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<p><span>A federal grand jury in San Diego returned an indictment today charging the founder of BitConnect with orchestrating a global Ponzi scheme. BitConnect is an alleged fraudulent cryptocurrency investment platform that reached a peak market capitalization of $3.4 billion.</span></p>

January 3, 2022 — Alexander Avergoon, a longtime San Diego real estate agent and businessman, was sentenced in federal court today to 64 months in prison for defrauding investors in several Ponzi real estate investment schemes. As part of his guilty plea, Avergoon also admitted to participating in multiple tax evasion and fraud schemes with Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, former director at Chabad of Poway.

December 15, 2021 — A former executive of a Southern California-based funeral home company was sentenced on Monday to 27 months’ imprisonment for embezzling more than $2 million from his funeral home employer and lying on tax returns he filed with the Internal Revenue Service.

According to the FBI, Terry J. Harmon used the money he stole to fund a lavish lifestyle including paying for a house, gambling, traveling, and dining out.

By United States Attorney’s Office, Southern District of California ......   Global Gold Exchange, LLC and its managers, Richard M. Owen, James

October 18, 2021 — The chief executive officer (CEO) of Multinational Logistics Services (MLS), a large ship husbanding company that has received over $1 billion in U.S. Navy contracts since 2010, appeared in the United States today to face a criminal charge for his alleged participation in a bribery scheme.

LOS ANGELES — An Orange County real estate agent was charged today in a three-count indictment that accuses him of defrauding the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) by omitting income that he earned from the sale of multiple real estate properties. John W. Rampello, of Santa Ana, California, is charged with two counts of subscribing to a false tax return and one count of aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false tax return. According to the indictment, for tax years 2014 and 2015, Ramp...

Online Vendor Pleads Guilty to $5 Million Postage Fraud Scheme Details Written by IVN San Diego, California - Cuong H. Nguyen pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to conspiring to engage in a wide-ranging postage counterfeiting, forging, and tampering scheme that, over the course of multiple years and more than 160,000 packages, deprived the U.S. Postal Service of approximately $5 million of postage due and owing.   Special Agents from U.S. Postal Inspection Serv...

Imperial Valley News Imperial Valley News Center San Diego Woman Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Launder Almost $600,000 from Department of Defense Bribery Scheme Details Written by IVN San Diego, California - Liberty Gutierrez pleaded guilty today to conspiring to launder the proceeds of a bribery scheme involving a former employee of the Naval Information Warfare Center in San Diego, California, and various defense contractors. According to Guti...

A San Diego woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to taking part in a bribery scheme involving an ex-employee of the Naval Information Warfare Center in San Diego.