December 12, 2012
40 Members and Associates of Bronx Trinitarios Street Gang Charged with Racketeering, Murder, Attempted Murder, Assault, Narcotics, and Firearms Offenses
NEW YORK, NY – U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, NYPD Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, DEA Special Agent-in-Charge Brian R. Crowell, ATF Special Agent-in-Charge Joseph Anarumo Jr., and ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations Deputy Special Agent-in-Charge Anthony Scandiffio, announce the unsealing of a Superseding Indictment charging 40 members and associates of the Bronx Trinitarios Gang (“BTG”) with racketeering, murder, attempted murder, narcotics, and firearms offenses. The original Indictment, filed in December 2011 against 50 members of BTG, alleged that the gang operated as a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) and was responsible for certain narcotics and firearms trafficking offenses. Today’s Superseding Indictment against 26 new defendants and 14 already charged, adds additional racketeering offenses and violent crimes including nine murders in aid of racketeering, 10 conspiracies to commit murder in aid of racketeering, and 24 assaults and attempted murders in aid of racketeering. It also includes additional narcotics conspiracy and firearms offenses - all related to the defendants’ participation in BTG. In 2009 and 2010, 43 members of the Manhattan Trinitarios Gang were charged with various racketeering, murder, and narcotics offenses, bringing the total number of defendants charged in the past three years for their alleged involvement with the Trinitarios, 119.
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U.S. v. Leonides, et al. Complaint
November 20, 2012
Former Hedge Fund Portfolio Manager Charged for $276 Million Insider Trading Scheme Involving Alzheimer’s Disease Drug Trial
New York, NY – U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and FBI Special Agent-in-Charge April Brooks announce insider trading charges against Mathew Martoma, a former portfolio manager for a division of a group of affiliated hedge funds. Martoma allegedly used material, non-public information that he received from a doctor who served as an adviser to Elan Corporation, PLC on the clinical trial of an Alzheimer’s Disease drug, to make profits and avoid losses for his former employer in an amount totaling approximately $276 million. The alleged scheme is the most lucrative insider trading scheme ever charged. SEC Director of Enforcement Robert Khuzami also announced civil charges against Martoma.
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U.S. v. Mathew Martoma Complaint
October 16, 2012
Stolen Roy Lichtenstein Painting Returned to Its Rightful Owner
New York, NY – U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and FBI Acting Assistant Director-in-Charge Mary E. Galligan announce the return of the Roy Lichtenstein painting, “Electric Cord,” which had been missing for 42 years, to Barbara Bertozzi Castelli, the widow of American art dealer Leo Castelli (“Castelli”). The “Electric Cord” was painted in 1961 by Roy Lichtenstein, an esteemed American painter, and is now valued at approximately $4,000,000.
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U.S. v. Roy Lichtenstein Painting Stipulation & Order
July 17, 2012
48 Individuals Charged for Massive Medicaid Fraud Scheme Involving the Diversion and Trafficking of Prescription Drugs
New York, NY – U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge Janice K. Fedarcyk, NYPD Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, and NYC Human Resources Administration Commissioner Robert Doar announce charges against 48 defendants for their participation in a massive fraud scheme involving the unlawful diversion and trafficking of hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of second-hand prescription drugs in a national, underground market. The prescription drugs had originally been dispensed to Medicaid recipients, and Medicaid lost more than an estimated $500 million in reimbursements for pills that were diverted.
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U.S. v. Oria, et al. Complaint
U.S. v. Viera, et al. Indictment
March 14, 2012
CityTime Contractor Agrees to Forfeit More than $500 Million
New York, NY - U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and DOI Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn announce that the U.S. Attorney’s Office has entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with Science Applications International Corporation, the lead contractor on New York City’s CityTime project. Under the agreement, SAIC will forfeit a total of $500,392,977 to the Department of Justice, and forgive more than $40 million still owed by the City to SAIC in connection with the project.
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Technodyne Civil Forfeiture Complaint
February 29, 2012
36 Individuals Charged with Participating in a $279 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme
New York, NY - U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge Janice K. Fedarcyk, and NYPD Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly announce charges against 36 defendants involved in a systematic scheme to defraud private insurance companies of more than $279 million under New York’s no-fault automobile insurance law. The alleged scheme is the largest single no-fault automobile insurance fraud ever charged, and the first case of its kind to allege violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (“RICO”).
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U.S. v. Zemlyansky, et al. Indictment
January 18, 2012
Seven Charged for Insider Trading Scheme that Allegedly Netted More than $61.8 Million in Illegal Profits
New York, NY – U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge Janice K. Fedarcyk announce charges against seven investment professionals for engaging in a scheme in which they provided each other with material, non-public information about two publicly traded technology companies. The alleged insider trading scheme is the largest charged to date involving a single stock.
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U.S. v. Newman, et. al. Complaint
U.S. v. Jesse Tortora Information
U.S. v. Spyridon Adondakis Information
U.S. v. Sandeep Goyal Information
