Page 4 THE EVERETT ADVOCATE – Friday, July 12, 2019 We accept: MasterCard *Visa * & Discover 2.45 Lawrence A. Simeone Jr. * Corporate Litigation $ 3.45 GALLON * Criminal/Civil * MCAD * Zoning/Land Court * Wetlands Litigation * Workmen’s Compensation * Landlord/Tenant Litigation Attorney-at-Law ~ Since 1989 ~ * Real Estate Law * Construction Litigation * Tax Lein * Personal Injury * Bankruptcy * Wrongful Death * Zoning/Permitting Litigation 300 Broadway, Suite 1, Revere * 781-286-1560 Lsimeonejr@simeonelaw.net dine drink gather enjoy Friday, July 12 at 9 PM BACK TO THE 80'S Saturday, July 13 at 9 PM WILDFIRE Friday, July 19 at 9 PM THIRD MAN IN Saturday, July 20 at 9 PM Led Zeppelin Tribute Show IN THE LIGHT w/ Guests: CHARING CROSS Friday, July 26 at 8:30 PM NO SHOES NATION MS-13 member sentenced for racketeering conspiracy T he following information is from the U. S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts. An MS-13 member was senKenny Chesney Tribute Show Coming September 14th Boston's legendary.. THE STOMPERS Advance Tickets Now on Sale at: www.breakawaydanvers.com 221 Newbury Street, Danvers For Tickets call (978) 774-7270 or www.breakawaydanvers.com tenced on Tuesday in federal court in Boston to racketeering conspiracy. Nelson Cruz Rodriguez Cartagena, a/k/a “Inquieto,” 25, a Salvadoran national illegally residing in Everett, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge William G. Young to 17 years in prison and three years of supervised release. Rodriguez will be subject to deportation proceedings upon completion of his sentence. In April 2019, Rodriguez pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to conduct enterprise affairs through a pattern of racketeering activity, commonly referred to as RICO conspiracy. Rodriguez was arrested in Everett after law enforcement determined that he had reentered the United States after having been deported in 2016. Rodriguez is a full member, or “homeboy,” in MS-13’s Everett Locos Salvatrucha (ELS) clique. On recorded prison calls with a detained ELS clique leader, Rodriguez discussed the following: buying guns for the ELS clique, maintaining and supervising the clique’s marijuana-trafficking business, collecting dues from clique members, sending money to MS-13 leaders in El Salvador due on the 13th of each month and reporting on the clique’s day-to-day racketeering activities. When the ELS clique leader began to suspect that a member of the clique had cooperated with law enforcement leading to his arrest, he enlisted Rodriguez’s help to ferret out the informant. Rodriguez provided the true names of two young ELS clique members, and the leader concluded that one of them, Jose Aguilar Villanueva, a/k/a “Fantasma,” was the clique member responsible for his arrest. Once ELS identified (incorrectly) Villanueva as an informant, members of ELS, including Rodriguez, met at the clique’s “destroyer house” – a residence where clique members stored knives, machetes, marijuana and money – to discuss gang business and to plan the murder of Villanueva. Ultimately, on the night of July 5, 2015, two young ELS probationary members, or “chequeos,” lured Villanueva into a park in Lawrence and stabbed him to death. Villanueva was 16 years old. On January 2, 2016, three young ELS clique members murdered 19-year-old Omar Reyes, an associate of the rival gang, 18th Street, by shooting him in the head under a bridge in Everett. Immediate100 Gal. Min. 24 Hr. Service 781-286-2602 Price Subject to Change without notice Two Everett residents charged with bank fraud conspiracy T he following information is from the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts. Three Massachusetts men were charged on Tuesday in federal court in Boston in connection with schemes to use false identification documents to obtain funds from bank customers’ accounts. Lindsley J. Georges, 26, and Dave Guillaume, 23, both of Everett, and Fesnel Lafortune, 30, of Milton, were each charged with one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud. The defendants were arrested and made an initial appearance in federal court in Boston. According to the complaint charging Georges and Guillaume, in December 2017 and January 2018, two unindicted coconspirators obtained four bank checks totaling nearly $800,000 from two Santander Bank customers’ accounts. Two other coconspirators obtained two bank checks totaling more than $330,000 from a TD Bank customer’s account, by representing that they were the customers. It is alleged that Georges deposited two of the fraudulently obtained Santander Bank checks into a business bank account he controlled; thereafter, he withdrew about $200,000 in six cash withdrawals at six different bank branch offices. Allegedly, Guillaume deposited one of the fraudulently obtained Santander Bank checks to a business bank account he had opened using a fake name. It is further alleged that Guillaume thereafter withdrew about $46,000 in cash in five transactions at four different bank branches. Allegedly, Georges and Guillaume also each deposited one of the fraudulently obtained TD Bank checks to a business bank account that Guillaume had opened using a fake name and driver’s license. According to the complaint charging Lafortune, in April 2017, another unindicted co-conspirator obtained two bank checks totaling more than $340,000 from a Santander Bank customer’s account, using a fraudulent passport and credit card in the customer’s name. Lafortune deposited one of the checks in the amount of $175,500 to a business bank account he had opened using a false name, date of birth and Social Security number. Allegedly, within days of depositing the check Lafortune withdrew nearly $30,000 in cash in three transactions at three different bank branches. The charge of conspiracy to commit bank fraud carries a sentence of no greater than 30 years in prison, up to five years of supervised release and a fine of up to $1 million. Sentences are imposed by a federal district court judge based on the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors. On Tuesday the case announcement was made by United States Attorney Andrew E. Lelling; Joseph R. Bonavolonta, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Boston Field Office; and Joseph W. Cronin, Inspector in Charge of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Leslie A. Wright and Mark J. Balthazard of Lelling’s Securities and Financial Fraud Unit are prosecuting the cases. ly after the murder, the ELS clique members called Rodriguez, who called another ELS homeboy to report the murder. Rodriguez then helped the three ELS clique members hide the murder weapon from the police. The sentencing announcement was made by United States Attorney Andrew E. Lelling; Joseph R. Bonavolonta, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Boston Field Division; Peter C. Fitzhugh, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations in Boston; Colonel Kerry A. Gilpin, Superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police; Commissioner Carol Mici of the Massachusetts Department of Correction; Essex County Sheriff Kevin F. Coppinger; Suffolk County Sheriff Steven W. Thompkins; Suffolk County District Attorney Rachel Rollins; Middlesex County District Attorney Marian T. Ryan; Essex County District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett; Boston Police Commissioner William Gross; Chelsea Police Chief Brian A. Kyes; Everett Police Chief Steven A. Mazzie; Lynn Police Chief Michael Mageary; Revere Police Chief James Guido; and Somerville Police Chief David Fallon. The U.S. Marshals Service for the District of Massachusetts provided crucial assistance with the case.
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