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Bloomberg Ex-Executive Sentenced in Kickback Scheme Case
A U.S. court sentenced Tuesday a former New York construction executive to three years in prison for evading taxes on US$1.4 million in bribes.
Bribery DollarFormer executive of Global Construction at Bloomberg LP in New York, failed to report the million-dollar sum to the U.S. tax authorities. He collected the money through a kickback scheme. (Photo: Gerd Altmann, Pixabay)For more than eight years, Anthony Guzzone, former director of Global Construction at Bloomberg LP in New York, failed to report the million-dollar sum to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Justice Department’s Tax Division said in a statement.
The proceeds came from the bribes Guzzone received from building subcontractors who, in exchange, were awarded various construction contracts and sub-contracts performed for Bloomberg as part of a kickback scheme.
Along with other Bloomberg managers and officials at Turner Construction, a building contractor that performed projects for the U.S. company, Guzzone asked for a total of more than $6 million in bribes.
The executives also received expensive Super Bowl tickets, wedding catering services, flight tickets and free construction work on their homes as alternative forms of payment.
The U.S. Department of Justice stated that Guzzone’s failure to report the illicit income during the period of 2010-2017 represented a tax loss of $450,000.
Apart from his Prison term, Guzzone will undergo three years of supervised release and will pay nearly $600,000 in restitution to the IRS.
In related proceedings, Michael Campana, a subordinate construction manager at Bloomberg and Guzzone’s co-conspirator, was sentenced to two years in prison in July 2020 for evading taxes on more than $420,000 in the same scheme.
Additionally, two other Turner Construction officials are awaiting sentencing for their part in the conspiracy.
Ronald Olson and Vito Nigro, two managers at a contracting company which worked with Bloomberg, were separately charged in July 2020 for evading taxes on more than $1.4 million and $1.8 million, respectively.
In all, the defendants are charged with failing to pay taxes on bribes exceeding $5.1 million, according to the DOJ.
https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/13678-bloomberg-ex-executive-sentenced-in-kickback-scheme-case
Former First-Grade Teacher Pleads Guilty To Sex Trafficking
EUGENE, Ore. — A former Eugene elementary school teacher pleaded guilty Tuesday for sexually abusing a girl he met on social media.
William Hamann, 38, pleaded guilty to one count of sex trafficking of a child.
According to court documents, on several occasions beginning in 2018 and continuing until July 2019, Hamann paid a teen girl for oral sex and recorded the minor performing the sex acts. The minor female was 15 years old during the first encounter with Hamman. Eugene Police Department detectives and FBI agents arrested Hamann on July 26, 2019, when he came to meet the minor a fourth time. Agents searched his mobile phone and found a recording of one of the sex acts. Hamman used social media to arrange the meetings with the minor.
On August 21, 2019, a federal grand jury in Eugene returned a four-count indictment charging Hamann with sexual exploitation and trafficking of a child, possession of child pornography, and attempted sex trafficking of a child.
Hamann was also charged with multiple counts in Lane County Circuit Court, including sodomy and sex abuse.
Hamann will be sentenced on March 1, 2021. The U.S. Attorney’s Office will recommend a sentence of 160 months in federal prison to be served consecutively to a 20-month prison sentence in Lane County.
As part of the plea agreement, Hamann has agreed to pay restitution in full to his victim.
Anyone who has information about the physical or online exploitation of children are encouraged to call the FBI at (503) 224-4181 or submit a tip online at tips.fbi.gov.
https://breaking911.com/former-first-grade-teacher-pleads-guilty-to-sex-trafficking/
MIT Professor Indicted For Hiding His Ties To China
BOSTON – A professor and researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in connection with failing to disclose contracts, appointments and awards from various entities in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to the U.S. Department of Energy.
Gang Chen, 56, was indicted on two counts of wire fraud, one count of failing to file a foreign bank account report (FBAR) and one count of making a false statement in a tax return. Chen was charged by criminal complaint and arrested on Jan. 14, 2021.
According to charging documents, Chen is a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in China. He is a professor and researcher at MIT where he serves as Director of the MIT Pappalardo Micro/Nano Engineering Laboratory and Director of the Solid-State Solar Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC). Since approximately 2013, Chen’s research at MIT has been funded by nearly $19 million in grants awarded by various U.S. federal agencies.
Since 2012, Chen has allegedly held various appointments with the PRC designed to promote the PRC’s technological and scientific development by providing advice and expertise – sometimes directly to PRC government officials – and often in exchange for financial compensation. This includes acting as an “overseas expert” for the PRC government at the request of the PRC Consulate Office in New York and serving as a member of at least two PRC Talent Programs. Since 2013, Chen allegedly received approximately $29 million of foreign funding, including $19 million from the PRC’s Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech).
From at least 2017 to 2019 when Chen was serving in several advisory roles for the PRC and PRC entities, Chen applied for and obtained a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grant in order to fund a portion of his research at MIT. In doing so, it is alleged that Chen failed to disclose information about his ongoing affiliations with the PRC as required by DOE.
Chen also allegedly failed to disclose to the IRS in his 2018 tax return that he maintained a bank account in the PRC with more than $10,000 in 2018.
The charge of wire fraud provides for a sentence of up to 20 years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of up to $250,000. The charge of making false statements provides for a sentence of up to five years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000. The charge of failing to file an FBAR provides for a sentence of up to five years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000. Sentences are imposed by a federal district court judge based upon the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
https://breaking911.com/mit-professor-indicted-for-hiding-his-ties-to-china/
'Strong Symbolic Act': Christian Church Firebombed in Islam-Dominated Stockholm Suburb
Hailing from the 12th century, the SpĂĄnga Church is one of the oldest in Stockholm. It is located on the outskirts of Tensta and is flanked by Rinkeby, designated as "vulnerable" by the authorities and characterised by violent crime and Muslim extremism.
The SpĂĄnga Church in the immigrant-heavy Stockholm suburb of Tensta has been firebombed, as three Molotov cocktails were thrown at the church, the newspaper Dagen reported.
One firebomb was hurled at the church gate and the other two at the windows, which were smashed.
Despite the bombs penetrating the window panes, the attackers didn't succeed in setting the church premises on fire, as the flames didn't catch on the church's interior.
The police have since cordoned off the area for a technical investigation and classified the crime as arson. So far, no one has been arrested for the attack.
"It is a strong symbolic act", pastor Jerker Alsterlund told national broadcaster SVT about the attack. "I don't know why anyone would want to do this. It can be about arousing disgust or provoking", Alsterlund added.
This is not the first time the SpĂĄnga Church has been subjected to violent attacks. In December 2018, an explosive device detonated in one of the church's meeting rooms. No one was convicted of that crime.
"This time it is worse when it is so clearly directed at the church", Jerker Alsterlund said, calling the previous attack "an experiment".
"In these areas, people are more aware that this is a symbolically negative act. You are more sensitive to churches and holy places if you come from regions where religion plays a greater role. So this probably provokes reactions in many people", Alsterlund told Dagen.
The attack was widely lamented on social media.
"Sad! The church of my childhood, where the graves of my parents and many friends lie. Who or what hates and wants to harm our churches?", one user wrote.
"​It is expected. Spånga Church is adjacent to Tensta, Hjulsta, and Rinkeby. How 'symbolic' is the location of the attack?", another one mused.
https://sputniknews.com/europe/202101211081833284-strong-symbolic-act-christian-church-firebombed-in-islam-dominated-stockholm-suburb/
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1351976063363129349
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