The Collar

The Perp Walk

By Luke Mullins

Posted: May 12, 2008

Department of Justice: "Passaic Mayor Samuel 'Sammy' Rivera pleaded guilty today to attempted extortion, admitting that he accepted a bribe from a government cooperating witness who was representing an undercover insurance brokerage company in return for his official assistance in steering public contracts to the undercover company."

DOJ: "A Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer has been arrested and charged for accepting bribes for fraudulently making and delivering an official travel document."

DOJ: "[Oklahoma] City Woman Pleads Guilty to HIPPA Violation for Disclosing Patient Information Used to Commit Identity Theft."

DOJ: "A federal grand jury [in Cincinnati] indicted Adrian D. Mitchell, age 35, charging him with mail fraud, wire fraud, and bank fraud in connection with a real estate related business he operated."

SEC: "The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged three Fort Lauderdale-area medical doctors with illegal insider trading, alleging that they reaped a combined total of more than a half-million dollars in profits from their illicit scheme."

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Luke Mullins is an associate editor at U.S. News, covering banking, real estate, and white-collar crime. He came to the magazine from the American Banker, a financial services daily newspaper, after a stint in the Peace Corps in West Africa and 18 months coaching baseball in the Dominican Republic. Mullins earned a master's degree in journalism from Syracuse University in 2005 and now lives in Washington, D.C., where he grew up. He has written about white-collar criminals for the American magazine, and his work was included in 20 Something Essays by 20 Something Writers: The Best New Voices of 2006, a Random House anthology that appeared on the Boston Globe's bestseller list.

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