Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 18, 2013. A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer, his girlfriend, his nephew and two of their associates were sentenced today in federal court for their participation in bribery and alien smuggling activities along the U.S./Mexico border spanning approximately two years, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General[Read More…]

Lg Chem Ltd. Agrees to Plead Guilty to Price-fixing Conspiracy Involving Battery Cells, First Charges Filed in Battery Cell Investigation Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 18, 2013.  Panasonic Corp. and its subsidiary, SANYO Electric Co. Ltd., have agreed to plead guilty and to pay a total of $56.5 million in criminal fines for[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 18, 2013.  The Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today that Harry Neuhoff, a resident of Brooklyn, N.Y., has pleaded guilty to tax evasion. According to documents filed with the court, Neuhoff was president and an owner of EVA TEES Inc., formerly of Long Island City,[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A former supervisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago pleaded guilty today, July 17, 2013, to a federal misdemeanor for stealing computer files containing confidential information relating to the bank’s responsibility to assess and monitor its credit risk exposure. The defendant, Brian McCarthy, admitted attempting to download[Read More…]

Hammond, IN-(ENEWSPF)- The United States Attorney’s Office announced that the following Indictments were returned today: Jeremy David Evans, 31, of Glendale Heights, Illinois, was charged with the bank robbery of TCF Bank in Munster, Indiana, and Fifth Third Bank in Hammond, Indiana, on August 8, 2012. These charges were filed[Read More…]

Saratoga Resident is the Latest in a Series of Defendants Charged With Concealing Bank Accounts at Israeli Banks Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 17, 2013.  Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division Kathryn Keneally and U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag for the Northern District of California announced that Moshe Handelsman of Saratoga, Calif., pleaded[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 17, 2013. The former chief executive officer and former chief financial officer of ArthroCare Corp., a publicly traded medical device company based in Austin, Texas, were charged for their alleged leading roles in a $400 million scheme to defraud the company’s shareholders and members of the investing public[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 17, 2013. Anthony Staino was sentenced today to serve 97 months in prison for his participation in a racketeering conspiracy involving extortion, loan sharking and illegal gambling, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger of the Eastern[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 17, 2013. The Justice Department today entered into a sweeping civil rights agreement with the commonwealth of Puerto Rico to modernize and reform the Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD).  The agreement resolves a civil suit initiated by the department in December 2012 to remedy a pattern and practice[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 16, 2013. Emerson Winfield Begolly, 24, of New Bethlehem, Penn., was sentenced today in Pittsburgh to 102 months in prison for soliciting others to engage in acts of terrorism within the United States and for using a firearm during and in relation to an assault on FBI agents. [Read More…]