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Anonymous ID: 6e0577 Feb. 26, 2019, 9:58 p.m. No.5410330   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Former NYPD Detective Sentenced to Three Months’ Imprisonment for Committing Perjury in a Federal Prosecution

Defendant Falsely Testified About Photo Arrays

 

Michael Foder, a former detective employed by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) at the time of the charged conduct, was sentenced in federal court in Brooklyn today by United States District Judge Pamela K. Chen to three months’ imprisonment.

 

In August 2018, Foder pleaded guilty to perjury in connection with false statements he made under oath during a criminal proceeding. Foder was arrested in February 2018 and resigned from the NYPD in August 2018.

 

Richard P. Donoghue, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, William F. Sweeney, Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office (FBI), and James P. O’Neill, Commissioner, NYPD, announced the sentence.

 

“Integrity is an essential characteristic for every law enforcement officer and the overwhelming majority of officers earn and deserve the trust of the public,” stated United States Attorney Donoghue. “In choosing to lie, this defendant undermined fellow officers and rendered himself unfit to serve as a law enforcement officer.”

 

On December 29, 2016, Foder, then assigned to the 70th Precinct in Flatbush, Brooklyn, falsely testified under oath at a hearing in a federal prosecution about when and how he showed photographs of two robbery suspects to a victim of a carjacking.

 

Following the hearing, the government found discrepancies in the photo array identifications, including when the identifications had occurred.

 

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/former-nypd-detective-sentenced-three-months-imprisonment-committing-perjury-federal

Anonymous ID: 6e0577 Feb. 26, 2019, 10:13 p.m. No.5410618   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Former Student Charged with Damaging Computers at Albany College

Accused of Using “USB Killer Device” to Destroy Dozens of Computers

 

ALBANY, NEW YORK – Vishwanath Akuthota, age 26, of Albany, was arrested on February 22 in North Carolina after being charged with intentionally causing damage to protected computers owned by The College of Saint Rose in Albany.

 

The announcement was made by United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith; Chief Eric Hawkins of the Albany Police Department (APD); and James N. Hendricks, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

 

According to a criminal complaint, on February 14, 2019, Akuthota entered numerous locations around the Saint Rose campus and inserted a device into more than 50 computers used by students.

 

The device, which resembles a normal USB memory stick, sends a rapid series of power surges into a computer’s electrical hardware, rendering it inoperable. The damage exceeds $50,000. The charges in the complaint are merely accusations.

 

The defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

 

Akuthota is a citizen of India, residing in the United States on a student visa.

 

Akuthota appeared in federal court in Raleigh, North Carolina, where a United States Magistrate Judge ordered him detained and transported to the Northern District of New York.

 

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndny/pr/former-student-charged-damaging-computers-albany-college