Los Angeles area Attorney indicted for Federal Grand Jury Witness Tampering
Attorney Alfred Nash Villalobos, 44 of West Hills, was arrested on August 4th, 2009 after promising to tamper with a federal grand jury investigation involving immigration fraud and accepting $53,500 as part payment. As a representative of one of the purported workers, Villalobos agreed to instruct his client to provide false testimony, to the Assistant United States Attorney and the grand jury, that would benefit the subject of the alleged immigration fraud in return for $107,000 in cash.
Villalobos accepted the $53,500 bribe, at a Century City law firm, from an attorney cooperating with the FBI. According to the FBI, the second attorney, identified in court papers as CW2, made consensual recordings of his conversations with Villalobos in which Villalobos requested $107,000 in cash, plus charitable donation receipts from the social service organization where the immigrants were allegedly employed.
On August 21, 2009, Villalobos was indicted on charges of endeavoring to obstruct a grand jury investigation and interfering with interstate commerce by extortion and will be arraigned on August 31st. The charge of obstruction of grand jury proceedings carries a statutory maximum sentence of 10 years and the charge of extortion by blackmail carries a statutory maximum of 20 years in federal prison.
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