Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 30, 2013. The owner and operator of a durable medical equipment (DME) supply company was sentenced today to serve 24 months in prison for conspiring to submit nearly $1 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare.  Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; U.S.[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 30, 2013. A former senior executive of a French power and transportation company has been charged in a second superseding indictment for his alleged participation in a scheme to pay bribes to foreign government officials. Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Acting[Read More…]

Bank, with Assistance of Liechtenstein Government, Produced Account Files of More Than 200 Non-compliant U.s. Taxpayers Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 30, 2013.  Kathryn Keneally, the Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division of the Department of Justice, Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and Richard Weber,[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 30, 2013.  A federal judge has found in favor of the Federal Trade Commission in its case against an online operation that illegally debited consumers’ bank accounts when they visited the defendants’ websites seeking payday loans.  The FTC will seek a court order requiring the defendants to return[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 29, 2013. The Department of Justice announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against Dr. Hal Brown and Primary Care of the Treasure Coast of Vero Beach, Fla. (PCTC), alleging that the doctor and the medical practice violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by discriminating against Susan[Read More…]

Allegedly Used Guns, Threats and Violence to Force the Victims to Engage in Prostitution Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 29, 2013.  A federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment charging Jean Claude Roy, aka “Dredd the Don,” and “Dreddy,” age 31, of Germantown, Md., and Brittney Creason, aka“Kitty Amor,” age 19, of[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- During the past 72 hours, the FBI; its local, state, and federal law enforcement partners; and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) conducted Operation Cross Country VII, a three-day enforcement action to address commercial child sex trafficking throughout the United States. The operation included enforcement[Read More…]

Ten Lawsuits Initiated Pursuant to Tax Treaty Between United States and Norway; Seven Petitions Granted, Three Petitions Remain Pending Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 29, 2013.  The Justice Department announced that federal courts in Minnesota, Texas, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Virginia and California have entered orders over the past week authorizing the Internal Revenue Service[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- The Justice Department announced July 25 that Tyree Davis Sr. of Flossmoor, Illinois, was arrested on an eight-count indictment charging him with obstruction of justice and filing fraudulent multi-billion-dollar liens against government employees. The indictment was returned on July 24, 2013, by a federal grand jury in Chicago.[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Three federal grand jury indictments were unsealed July 24 charging a total of nine defendants with allegedly collecting debts through the use of intimidation, fear, and, in one instance, physical violence. The indictments, which were returned Tuesday, were unsealed July 24 following arrests made by special agents of[Read More…]