Former Spanish transport minister and Pedro Sanchez ally jailed for 24 years over Covid face mask corruption scandal

Spain’s Supreme Court sentences former Socialist minister Ábalos to 24 years behind bars

Two aides to the disgraced official also received prison sentences over corruption during the Covid pandemic. The ruling increases the pressure on the government of Pedro Sánchez, which is dealing with several high-profile probes

Chilean court convicts three men in 1976 Washington DC car bomb attack

The three who were convicted were agents of Augusto Pinochet’s feared secret police which hunted down opponents at home and abroadFifty years after Gen Augusto Pinochet’s secret police detonated a car bomb in the heart of Washington DC, killing Orlando Letelier, a former Chilean minister and ambassador to the US, and his American colleague Ronni Karpen Moffitt, a Santiago court has convicted three former agents of Moffitt’s murder.Judge Paola Plaza, a special minister for human rights in Chile, sentenced Pedro Espinoza, José Zara, and Raúl Iturriaga to 15 years in prison for their roles in the killing of Moffitt, 25. Continue reading...

Illegal immigrant gets eight year prison sentence for $89 million payroll tax fraud scheme

The Department of Justice announced on Thursday that Mario Flores, an illegal immigrant from Honduras, was sentenced to eight years in prison for fraudulently cashing 89 million in a payroll scheme between 2015 and 2022, which involved employing other illegal immigrants working in the United States. Flores also filed false tax documents with the Internal []

Illegal immigrant in US sentenced to 8 years for helping businesses hire undocumented workers

Mario Flores, a national from Honduras, has been sentenced to eight years in prison due to his involvement in a large-scale payroll tax fraud operation. He facilitated businesses in dodging taxes and employing undocumented workers via an illicit cash system, orchestrating millions in fraudulent transactions. Notably, his girlfriend received a more severe sentence, underscoring the significant ties between illegal immigration and underground markets that cost the US government substantial amounts.

Purported Tren de Aragua member avoids prison after pleading guilty to selling rifles to undercover ATF agents – CWB Chicago

A Venezuelan man whom prosecutors said was a suspected member of the Tren de Aragua street gang received an 18-month sentence after pleading guilty to selling firearms last summer to undercover ATF agents in Chicago, court records show. But Jose Vasquez Hernandez, 31, did not spend any time in an actual prison once the state applied its standard 50 percent sentence reduction and gave him credit for time already served in the Cook County Jail.