So far that's included intercepting electronic communications, immigration fraud, and even grooming young women as potential sex partners for Raniere but not the plot to jail his ex girlfriends in Mexico.
He pleaded guilty to sending threatening communications and to mail fraud and wire fraud.
They include the obstruction-of-justice case against Martha Stewart (for which jury selection began last week); the corporate theft case next month against members of the Rigas family, the founders of Adelphia Communications; and the securities fraud case that also begins next month against Scott D. Sullivan, the former chief financial officer of WorldCom.
The online eyeglasses seller who terrified customers in the hopes of creating buzz about his Web site, and raising its profile in Google searches, pleaded guilty on Thursday to two counts of sending threatening communications, one count of mail fraud and one count of wire fraud.
"The way you get more hunting dogs showing up is you feed them," said Patrick Burns, communications director at Taxpayers Against Fraud, the legal industry group that sponsored the conference.
Rules vary regarding communications, relationships, transactions, taxes, contracts, fraud and expectations.
[Pat Burns, communications director at Taxpayers Against Fraud] put me in contact with John Wilke, senior investigative reporter for the Wall Street Journal's Washington bureau.
The cruder kinds of electoral fraud, relying on poor communications between the capital and the boondocks, are now much harder.
Vitaly Borker, 36, who owned and operated DecorMyEyes from his home in Sheepshead Bay, pleaded guilty in May 2011 to charges of fraud and sending threatening communications.
The SEC has also stated that it considers Twitter and Facebook communications just as ripe for securities fraud as e-mail and phone calls.
