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  • UPDATE: 2 Liberty Reserve Figures Jailed In New York; 1 Of Them Has Lawyer Experienced In Mob Cases

    recommendedreading1Two defendants in the alleged $6 billion Liberty Reserve money-laundering conspiracy are listed as inmates at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York. They are Vladimir Kats, also known as “Ragnar,” and Mark Marmilev, also known as “Marko” and “Mark Halls.”

    Kats is 41; Marmilev is 33. Their release dates are listed as “unknown.” Filings in the case show that both men are jailed by “consent” and have reserved their rights to apply for bail later.

    Attorney James R. Froccaro Jr. has entered an appearance notice for Marmilev. Froccaro previously has represented clients implicated in schemes involving organized-crime figures. He also has represented clients caught up in bizarre and incongruous crimes, such as the case of Dr. Felix Lanting, an 85-year-old physician accused of running a pill mill on Staten Island.

    From SILive on Jan. 13, 2013 (italics added):

    Prosecutors said Dr. Lanting wrote a staggering 3,029 oxycodone prescriptions for various patients through his private practice over more than six months that year. He sold the scripts, at an average of $200 each, to patients who didn’t need them, with the help of “bouncers” to keep recipients in line.

    Three of the so-called bouncers — all with criminal records — often worked out deals with their own “patients” to get oxycodone pills, which they allegedly sold for $10 to $15 on the street.

    Marmilev, who was arrrested last week in Brooklyn, was described by prosecutors as a designer of Liberty Reserve’s technological infrastructure. Liberty Reserve was described as a criminal enterprise.

    Liberty Reserve founder Arthur Budovsky was arrested last week in Spain. Seven individuals with ties to Liberty Reserve have been charged criminally. The others include Ahmed Yassine Abdelghani, also known as “Alex”; Allan Esteban Hildago Jimenez, also known as “Allen Garcia”; Azzeddine El Amine; and Maxim Chukharev.

     

     

  • BULLETIN: 2 Inmates, Including Purported ‘Sovereign,’ Escape From Chicago Jail; 1 Of The Escapees Got Mention On PP Blog Just Days Ago

    Jose Banks: source FBI.
    Jose Banks: source FBI.

    BULLETIN: Two inmates escaped from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago earlier today, the FBI said.

    One of the escapees — Jose Banks — is a purported “sovereign citizen” who got a mention on the PP Blog Dec. 15.

    Banks, a convicted bank robber,  is considered “armed and dangerous,” the FBI said.

    Also considered armed and dangerous is Kenneth Conley, who apparently escaped with Banks this morning. Conley, too, is a bank robber, the FBI said. He is described as “male/white, age 38, 6’0” tall, 185 pounds.”

    Banks is described as “male/black, age 37, 5’8” tall, 160 pounds,” the FBI said.

    The Chicago Tribune is reporting that Banks was convicted just last week and told a federal judge, “I’ll be seeking retribution as well as damages.”

    From a Tribune Breaking News report (italics added):

    Two convicted bank robbers escaped from the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in the Loop this morning by tying bedsheets together and shimmying down at least 15 stories to the ground below, officials say.

    Kenneth Conley: source: FBI.
    Kenneth Conley: source: FBI.

    A “widespread manhunt” is under way, the FBI said.

    Banks and Conley are “believed to be traveling together” and “were reportedly last seen earlier this morning in the Tinley Park area, the FBI said.

    They are “both convicted bank robbers” and “should be considered armed and dangerous,” the FBI said.

    “If you see them, contact local law enforcement or the Chicago Field Office of the FBI at 312-421-6700,” the FBI said.

    Link to FBI statement.

  • UNBELIEVABLE: ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Imprisoned For Harassing Mayor Of Kirkland, Wash., Files Lawsuit Against Federal Prosecutors; Complaint By David Russell Myrland Apparently Alleges ‘Grammar’ Conspiracy By Public Officials

    UPDATED 3:38 P.M. ET (U.S.A.)

    David Russell Myrland, the Washington state “sovereign citizen” ordered in December 2011 to spend 40 months in federal prison for threatening the mayor of Kirkland and other public officials, has filed a lawsuit against federal prosecutors in Seattle that alleges (apparently) that law enforcement engaged in a grammar conspiracy against him.

    The story first was reported today by Seattle Weekly.

    Myrland’s 28-page complaint (including purported exhibits) formally was filed Jan. 23. Information within the complaint suggests Myrland began working on the document only days after his prison sentence was handed down Dec. 2. He is listed as an inmate at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Chicago.

    MCC houses prisoners of all security levels, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website.

    While apparently alleging a grammar conspiracy by government officials contributed to his legal problems in a threats case, David Russell Myrland may be demonstrating his own lack of command over language skills.

    “Sovereign citizens” are known to file all sorts of wild documents, but  Myrland’s grammar lawsuit may set a new standard for the absurd. The document appears to parse virtually every word of a criminal complaint filed against him in the threats case by a special agent of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

    It does the same thing with Myrland’s plea agreement in the case.

    Both documents purport to break down individual words into their individual parts of speech, but the complaint suggests Myrland himself may suffer from grammar confusion. The word “mayor,” for instance, is declared an adjective under the interpretation “key” Myrland included in the complaint.

    “Mayor” is actually a noun.

    Myrland also declares the word “the” an adverb under his numbering system. “The” is actually a definite article. Mistakes involving other words pepper the complaint.

    Seattle Weekly reported that the office of U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan declined comment on Myrland’s complaint, “except to say he could face civil sanctions for filing a frivolous lawsuit. “