Charles E. Coughlin former Navy commander retried on charges that he lied about injuries he suffered during the 2001 terrorist attack

Federal prosecutors said today that they will retry a former Navy commander on charges that he lied about injuries he suffered during the 2001 terrorist attack on the Pentagon to collect more than $300,000 from a victims' fund. A jury last month acquitted Charles E. Coughlin of Severna Park on three mail fraud charges but deadlocked on charges of theft of public money, filing a false claim and two counts of mail fraud. The jury also deadlocked on a theft charge against Coughlin's wife, Sabrina. Prosecutors said they intend to retry Sabrina Coughlin, too. U.S. District Judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr. set a June 8 trial date.

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Glenn Marshall former leader of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe who has pleaded guilty to federal fraud and embezzlement charges

former leader of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe who has pleaded guilty to federal fraud and embezzlement charges is scheduled to be sentenced in Massachusetts.U.S. District Judge Rya Zobel in Boston is slated to sentence Glenn Marshall on Thursday.The 59-year-old Falmouth resident admitted in Feburary to making illegal campaign contributions to members of Congress, embezzling tribal funds, wire fraud, filing false tax returns and fraudulently receiving Social Security disability benefits.According to the initial plea agreement, Marshall faces 46 to 57 months in prison.

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LexisNexis online information service is warning 32,000 people their personal information may have been improperly accessed

LexisNexis online information service is warning 32,000 people their personal information may have been improperly accessed in a credit card fraud scheme that postal officials say bilked hundreds.
New York-based LexisNexis says in a letter mailed Friday that former customers of the service may have viewed information including names, birth dates and Social Security numbers.
U.S. Postal Service officials have launched a criminal investigation and say 300 people in the databases of LexisNexis and a Santa Fe, N.M., company called Investigative Professionals were victims in the credit card fraud scheme. No suspects have been arrested.

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Julian Tzolov, a former Credit Suisse Group broker expected to plead guilty to fraud charges

Julian Tzolov, a former Credit Suisse Group broker accused last year of deceiving investors about investments known as auction-rate securities, is expected to plead guilty to fraud charges, his lawyer said in a court hearing last month.

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Julian Tzolov, a former Credit Suisse Group broker expected to plead guilty to fraud charges

Julian Tzolov, a former Credit Suisse Group broker accused last year of deceiving investors about investments known as auction-rate securities, is expected to plead guilty to fraud charges, his lawyer said in a court hearing last month.

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Extradite Police Equipment Foundation (PEF) National Co-ordinator, Kenny Martins, to the United States to face charges of fraud.

President Umaru Yar'Adua may extradite Police Equipment Foundation (PEF) National Co-ordinator, Kenny Martins, to the United States to face charges of fraud.The government is in a dilemma over the demand for a $1 million legal fee by the lawyer representing it in a lawsuit instituted by Calvary Security Group in the United States, which was allegedly defrauded of $97.25 million by Martins.
Calvary Security had taken Nigeria to court in New York on the basis that it went into business with the PEF because evidence was produced that it was a government parastatal.Although the fee demanded by the U.S. legal firm was the least proposal submitted by the eight legal firms contacted to defend the country, Yar'Adua is said not to be disposed to paying the $1 million, which he considers a huge amount.It was learnt that he was furious when the issue was mentioned to him, and lamented that his government is not prepared to waste such money on an irrelevant legal battle brought on by the misdeed of one person.A source in Aso Rock and another at police headquarters in Abjua confirmed on Sunday that Yar'Adua has mandated the Foreign Affairs Ministry and the Ministry of Justice to collaborate on the way forward.Yar'Adua would not mind extraditing Martins to face the law in the U.S., if that will help clear the image of Nigeria and prevent it from paying the legal fee.
Martins, who was arrested last Tuesday by the police, is expected to be charged to court today in Abuja.The case instituted against Nigeria came up for mentioning in a New York court on April 24 and was adjourned to July 26 to enable the country prepare its defence.
The source explained: "If you are in the shoes of Yar'Adua, will you pay such an amount in a case in which all that Nigeria needs do is prove that the PEF is not a government parastatal?"In this era of economic meltdown, Yar'Adua is right in questioning the sum demanded as legal fee. Just because of the misdeed of a single individual, we are about losing such a big sum. You can call Yar'Adua a tight-fisted man if you like."Calvary Security is demanding $30 million in damages, aside the request that the money collected from it by Martins be returned by Nigeria.

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