Former real estate executive Gjonaj pleads guilty to wire fraud, faces about 8 years in prison
Former real estate executive faces up to 8 years in prison
Sentencing scheduled for 2 p.m. June 15
Viktor Gjonaj
A former commercial real estate executive entered a guilty plea in federal court Wednesday to a wire fraud charge as part of a plea agreement in a $26.4 million fraud case.
Viktor Gjonaj, who admitted to his role in a complex scheme that defrauded investors of millions so he could play the Daily 3 and Daily 4 Michigan Lottery games, faces up to 97 months, or about 8 years, in federal prison.
âAccording to a Wednesday, Feb. 24 court order by Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Leo Bowman, Melissa Borden, owner of Devoted Barn at 1301 W. Rose Center Rd., in Rose Township, has 14 days (March 10) to propose a plan to remove and relocate dozens of dogs from her property in 60 days (April 25). On Feb. 10, the court determined the organization had violated a previous court order to remove 21 dogs from the property.
âBordon, co-founder of Devoted Friends Animal Society, Inc. (Devoted Friends) runs Devoted Barn.
âIn a live Facebook video that she filmed following the judgeâs order, Borden said she will be appealing the courtâs decision and will ask for a stay to keep the rescued dogs on the property while the case is being appealed.
State Attorney General Dana Nessel’s legal team has not banished its hopes of using Floyd Galloway’s sexual assault on an apparent stranger as evidence against him in the murder case of Danielle Stislicki,.
Nessel s team failed to get the decision they wanted from Oakland County Judge Phyllis McMillen and then the Michigan Court of Appeals.
The case is sealed, but online records at least show that the state’s appeal now has a supreme court case number.
Supreme Court staff confirmed that state’s Assistant Attorney General Scott Shimkus filed a formal request for the attention of Michigan s highest court on Feb. 11, and Galloway’s attorney Ellen Michaels has until next month to formally respond.
Keeping a vow she made during her election campaign last year, Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald announced Tuesday that she has taken steps to give “juvenile lifers” a chance for parole.
McDonald said in a news release Tuesday that she had filed resentencing notices with the Michigan Attorney General’s Office and with Oakland County Circuit Court on behalf of 22 state prison inmates who d committed crimes in Oakland County. A resentencing notice amounts to a detailed review of a case and a recommendation for a new sentence with a possibility for parole.
Each of the 22 inmates had been convicted of homicide as a juvenile and sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole a sentence declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court in a sweeping 2012 decision called Miller v. Alabama.