Subject: U.S. Attorney's Office

• The Brothers Graham (Part I)

  Once upon a time in Humble, there lived two guys named Pat and Mike. They had a way of making people believe, and those people included some of Texas' highest public officials. While it turned out that their stories usually were just too good to be true,

  March 28, 1996

• Steroids and Roger Clemens

  December 19, 2007

• Friends Don't Let Friends Buy Guns For Friends

  July 30, 2008

• He's Guilty -- Of Generating Good Quotes

  September 29, 2008

• Fed-up Feds

  Will the "temp" United States Attorney exile dissidents to the border?

  March 11, 1999

• Double Trouble

  Juan Diaz just wanted his citizenship. The feds wanted a drug-running felon.

  August 19, 2004

• The Man Who Filled Montrose With Foreclosure Signs Is Convicted

  What's it coming to these days when you can't even go in and buy an Aston-Martin without getting busted for fraud?Especially after you've done so much to ensure that Montrose is full of foreclosed-upon townhomes?These are the questions Craig Curtis, 36, is no doubt asking himself after his conviction today on charges of ID theft in connection with a mortgage-fraud scheme.The US Attorney's Office says Curtis was first noticed by authorities when he tried to buy an Aston-Martin (that's James Bond'

  December 10, 2008

• Reverse Sting

  February 15, 1996

• The Insider

  July 18, 1996

• The Insider

  July 25, 1996

• Guilty Of Medicaid Fraud? Depends

  If you're going to try to defraud the government, please -- for your own self-esteem -- choose a more glamorous plan than one involving adult diapers.When the announcement came in from the US Attorney's Office headlined that a local company owner had been "INDICTED IN ADULT DIAPER FRAUD CASE," we couldn't wait to open the e-mail.Had some nefarious con man sold adult diapers that turned out to actually not be absorbent? (We can see Tom Hanks in the SNL's "Sabra Price is Right" skit: "Yes, yes, it

  February 13, 2009

• Trawling in Deep Water

  June 19, 1997

• Snitch Vs. Snitch

  August 28, 1997

• Bad Deal

  December 4, 1997

• The Devil, You Say?

  February 25, 1999

• Customs Agent Offers Wide Variety Of Services: Will Smuggle Cocaine, Aliens

  You can't specialize in a market like this; you've got to be a jack-of-all-trades to keep your head above water.There are some Customs & Border Protection inspectors out there who focus strictly on taking bribes to bring illegal aliens into the country. There are others who concentrate strictly on taking bribes to sneak drugs in.But Sergio Hernandez of Brownsville, he's a legend. He's like the Michael Keaton character in the classic Night Shift who pulls out a tape recorder to save his lates

  April 14, 2009

• Gangsters in Bacliff

  September 11, 2008

• The Further Adventures of King Con

  Yet again, Steven Russell bluffed his way out of prison. And yet again, he got caught.

  May 14, 1998

• More Payne for the IRS

  Prolonged agency abuses bring a Houston attorney $1.5 million

  March 25, 1999

• Back from Iraq with Plenty of Problems

  January 17, 2008

• Swift Meatpacking Plant and Illegal Immigrants

  April 5, 2007

• U.S. informants take part in murder and drug running in Mexico

  March 8, 2007

• A Gap in Coverage

  Critics of GoldStar ambulance service say it's late to emergencies, cares for profits over patients, and doctors its books. But without it, there's nothing.

  July 14, 2005

• Running Over the Defense?

  Clara Harris argues that Justice Nuchia, the ex-chief of police, has never met a conviction he didn't like

  October 7, 2004

• Collateral Damaged

  When Tom Cruise plays the bad guy, the results aren't good

  August 5, 2004

• The Last Word

  They've fought for justice for nine years, but time is running out

  July 8, 2004

• Turkeys of the Year

  November 27, 2003

• Pens and Needles

  Federal turf fights and deals mark the legacy of a union bribery case

  November 6, 2003

• Taking Credit

  A lawyer gets charged up -- really -- over a convict's financial plight

  November 23, 2000

• Borderline

  Some former associates aren't accepting the strange death in Mexico of eccentric attorney Roy Beene

  January 6, 2000

• Bishop's Endgame

  An early GOP force could be savoring party triumphs -- from prison

  December 2, 1999

• La Migra Arrests A Whole Bunch Of Gang Members

  The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency -- ICE to illegals and legals alike -- has announced the results of a big round-up of gang members in Houston, Beaumont and Corpus Christi who are undocumented aliens."Operation Community Shield" resulted in the arrests of 116 gang members and associates, ICE spokesman Gary Palmore says."The gang members taken into custody during the enforcement action are linked to at least 14 street gangs, including: Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), Surenos Trece, Aryan

  June 30, 2009

• Saudi National Charged With Not Telling Feds He Intended To Make A Virtual Prisoner Of His Maid

  A citizen of Saudi Arabia has been charged by the feds here for lying to obtain a visa for an employee.What's so bad about that? Well, the lie was that he told visa officials he was bringing the woman over here to be domestic help at $1,300 a month at eight hours a day six days a week, but instead, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office:  During the six years the Indonesian national worked for [Mohammed] Al-Zehairi, the complaint alleges she worked far more than the agreed upon eight hours

  July 1, 2009

• Perhaps The Internet-Cafe Trend In Nederland Was Overstated

  ​Just as we were trying to figure out why there were internet cafes in Nederland and Port Arthur, we find out that the places were actually fronts for illegal gambling, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The department announced yesterday that six people were charged with running the gambling rooms and laundering money. Starting in April 2007, the Justice Department investigated Dolphin Internet in Port Arthur and the Nederland Internet Cafe. The businesses, along with another place

  August 7, 2009

• Ripping Off FEMA And Oprah: Not A Good Idea

  ​It's one thing to defraud FEMA in the wake of a hurricane. It's another to mess with Oprah.That's the sad, heavy lesson learned by four people named in indictments unsealed this morning by the U.S. Attorney's office. They're charged with, as the feds put it, "wrongfully obtaining rental assistance from FEMA after having purchased new, fully-furnished homes that were financed by Oprah Winfrey's 'Oprah's Angel Network.'" (Hey, nice plug and product-placement for the Big O.)Darlene McGruder Pool

  August 19, 2009

• TDCJ Guard Gets Two Years For Lying About Kicking Inmate In The Head

  ​A TDCJ guard who had been found guilty of filing a false "use of force" report was sentenced today to what no doubt will be two very uncomfortable years in a federal prison. (Or maybe guards take care of their own? We don't wanna know.)Eugene Morris, 41, had kicked an inmate in the head repeatedly after the prisoner used a racial slur against a guard; Morris then reported he had simply used a bear-hug on the inmate and forced him to the floor after getting head-butted.The details are a little

  August 26, 2009

• Spy Story

  September 17, 2009