COURT PROCEEDINGS

Sentencing is scheduled for June 1, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. for Barry H. Landau, age 63, of New York, New York, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy and theft of historical documents of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Franklin Roosevelt and others from museums in Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, and Connecticut, and selling selected documents for profit. Co-defendant Jason James Savedoff, a/k/a “Jason James,” and “Justin Ward,” age 25, of New York, New York, previously pleaded guilty to the same charges. No date has been set for Savedoff’s sentencing. Landau and Savedoff face a maximum sentence of five years in prison for the conspiracy; and 10 years in prison for theft of the documents.

Prince George’s County developer Daniel Ira Colton, age 62, a resident of Annapolis, Maryland and Raleigh, North Carolina,is scheduled to be sentenced on June 28, 2012, and Patrick Q. Ricker, age 53, of Bowie, Maryland, is scheduled to be sentenced on July 10, 2012, both at 9:30 a.m. , in federal courtroom 4C in Greenbelt, Maryland, for their participation in an extortion scheme arising in Prince George’s County. Ricker also pleaded guilty to tax evasion. They face a maximum penalty of five years in prison on each count.