U.S. District Judge Freda L. Wolfson also ordered Lamont Powell, a/k/a "Mont G," 29, Camden, to pay a $2,000 fine and to serve 8 years of supervised release upon the completion of his prison sentence.

Bradley J. Schlozman, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that an Oregon man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for mailing threatening letters to a federal magistrate judge and a former U.S. Attorney.

This afternoon a federal grand jury in Denver returned an 18 count indictment, charging KAH POH CHEAH, age 28, of Thornton, WAI CHONG KONG, age 38, of Highlands Ranch, and KIT CHI HO, age 43, of Highlands Ranch, with a variety of crimes related to an interstate prostitution ring the three were allegedly running.

U.S. Attorney Kevin V. Ryan announced that eight members of the Down Below Gang (DBG) - a violent street gang based in the Sunnydale Public Housing Project in San Francisco's Visitacion Valley neighborhood - pleaded guilty today to racketeering conspiracy charges and conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. Four of the defendants pleaded guilty to violent acts as part of a conspiracy to participate in a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO).

MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and MARK J. MERSHON, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), announced the arrest today of LOUIS GIUFFRE on charges relating to unauthorized computer access and theft of proprietary and confidential data from his former employer, Netsoft USA, Inc. ("Netsoft"). As alleged in the Complaint unsealed in Manhattan federal court earlier today:

Lewis Gottlieb, a Houston area psychiatrist, was sentenced to prison and ordered to pay millions to the Medicare and Medicaid health care benefit programs for his involvement in a motorized wheelchair fraud scheme, U.S. Attorney Don DeGabrielle announced today.

United States Attorney Kevin V. Ryan announced that a federal grand jury in Oakland indicted John Frances Griffin, of Orinda, California, on November 30, 2006, with mail fraud and tax evasion, in a scheme in which he lied to investors and employees about making significant loans to the company that he was running. These charges are the result of an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

An FBI agent assigned to the Hostage Rescue Team (HRT), who was taking part in a training exercise on a Fort A.P. Hill range, was accidentally shot and fatally wounded this afternoon. The agent has been identified as Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) Gregory J. Rahoi, age 38 of Wisconsin.

Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Philip J. Cline, Superintendent of theChicago Police Department (CPD) and Thomas Dart, Cook County Sheriff announced today the arrest of BURIM BEZIRI, age 21, whose last known address was in Lyons, Illinois. BEZIRI was a fugitive who is suspected of participating in the December 2002 sexual assault of a then 15 year old teenager from Naperville.

ELEVEN CHARGED IN NARCOTICS INDICTMENT RESULTING FROM THE LARGEST NARCOTICS SEIZURE IN CLERMONT COUNTY HISTORY

A federal jury today convicted four men who were affiliated with a San Diego brokerage house on securities fraud charges related to a "pump-and-dump" scheme that cost victims more than $5 million.