{"id":107204,"date":"2020-11-14T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=107204"},"modified":"2020-11-13T22:46:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T03:46:15","slug":"stupid-criminals-of-the-week-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=107204","title":{"rendered":"Stupid criminals of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cincinnati Councilman Jeff Pastor traded votes for cash, bribes, a trip to Miami, Feds say<\/h3>\n

FBI agents arrested Cincinnati City Councilman Jeff Pastor early Tuesday for leading what authorities describe as a brazen bribery scheme involving payoffs for help with city development projects.<\/p>\n

Federal prosecutors say Pastor, a Republican who joined council in January 2018, began soliciting money from developers within months of taking office and, in some instances, accepted bags of cash in return for his vote or other favorable treatment.<\/p>\n

A friend of Pastor\u2019s, Tyran Marshall, also faces federal charges and is described by prosecutors as “a middleman” who arranged for some payments and set up a charitable nonprofit through which Pastor funneled bribes.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors say undercover FBI agents posing as developers used electronic surveillance and at least two whistleblowers to unravel the pay-to-play scheme, which included a trip to Miami with a developer and solicitations by Pastor for cash, investment opportunities and jobs.<\/p>\n

Throughout the investigation, prosecutors say, Pastor suggested dollar amounts for the bribes and directed the agents on how to pay them.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes, the cash was literally handed to Pastor,\u201d said U.S. Attorney David DeVillers, who will lead the prosecution. \u201cSome of the things are so brazen.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said Pastor, who is accused of collecting $55,000 in bribes, at one point told the undercover agents he should be paid $200,000 for his help and sought a “monthly retainer” for his continuing assistance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Much more at the source; MSN<\/a><\/p>\n

Police: West Des Moines cop injured by driver drinking and watching a movie on vehicle dashboard<\/h3>\n

A man who seriously injured a West Des Moines police officer in a crash early Sunday admitted to investigators that he had been drinking alcohol and was playing a movie on his dashboard of his vehicle when the accident occurred.<\/p>\n

West Des Moines police officer Jon Kaufman was waiting for a tow truck during a traffic stop near Westown Parkway on Interstate Highway 35 when a car driven by John Schwartz, 61, of Kellogg, crashed into his patrol vehicle, police said.<\/p>\n

In addition to drinking and watching a movie, Schwartz admitted to crash investigators that he had the cruise control set and relied too much on vehicle lane assist technology, according to an Iowa State Patrol obtained incident report obtained Tuesday by the Des Moines Register.<\/p>\n

A search warrant was obtained for blood and urine samples and charges are pending those results, said Iowa State Patrol Sgt. Alex Dinkla said.<\/p>\n

Kaufman and Schwartz both suffered serious injuries and were hospitalized, according to police.<\/p>\n

Kaufman’s condition had improved, West Des Moines police Sgt. Jason Bryan said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Schwartz is under investigation for drunken driving and distracted driving. Police did not provide an update to his condition Tuesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source; MSN<\/a><\/p>\n

Virginia doctor faces up to 465 years for fraud, performing unneeded surgeries<\/h3>\n

We may have talked about this guy when the story originally broke a while back. He was known at this hospital for doing orders of magnitude more hysterectomies than any other doctor.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department said in a statement Monday that a federal jury convicted Javaid Perwaiz on 52 counts related to his defrauding of health insurance programs and falsely telling his patients they needed surgeries.<\/p>\n

The Chesapeake doctor had pleaded not guilty. He could face up to 465 years in prison. Sentencing is scheduled next March 31.<\/p>\n

\u201cDr. Perwaiz preyed upon his trusting patients and committed horrible crimes to feed his greed,\u201d said G. Zachary Terwilliger, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.<\/p>\n

Federal prosecutors said last year that many of the procedures Perwaiz performed were unwanted and that 173 women had come forward since his arrest to report similar experiences, including repetitive surgeries they never asked for. Prosecutors said he performed the surgeries \u201cfor his own financial gain.\u201d<\/p>\n

Authorities said Perwaiz billed private and governmental insurers millions of dollars for irreversible hysterectomies and other procedures that were not medically necessary. Perwaiz sometimes would falsely tell his patients they needed the surgeries to avoid cancer, they said. He also billed insurers hundreds of thousands of dollars for diagnostic procedures he never performed, they added.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors also said Perwaiz falsified the records of pregnant patients so he could induce their labor early, prior to the recommended gestational age that minimizes risk to the mother and baby, to ensure he would be reimbursed for the deliveries. Perwaiz also violated the 30-day waiting period Medicaid requires for elective sterilizations by submitting backdated forms, according to authorities.<\/p>\n

Perwaiz\u2019s lawyer, Lawrence Woodward Jr., had said last year that his client had received a flood of unsolicited emails from patients who described Perwaiz\u2019s \u201cfine qualities\u201d and \u201chow he helped them.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1996, Perwaiz was sentenced by a federal judge to five years probation and ordered to pay more than $100,000 in fines and restitution after pleading guilty to two counts of tax fraud. Prosecutors dropped four other counts in exchange for a guilty plea in that case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source; Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n

NYPD Officer Facing Federal Charges Of Conspiring To Import And Distribute Cocaine<\/h3>\n

An NYPD officer has been arrested and accused of conspiring to import and distribute cocaine.<\/p>\n

Officer Amaury Abreu was supposed to be upholding the law while he worked at the 113th Precinct, but instead federal prosecutors say he was breaking it by allegedly helping a multinational drug operation import and distribute cocaine in New York, CBS2\u2019s Hazel Sanchez reported Monday.<\/p>\n

The feds say from January 2016 until October this year, 34-year-old Abreu, of Hauppauge, used his policing expertise to help a multinational drug ring stay one step ahead of the law.<\/p>\n

While other alleged members of the operation distributed the cocaine after it arrived in New York, Abreu, while assigned to the 113th Precinct in Queens, allegedly provided them with law enforcement intel, including a head\u2019s up on warrant checks involving members of the group.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors say he was in regular contact with high-ranking members of the unidentified drug organization, even traveling to the Dominican Republic to meet with them.<\/p>\n

In January 2016, Abreu allegedly reached out to the group\u2019s leadership saying, \u201cToday, I\u2019m going to find out the thing I couldn\u2019t yesterday because there were too many people at the office.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prosecutors say drug enforcement agents have seized more than 350 kilos of cocaine from the organization.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy joining forces with his co-conspirators, Abreu has allegedly committed serious crimes, disgraced his NYPD badge and betrayed the public trust, as well as fellow members of law enforcement who put their lives on the line to interdict drugs that endanger our communities,\u201d Acting U.S. Attorney Seth Ducharme said.<\/p>\n

Added NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea, \u201cThere is no place for corruption in the NYPD and it will always be prosecuted fully.\u201d<\/p>\n

Abreu, a nine-year veteran of the force, was arrested at his home on Monday morning and arraigned in the afternoon. He pleaded not guilty to all of the charges.<\/p>\n

Three of his alleged co-conspirators are also under arrest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source; CBS New York<\/a><\/p>\n

A 47-year-old woman impersonated an FBI agent to get free food at a Chick-fil-A in Georgia<\/h3>\n

A woman who pretended to be an FBI agent on multiple occasions was arrested for commanding free food from workers at a Chick-fil-A restaurant in Georgia.<\/p>\n

The woman, Kimberly George Ragsdale, is accused of going into a Chick-fil-A restaurant in Rockmart, Georgia, and telling workers that they would be detained if they didn’t give her free food, Rockmart Police Chief Randy Turner told the Polk County Standard Journal. After Ragsdale attempted the ruse numerous times, Chick-fil-A workers called the police on Thursday, the newspaper reported.<\/p>\n

When officers arrived at the scene to arrest her, she was in the restaurant’s parking lot in a white van, according to a police report viewed by Insider.<\/p>\n

When asked for identification, Ragsdale maintained her claim that she was an agent and told the officers she only had electronic credentials, according to the police report.<\/p>\n

When police asked Ragsdale to get out of her van, she declined until a police sergeant warned that she “would be tased if she did not get out,” the report said. Ragsdale was arrested and handcuffed. As she was being taken into custody, the report said, Ragsdale “began to talking into her shirt,” pretending as though she was speaking into a hidden radio to tell someone she had been arrested.<\/p>\n

“We are thankful for the observant and professional staff at CFA who knew what to do and gathered the info needed for us to make our case and catch her in the act,” Rockmart Police Chief Randy Turner told the Polk County Standard Journal.<\/p>\n

According to the police report, the 47-year-old woman was charged with “impersonating a public officer or employee.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source; MSN<\/a><\/p>\n

Once again, many thanks to the KoB for help in tracking down these idiots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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