Federal and International

RPM International Inc. and Tremco Inc. Pay Nearly $61 Million for Failing to Provide Government Discounts Provided to Others

Companies Allegedly Submitted False Claims Under Defectively-priced Roofing Contracts Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 28, 2013.  Ohio-based RPM International Inc. and its subsidiary, Tremco Inc., have paid $60.9 million to resolve allegations that Tremco filed false claims in connection with two multiple award schedule (MAS) contracts with the General Services Administration (GSA) for[Read More…]

Pennsylvania Man Pleads Guilty in Massachusetts to Hacking into Multiple Computer Networks

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 27, 2013. A Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty today to charges stemming from his participation in a scheme to hack into computer networks and sell access to those networks. The guilty plea was announced by Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S.[Read More…]

MRI Diagnostic Testing Company, Imagimed LLC, and Its Former Owners and Chief Radiologist to Pay $3.57 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 27, 2013. New York-based Imagimed LLC, the company’s former owners, William B. Wolf III and Dr. Timothy J. Greenan, and the company’s former chief radiologist, Dr. Steven Winter, will pay $3.57 million to resolve allegations that they submitted to federal healthcare programs false claims for magnetic resonance imaging[Read More…]

Three Missourians Sentenced for Defrauding Consumers Seeking Immigration Services

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 27, 2013. Three defendants who previously pleaded guilty in connection with an immigration services fraud scheme were sentenced in federal court, the Justice Department announced today.  The three defendants formerly worked at Immigration Forms and Publications (IFP), a Sedalia, Mo., company that falsely represented to consumers that IFP[Read More…]

Laboratory Operator Sentenced to 40 Months for Fabricating Industrial Wastewater Results

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 27, 2013. Tennie White, the owner and operator of an environmental laboratory located in Jackson, Miss., was sentenced in federal court late yesterday day to 40 months in prison in connection with her conviction for faking laboratory testing results and lying to federal investigators, announced Gregory K. Davis,[Read More…]

Former Utah Chiropractor Sentenced to Prison for Tax Evasion

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 26, 2013.  The Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that today Douglas R. Madsen, a former chiropractor from Ephraim, Utah, was sentenced by the U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups to 33 months in prison and resitutition of over $500,000 following a conviction for attempted evasion[Read More…]

Man Who Threatened Synagogue in Fargo, North Dakota, Charged with Civil Rights Violation

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 26, 2013.  Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Jocelyn Samuels and U.S. Attorney for the District of North Dakota Timothy Q. Purdon announced that Dominique Jason Flanigan was arraigned today on civil rights and threats charges. Flanigan was indicted under seal by a grand jury[Read More…]

FBI: Two Northeast Indiana Area Men Charged with Murder

Hammond, IN-(ENEWSPF)- United States Attorney David Capp announced that Oscar Cosme, 40, of East Chicago, Indiana, and Kiontay Pennington, 34, of Gary, Indiana, were charged by complaint with allegedly committing murder resulting from the use and carrying of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime and aiding and abetting the[Read More…]

FBI: Arlington Heights Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison on Conviction of Possessing, Transporting Child Pornography

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A man who had built a vast child pornography collection on his home computer was sentenced Friday to 15 years in federal prison for possessing and transporting child pornography. The defendant, Andrew Modjewski, 25, was charged in 2010 in a three-count indictment after a search warrant executed on[Read More…]

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