Blog Posts in 2011
Posted on Dec 31, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
Federal law enforcement agents arrested a man at a Texas airport yesterday after explosives were discovered in his luggage. The man, whose name has not yet been released, was detained at a security ...
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Posted on Dec 28, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
A former Newport Beach attorney who was convicted of fraud last year was sentenced to 70 months in prison yesterday. Gerald M. Shaw was arrested in 2007 and indicted on federal fraud and money ...
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Posted on Dec 27, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
A local man was arrested last week by local and federal law enforcement agents on suspicion of forcing a young girl into prostitution and repeatedly sexually assaulting her. Michael Vincent Pree, who ...
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Posted on Dec 26, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
As any experienced Los Angeles Federal Criminal Defense Attorney can tell you, there are many criminal offenses that count as federal crimes. Even violent crimes such as assault, weapons possession or ...
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Posted on Dec 11, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years in a federal prison last Wednesday after being convicted of several charges of corruption last June. Blagojevich famously was caught ...
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Posted on Dec 7, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
An agent for the United States Border Patrol was convicted of harboring an illegal immigrant that turned out to be his own father. In 2010, Marcos Manzano, Jr. had been working for the U.S. Border ...
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Posted on Dec 4, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
An 85-year-old woman was sentenced to two and a half years in a federal prison last Thursday for her role in an immigrant smuggling operation. Felicitas Gurrola, a resident of the San Diego area near ...
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Posted on Nov 28, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
Federal law enforcement agents announced today that they have shut down as many as 150 websites that they say were selling counterfeit merchandise online. Agents for both the International Customs ...
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Posted on Nov 27, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
Three people in Florida pleaded guilty in a federal court proceeding last week to fraud charges that netted up to $1 million in a scam against several elderly locals. The South Florida trio is accused ...
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Posted on Nov 27, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
Local law enforcement agents in Boston, Massachusetts have reported that a man viewed child pornography on while on a flight from Salt Lake City, Utah to Boston. Forty-seven-year-old Grant Smith was ...
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Posted on Nov 19, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
Officials for the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) food stamp program are coming out in force to zero in on convenience stores and larger grocery stores that are trafficking food ...
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Posted on Nov 18, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
Law enforcement officials in New York City busted as many a ring of identity theives today that are suspected of stealing credit card information from restaurant patrons. According to reports, the ...
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Posted on Nov 10, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
Officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) announced today that they had uncovered a ring of Eastern European cyber-criminals that had hijacked over four million computers in the United ...
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Posted on Nov 7, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
As any experienced Los Angeles Federal Criminal Defense Attorney can attest, there are many crimes that are considered federal criminal offenses. Violent crimes are certainly capable of being tried ...
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Posted on Oct 13, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
The so-called "Underwear Bomber" pleaded guilty this week in a Michigan court to attempting to blow up a commercial airline flight on Christmas Day in 2009. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is a ...
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Posted on Oct 11, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
Earlier this month federal prosecutors working under the guidance of the Obama administration announced they would be cracking down on marijuana dispensaries in the state of California. California has ...
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Posted on Sep 28, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
A man in North Hollywood is in serious need of a Federal Criminal Attorney after federal immigration authorities arrested him as part of a week long operation that netted almost 3,000 criminal aliens. ...
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Posted on Sep 28, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
Countrywide, a mortgage company that has been at the heart of the mortgage crisis, was involved in further criminal activity that requires a skilled Los Angeles Federal Criminal Attorney . According ...
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Posted on Sep 16, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
When a Los Angeles Federal Criminal Defense Lawyer defends someone in federal court, the stakes are high and the crimes are complex. In state courts, the prosecution may not be as intense. However, ...
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Posted on Sep 12, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
For the general public, getting arrested for a small crime usually leads to a misdemeanor charge, or even just a fine. However, there are many times when a person encounters the federal law and has to ...
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Posted on Aug 26, 2011 By Michael King
Our lawyers are pleased to announce the launch of our Los Angeles Federal Crimes blog.
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