Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Prosecutors: Ewdy Jose Olivo and his brother used their Silver Spring tax service to steal identities and file false tax refund claims.
Two men were indicted by a federal grand jury Monday in Greenbelt on charges that they prepared and filed false tax returns using personal information stolen from customers of their Silver Spring tax service, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Baltimore announced in a news release. Ewdy Jose Olivo, 28, of Rockville, and Juan Manuel Olivo, 30, of Hyattsville, stole information and prepared false returns through Oligil Tax Services, which they owned and operated at 8549 Piney Branch Rd., accoring to an 18-count indictment. Click the PDF above to read the full indictment. The indictment seeks the forfeiture of $88,960 seized on April 10 from the tax office and from a Silver Spring home owned by Juan Olivo, the release said. From April 2007 to …
Monday, December 3, 2012
Germantown woman bought 119 iPads with government-issued credit card.
A Germantown woman who used a government-issued credit card to buy 119 iPads and other personal items was sentenced to six months in prison and was ordered to pay $106,096.09, the amount it cost the government, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Friday. According to federal prosecutors, Tamia M. McCoy, 33, used her government-issued credit card to buy electronics, designer perfume, a clutch bag and a queen-size mattress set—some of which she resold online—during her time as a purchasing agent and procurement analyst at the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. McCoy also used the card to pay for house cleaning and cell phone service. To avoid detection, McCoy falsified documents …
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
John Raley, 43, pleads guilty to sending images through a social networking website.
A Rockville man was sentenced Monday in federal court in Greenbelt to seven years in prison for possessing and distributing child pornography, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Baltimore said in a news release. John Raley, 43, pleaded guilty to sending 187 images of child pornography from his home and office to 23 groups on a social networking site, of which he was a member, the release said. The images were sent on multiple occasions, including in August, 2009 and December, 2009, prosecutors said. Federal law enforcement executed a search warrant for Raley’s home and former workplace on Jan. 13, 2011, seizing computers and other digital media containing more than 200,000 images and 4,082 videos “depicting children engaged in sexually …
Jason
7:38 am on Wednesday, December 5, 2012
I really wish she recieve more time than that.....6 months is not enough....Giving Montgomery county a Bad name...... more ›