Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 6, 2013.  The Federal Trade Commission has approved final orders settling charges that retailers Neiman Marcus, DrJays.com and Eminent Inc. sold products containing real fur when they were advertised as containing “faux” fur, and that they did not identify the animal that produced the fur.  Neiman Marcus also[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 5, 2013.  Christian Fernando Borda, a major narcotics trafficker aligned with paramilitary groups in Colombia, was sentenced today to serve 25 years in prison for conspiring to import ton-quantities of cocaine into the United States, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division[Read More…]

Collected More Than $1.2 Million from More Than 800 Distressed Homeowners Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 5, 2013.  Glen Alan Ward, 48, a former Los Angeles resident who fled to Canada and was a federal fugitive for 12 years, was sentenced today to serve 132 months in prison for aggravated identity theft and[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 5, 2013. The Justice Department announced today the filing of a lawsuit with the Executive Office of Immigration Review’s Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer (OCAHO), against Autobuses Ejecutivos LLC, d/b/a Omnibus Express, a bus company based in Houston.  The complaint alleges Omnibus Express violated the Immigration[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Fourteen defendants are facing state or federal narcotics and/or firearms charges that, again, link drugs and illegal gun possession in Chicago. An investigation led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, together with the Chicago Police Department and other state and federal law enforcement agencies, has resulted in federal[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 2, 2013. Two individuals, Donald Torriero and Julius DeSimone, were sentenced in federal court in Utica, N.Y., for illegally dumping thousands of tons of asbestos-contaminated construction debris on a 28-acre piece of property on the Mohawk River in upstate New York, the Justice Department announced. U.S. District Judge[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 1, 2013. The Justice Department announced today that the city of St. Peters, Mo. will pay $80,000 and make changes to its zoning laws to settle a lawsuit alleging that the city violated the federal Fair Housing Act (FHA) and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 1, 2013. Barren County, Ky., Sheriff Christopher Brian Eaton, 42, of Glasgow, Ky., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Joseph H. McKinley Jr. to serve an 18-month prison term followed by two years of supervised release, after a jury convicted him on May 9, 2013, of two[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 1, 2013.  Paul S. Kruse, 60, of Jacksonville, Fla., was sentenced late yesterday to serve 30 years in prison for wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy, attempting to murder a government witness and murder-for-hire, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Acting[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A former vice president of a company that was based in west suburban Downers Grove pleaded guilty on July 31 to engaging in a fraudulent invoicing scheme in which he obtained more than 100 company checks totaling more than $3.9 million and stole the money for himself. The[Read More…]