Susan Finch at the Times Picayune has the breaking story. Momma and Pappa Perdigao’s personal residences now hang in the balance:
A former Adams and Reese law partner facing trial Dec. 1 for allegedly stealing $30 million from his ex employer must stay in jail until then because he has violated several terms of the hefty bond that his parents underwrote to allow him to remain free, a federal magistrate ruled today.
Magistrate Louis Moore revoked Jamie Perdigao’s $2 million bond, half secured by his mother’s home and half by his father’s residence, after hearing from the FBI agent who arrested Perdigao Oct. 16 on charges of gaining unauthorized access to Adams & Reese and downloading many sensitive documents.
Agent Leonard Carolla said computers seized from Perdigao after his arrest, including a couple owned by Adams & Reese, turned up evidence that he’d been at the hacking since his initial arrest in September 2004.
Moore also learned from the agent that Perdigao had failed to tell federal authorities that he was arrested Feb. 27 by the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office for shoplifting at a Wal Mart in Covington. Perdigao is also set for trial in December on that charge.
Agent James Lamy of the federal Pretrial Services Office told Moore he discovered only recently that despite weekly communications with the defendant and monthly meetings, Perdigao hadn’t been truthful with him about his place of residence. Lamy found out only after Perdigao’s recent arrest that the defendant had been staying a good part of the time at his girlfriend’s home, he said.
Moore said it will now be up to US. District Judge Eldon Fallon to decide whether to require Perdigao’s parents to forfeit the $2 million they supplied for their son’s appearance bond.
Perdigao was previously charged in a 59-count indictment in 2007 by a federal grand jury for mail fraud, bank fraud, tax evasion, filing false tax returns, money laundering, and transportation of stolen funds.
If convicted on all charges in the indictment, Perdigao faces more than 1,000 years in prison, substantial fines and criminal forfeiture, including the $30 million he’s accused of siphoning from the firm.
If convicted on the new computer hacking charges, he faces a maximum term of imprisonment of five (5) years.