Thursday, February 7, 2013
Lauren Jeannette Diggs faces up to five years in prison.
A Rockville woman pleaded guilty in federal court last week to conspiring to falsify results of court-ordered drug tests in exchange for bribes and then lying about it to a federal grand jury. Lauren Jeannette Diggs, 50, pleaded guilty Jan. 31 in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt to conspiracy to seek and accept a bribe and making false statements to the grand jury, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Baltimore. Diggs, who was arrested Oct. 23, faces up to five years in prison. Her sentencing hearing is scheduled for April 22 in front of Chief U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow. Her co-conspirator, Christopher Womack, 43, of Forestville, pleaded guilty to bribery on July 26 and was sentenced Monday to three …
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
John Raley, 43, pleads guilty to sending images through a social networking website.
A Rockville man was sentenced Monday in federal court in Greenbelt to seven years in prison for possessing and distributing child pornography, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Baltimore said in a news release. John Raley, 43, pleaded guilty to sending 187 images of child pornography from his home and office to 23 groups on a social networking site, of which he was a member, the release said. The images were sent on multiple occasions, including in August, 2009 and December, 2009, prosecutors said. Federal law enforcement executed a search warrant for Raley’s home and former workplace on Jan. 13, 2011, seizing computers and other digital media containing more than 200,000 images and 4,082 videos “depicting children engaged in sexually …
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Federal prosecutors: Lauren Jeannette Diggs tampered with a witness and lied to a grand jury.
A Rockville woman was indicted Monday on charges that she falsified drug test results in exchange for bribes and later lied to a grand jury about it, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Baltimore. Lauren Jeannette Diggs, 50, is charged with conspiracy to seek and accept a bribe, witness tampering, and making false statements to the grand jury. Federal prosecutors announced the indictment after Diggs’ arrest Tuesday. “The indictment charges that Lauren Jeannette Diggs took bribes to falsify drug tests of federal criminal defendants, then committed perjury before the grand jury investigating the allegations,” U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein said in a news release. “Providing false information to courts and grand juries undermines …
