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Submitted at 12:30 PM June 14, 2012

The Miami Herald on June 13, 2012released the following:Federal prosecutors have droppedcharges against a member of a SouthFlorida family accused of supporting thePakistani Taliban, a designated terrorist

group.BY JAY [email protected] one-time Miami cab driver who was

detained for nearly a year on chargesalleging that he provided aid to PakistaniTaliban terrorists wont face trial, afterfederal prosecutors dropped the caseagainst him, according to a dismissalorder filed Wednesday.The U.S. attorneys office provided no

reason for dismissing charges againstIrfan Khan, 39, a U.S. citizen who ismarried with two children. The one-

paragraph dismissal order was signedTuesday by U.S. District Judge RobertScola.We are unable to comment on theinternal deliberations that led to ourdecision, said Alicia Valle, specialcounsel to U.S. Attorney Wifredo Ferrer.However, the charges against his co-defendants remain in place and trial ispending for those defendants in U.S.custody.Khan was arrested in May 2011 in Los

Angeles, where he was working part-time

in a software computer job. He wasindicted on charges of conspiring with hisfather and brother, imams who led twomosques in Miami-Dade and Browardcounties, and three others to providefinancial support to the Pakistani Taliban,a designated terrorist organization.Khan had been detained in the Federal

Detention Center in downtown Miamiuntil April, when he was granted a bondby a federal magistrate judge.

Irfan is obviously pleased that thegovernment has recognized what wevelong known that he did not send anymoney to Pakistan to aid the Taliban,said his attorney, Miami acting federalpublic defender Michael Caruso. Hishappiness is tempered by his father andbrothers continued imprisonment, but helooks forward to rebuilding his life with

his wife and two young children.Last year, Irfan Khan; his father, HafizKhan, 77, the former leader of a Miamimosque; his brother, Izhar Khan, 25, theone-time head of a Margate mosque; andthree others were charged with conspiringto collect and send at least $50,000 fromSouth Florida to the Taliban between 2008and 2010. The other defendants allbelieved to be living in Pakistan areIrfan Khans sister, Amina Khan; her son,Alam Zeb; and Ali Rehman.Irfan Khan, in particular, was accused of

making four wire transfers for $990,

$980, $980, and $500 to Pakistan,including one to his sister.The FBI used a confidential informant,

bank transfer records and more than 1,000wiretapped phone calls to build the case,which made national headlines.The Taliban has been accused of

attacking both U.S. and Pakistaniinterests. It has been linked to al-Qaida,and is suspected of playing a role in thefailed May 2010 attempt to bomb NewYorks Times Square.Last August, U.S. District Judge

Adalberto Jordan ordered that Hafiz Khan,the elderly Muslim cleric, and both of hissons remain in custody until trial. Jordansaid evidence against the two youngerKhans was less compelling than thatagainst their father. But the judge decidedthe case was still strong enough to warrantdetention, citing their danger to thecommunity and risk of flight.In April, however, Magistrate Judge

Patrick White released Irfan Khan from

detention to home confinement on acombined bond package totaling about$700,000. White granted the bond afterprosecutors agreed to the terms proposedby Khans lawyers in exchange for theirdropping his appeal.His father and brother are still locked up

and prohibited from having contact witheach other in the federal detention center.

Their trial, a complex case built onwiretaps authorized under the ForeignIntelligence Surveillance Act, is set forearly November.Douglas McNabb McNabb Associates,

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R. Allen Stanford, the former board ofdirectors chairman of StanfordInternational Bank (SIB), was sentenced

today in Houston to a total of 110 years inprison for orchestrating a 20-yearinvestment fraud scheme in which hemisappropriated $7 billion from SIB tofinance his personal businesses.
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The New York Times on June 13, 2012released the following:

By BENJAMIN WEISERA terrorism case in Manhattan that raisedkey questions about governmentinterrogation tactics ended abruptly onWednesday after the defendant pleadedguilty to conspiring to support a Somaliterrorist group.The defendant, an Eritrean man namedMohamed Ibrahim Ahmed, admitted inFederal District Court that he trained in acamp run by the Somali group, Al Shabab,in 2009. The case had been seen as apotential test of the Obamaadministrations strategy of interrogating

terrorism suspects for both intelligenceand law enforcement purposes.Indeed, the plea came as the judge, P.Kevin Castel, was poised to rule on amotion by Mr. Ahmeds lawyers seekingsuppression of statements he had made tothe Federal Bureau of Investigation whilehe was in custody in Nigeria; his lawyersargued that the statements had not beenvoluntary and, thus, were inadmissible.I have in my hand a 60-page draft of thedecision on the motion to suppress,Judge Castel, holding up a thick

document, said in court before acceptingMr. Ahmeds plea. The judge did notreveal how he would have ruled on themotion, but said that the ruling itselfwould now be suppressed.Mr. Ahmed, 38, who had lived inSweden, was scheduled for trial on July 9.He had been accused of providingmaterial support to a terrorist group,receiving training and bomb-makinginstruction in Shabab military camps inSomalia in 2009 and using a firearm in acrime of violence. The firearm count

alone carried a mandatory minimumsentence of 30 years and a maximumsentence of life in prison. As a result ofMr. Ahmeds plea to two conspiracycounts he faces a maximum sentence

of 10 years when he is sentenced on Nov.2, the judge said in court.Mr. Ahmeds lawyer, Sabrina Shroff, saidafter the proceeding, Im sure Mr.Ahmed would have liked to havechallenged the actions of the UnitedStates. But, she added, given thedifference between a maximum 10-yearsentence and what could have resultedfrom a guilty verdict, it would have been ahumongous risk to go to trial.Preet Bharara, the United States attorneyin Manhattan, said Mr. Ahmed hadtraveled a long way from his home in

Sweden to Somalia, where he took up thecause of Al Shabab, a deadly terroristorganization and sworn enemy of theUnited States and its people.Mr. Ahmed told the judge that inSomalia, he contributed 2,000 euros to AlShabab and trained in one of its militarycamps, knowing that the United Statesconsidered it a terrorist organization.Mr. Ahmed was taken into custody byNigeria in 2009 under suspicion of beingan agent for Al Qaeda. He was laterinterrogated by separate groups of

American officials, known colloquially asdirty and clean teams.The first team questioned him forintelligence purposes, without advisinghim of his rights, prosecutors have said.About a week later, a second team, ofF.B.I. agents, read him his rights, whichhe waived, and he began to makeincriminating statements, the governmentsays. An issue before the judge had beenhow separate the American officials keptthe two interrogations.A prosecutor, Benjamin Naftalis, told

Judge Castel that had the case gone totrial, the evidence would have includedMr. Ahmeds statements and testimonyfrom cooperating witnesses. Prosecutorshave said a former Shabab military

commander has been cooperating;although he has not been identified, hisdescription resembles that of AhmedAbdulkadir Warsame, a Somali capturedby the United States military last year andquestioned aboard a naval vessel for abouttwo months.Douglas McNabb McNabb Associates,P.C.sFederal Criminal Defense AttorneysVideos:Federal Crimes Be Careful

Federal Crimes Be ProactiveFederal Crimes Federal IndictmentTo find additional federal criminal news,please read Federal Criminal DefenseDaily.Douglas McNabb and other members ofthe U.S. law firm practice and write and/or report extensively on matters involvingFederal Criminal Defense, INTERPOLRed Notice Removal, InternationalExtradition Defense, OFAC SDN

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"So as we continue to bring our lawenforcement tools to bear to investigate,prosecute and punish elder abuseperpetrators, we at the Department alsoknow that the most effective elder abusecase is the one we prevent," said ActingAssociate Attorney General West.



Today in federal court in the EasternDistrict of North Carolina, a jury foundAnes Subasic, 35, guilty of conspiring toprovide material support to terrorists andconspiring to murder, kidnap, maim andinjure persons abroad.



Seven individuals and four check cashingbusinesses were charged today in theEastern District of New York and theCentral District of California for theiralleged roles in separate schemes toviolate the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA).



"For me, and for todays Department of

Justice, protecting older Americans is atop priority that we advance on multiplefronts," said Deputy Attorney General

Cole.
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Submitted at 10:31 AM June 14, 2012

ABC News on June 14, 2012 released thefollowing:

By SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJERAssociated PressA 20-year-old Briton suspected of links

to the hacking group Lulz Security isaccused of cracking into websites for aFox reality TV show, a venerable newsshow and other sites to deface them orsteal personal information, federalprosecutors said Wednesday.A federal grand jury indicted Ryan

Cleary on conspiracy and hacking chargesfor allegedly hacking sites for the talentcompetition The X-Factor, the site forPBS NewsHour, Sony Pictures and

others.The indictment filed Tuesday alleges

Cleary and his co-conspirators wouldidentify security vulnerabilities incompanies computer systems and usethem to gain unauthorized access and,often, cause mayhem.In a separate and similar case filed

against Cleary in the United Kingdom in2011, he faces allegations that he andothers hacked a law enforcement agency,the Serious Organized Crime Agency, andvarious British music sites all while he

was still a teenager.Cleary was taken into custody in Marchand remains in custody in the UnitedKingdom, said Laura Eimiller, FBIspokeswoman.In one instance, the U.S. indictment

alleges, Cleary conspired to steal theconfidential information of people who

registered to get information on auditionsfor the Fox talent competition The X-Factor.That hack was the first to be claimed by

LulzSec, an offshoot of the larger hacking

group Anonymous, in tweets about itsinternational hacking spree that began inMay 2011.Later that month, LulzSec claimed to

have hacked the website of the PublicBroadcasting Service, where a phonynews story was posted claiming the deadrapper Tupac Shakur was alive and livingin New Zealand.The post caused a stir on the site for

PBS NewsHour, an award-winningbroadcast news show, and came after thenetwork aired a documentary onWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange that

was deemed critical. PBS ombudsman atthe time defended the programs treatmentof Assange as tough but proper.The indictment also alleges LulzSec and

Cleary hacked into the computer systemsof Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. inJune 2011 to steal confidentialinformation of users who had registeredon the companys website.Cleary faces a maximum of 25 years if

convicted on all charges.Calls and emails to Fox, Sony and The

NewsHour seeking comment and

confirmation were not immediatelyreturned Wednesday.An after-hours call to Clearys legal

representative in London was notreturned. It was not immediately clearwho would represent him in the UnitedStates.LulzSec also has claimed responsibility

for hacking incidents not listed in Clearysindictment, including hacking the CIAspublic-facing website and the Atlantachapter of an FBI partner organizationcalled InfraGard.

Douglas McNabb McNabb Associates,


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Derrick L. Shoemake, 50, of MorenoValley, Calif., was sentenced by U.S.District Court Judge Dolly M. Gee in theCentral District of California.



Reuters on June 14, 2012 released thefollowing:By Anna Driver and Eileen OGrady(Reuters) Allen Stanford, the formerTexas billionaire convicted of an $7billion Ponzi scheme, was sentenced to110 years in prison by a U.S. federal judgeon Thursday.Stanford, who was convicted of 13 felony

counts of fraud and conspiracy andobstruction by a Houston jury in March,used fraudulent certificates of depositissued by his offshore bank in Antigua tobilk thousands of investors out of theirsavings.In sentencing Stanford, U.S. District

Judge David Hittner, who presided over

his six-week trial earlier this year, calledStanfords actions one of the mostegregious criminal frauds.The 110-year sentence compared with

150 years handed down to BernardMadoff, who pleaded guilty in March2009 to running a Ponzi scheme.Speaking before his sentencing on

Thursday, Stanford denied defraudinganyone and blamed the U.S. governmentfor ruining his business by seizing hisassets. They destroyed it and turned it tonothing, he said. Stanford was a realbrick-and-mortar global financial empire.Prosecutors had asked for a 230-year

sentence, arguing in court papers thatStanfords crime was one of the mostegregious frauds in history.

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Stanfords attorneys had asked for asentence of about three years, or the sameamount of time the 62-year-old has beenin federal custody.

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