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Attorneys for the Gutheinz Law Firm have been involved in a number of high profile cases as private attorneys, and with the Government.  Here are a few stories that have figured prominently in the news.

From 1992 until 1996 Joe Gutheinz, while a Senior Special Agent with NASA’s Office of Inspector General, led a nine-agency Federal task force investigation that resulted in the largest count indictment and conviction in NASA history. This investigation, known as the Omniplan case, was responsible for the indictment and conviction of 5 companies, the closure of seven companies, the conviction of several individuals to include Omniplan’s owner, Ralph Montijo, Jr. on 179 felonies, and the case resulted in a multi-million dollar settlement. The following New York Times story offers a glimpse into the investigation:  http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/17/us/businessman-is-sentenced-for-bilking-space-agency.html

In 1998, Joseph Gutheinz while serving as a Senior Special Agent with NASA’s Office of Investigation, investigated and arrested Jerry Alan Whittredge, the so called Great Astronaut Impersonator , who talked his way into NASA Mission Control during a space mission and received sensitive propulsion information on the space shuttle:http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/1998/06/04/1998-06-04_a_high-flying_phony_pulls_1_.html

In 1998, Joseph Gutheinz, while serving as a Senior Special Agent with NASA’s Office of Inspector General, led and went undercover in Operation Lunar Eclipse, where for the first time a moon rock brought back to Earth was recovered in an undercover sting operation:  http://www.geotimes.org/nov04/trends.html

From 1999 to 2000 Joseph Gutheinz, while serving as a Senior Special Agent for NASA’s Office of Inspector General, led a multi-agency task force investigation of Lockheed Martin, which resulted in a multi-million dollar recovery. Please see:  http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=11828

In 2010, Joseph Gutheinz, a criminal justice graduate level college instructor guided his students in their worldwide hunt for missing and stolen Apollo era moon rocks. His students found that Colorado's, West Virginia's and Missouri's Goodwill Moon Rocks were missing, and each moon rocks was subsequently found to have been innocently taken by former Governors. Colorado's Apollo 17 Goodwill Moon Rock was taken by former Governor John Vanderhoof, Please see:  http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_15207033 . West Virginia's Apollo 17 Goodwill Moon Rock was taken by former West Virginia Governor Arch Moore; please see the following Fox News video: http://video.foxnews.com/v/4237748/missing-moon-rocks . Missouri's Apollo 17 Goodwill Moon Rock was taken by former Governor Kit Bond, please see: http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2010/12/23/missing-moon-rock-apollo-17-back-missouri/ .

In March 2011, a 10-page story written by Joe Gutheinz was published in Earth Magazine, its title is A Memoir: A Decade-Plus of Tracking Lunar Larceny. Here is a link to a press release about his story:http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-02/agi-ead022211.php