted to paying cash and other bribes in the forms of campaign contributions and gratuities in order to secure vendor contracts between Access Healthsource and the above mentioned entities.
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