NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Dec. 18 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, John H. Durham, issued the following news release on Dec. 17: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL GRAMINS, 38, of North Carolina, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny to two years of probation, the first six months of which Gramins must spend in home confinement, for defrauding mortgage-backed securities customers of Nomura Sec  more