Murder USA: PG Police charge two in murder of fraudster Osama El-Atari; buffaloed banks of millions

UPPER MARLBORO, MD. — A Jordanian resident of Loudoun County, Va., who confessed that he swindled area banks out of more than $70 million in 2010, turned up murdered in PG County. PG County is a pretty good place to dump a bullet-ridden corpse due to all the killings among the drug-dealing population of killers who haunt the streets, alleys and shopping districts of that beleaguered suburb of Washington, D.C.

Fraud: Baltimore transit chief admits he stuffed cash bribes in his pocket while cutting deals for contractors with the city

Barry Stephen Robinson took a $20,000 bribe to cancel a $60,000 debt owed to Baltimore City, and a $70,000 bribe to allow the theft of city property worth $250,000,” said U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein. “This sort of corruption can occur when dishonest people are trusted to handle valuable government property.”

Insurance scam netted Jeffrey Cohen $100 million, says U. S. Attorney

BALTIMORE, MD —A federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment charging Jeffrey Brian Cohen, age 39, of Reisterstown, Maryland, with wire fraud and money laundering in addition to the charges of making false statements to an insurance regulator that were included in the original indictment. The superseding indictment was returned on September 16, 2014.