Press Release
For Immediate Release
April 30, 2010
Washington D.C.
FBI National Press Office
(202) 324-3691

FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending April 30, 2010

New York: U.S. Citizen Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Provide Material Support to al Qaeda

Syed Hashmi pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide material support to al Qaeda. Hashmi was arrested on June 6, 2006 at Heathrow Airport in London, shortly before he was to board a flight to Pakistan. He was later extradited to the United States. Hashmi is the first individual to be extradited from the United Kingdom to the United States on terrorism charges. Full Story

Miami: Former COO of Law Firm Charged with Money Laundering Conspiracy

Debra Villegas, formerly the chief operating officer of the Ft. Lauderdale law firm of Rothstein, Rosenfeldt & Adler, was charged with a money laundering conspiracy in connection with the operation of a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme. Full Story

Washington Field: Former Head of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel Pleads Guilty to Criminal Contempt of Congress

Scott J. Bloch, the former head of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, pleaded guilty to criminal contempt of Congress for willfully and unlawfully withholding pertinent information from a House committee investigating his decision to have several government computers wiped. Full Story

Sacramento: Man Sentenced to Prison for Sending Anthrax Hoax Letters

Marc M. Keyser was sentenced to 51 months in prison for of three counts of committing an anthrax hoax and two counts of mailing threatening communications. Keyser mailed over 100 packages that contained a CD with excerpts of a new book on terrorism that was labeled in large print “Anthrax Shock and Awe Terrorâ€