Tag: Connecticut
Mario Rene Garcia Martinez, Production of Child Pornography, Connecticut 2024
⏱ 2 min read Mario Rene Garcia Martinez, a 41-year-old Guatemalan national, pleaded guilty to recording his sexual abuse of a sleeping child in Connecticut. The abuse occurred on two occasions in February 2024, when Garcia Martinez used his smartphone to take images and videos of himself molesting a prepubescent minor female while she was…
Marisol Rodriguez, Medicaid Fraud, Connecticut 2023
⏱ 2 min read Marisol Rodriguez, a 49-year-old Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN), defrauded Connecticut’s Medicaid program by submitting fraudulent claims for medication management services that were never provided. The scheme, which took place in Connecticut, involved Rodriguez billing Medicaid for services she never rendered, including to patients who had stopped seeing her, were hospitalized,…
Freepoint Trader, Insider Trading Fraud, Connecticut 2023
Stamford, Connecticut – On December 14, 2023, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed and settled charges of misappropriation-based fraud against a trader connected to Freepoint Commodities LLC. The fraudulent activity, spanning from 2012 to 2018, involved the illicit acquisition of confidential information from a South American state-owned enterprise (SOE) concerning the buying and selling…
Michael Staryk, Options Fraud, Connecticut 2024
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Michael Frederick Staryk of Florida has been charged with options fraud by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in a civil enforcement action filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut on October 1, 2024. The CFTC alleges that from at least 2021 through 2022, Staryk, operating under the…
Andre Flotron, Spoofing, Connecticut 2019
Andre Flotron, a former precious metals trader for UBS AG, has been ordered to pay $100,000 and faces a one-year trading ban after being found guilty of spoofing and market manipulation, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced February 7, 2019. The judgment, issued by Judge Vanessa Bryant of the U.S. District Court for the…
Jose Orjuela, Conspiracy to Distribute Narcotics, Connecticut 2025
⏱ 2 min read Jose Orjuela, aka ‘Hov’, a 37-year-old Norwalk resident, was the leader of a large-scale drug trafficking organization that distributed fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine in the Norwalk area. In May 2023, the DEA’s Bridgeport High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force and Norwalk Police Department launched an investigation, which included wiretaps and…
John O’Rourke, Unlawful Reentry, New York 2024
⏱ 2 min read A 27-year-old British citizen, John O’Rourke, also known as John Casey, has pleaded guilty to unlawfully reentering the US after being deported. O’Rourke, who has used multiple aliases, was apprehended by US Border Patrol near the Canadian border in New York on October 7, 2024, and removed to Canada. However, he…
Andre Flotron, Spoofing, Connecticut 2018
Andre Flotron, a Swiss national, has been charged with spoofing in the precious metals futures markets, according to a complaint filed by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut on January 29, 2018. The CFTC alleges that from approximately August 2008 through November 2013, while…
Governor Ned Lamont, Challenging Federal Law Enforcement, Connecticut 2024
Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont and Attorney General William Tong are among those being sued by the federal government for attempting to regulate federal law enforcement officers through the so-called “Act Concerning Democracy and Government Accountability,” also known as Senate Bill 397. According to the lawsuit, the law prohibits federal officers from wearing facial coverings in…
Bryan Joyce, Assault Rifle Trafficking, Connecticut 2022
⏱ 3 min read A brazen guns-for-weed dealer bit the dust in a Bridgeport courtroom when Bryan Joyce, 40, of Southington, was slapped with a 90-month sentence for peddling assault rifles and marijuana to undercover cops. According to court records, Joyce, a convicted felon with a penchant for breaking the law, started selling privately made…
