Justice Department and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Reach $98 Million...
Settlement Is Department’s Third Largest Fair Lending Agreement Ever and Largest Ever Auto Lending Agreement Washington, DC—(ENEWSWPF)—December 20, 2013. The Department of Justice and the Consumer...
View ArticleUnlicensed Miami Clinic Nurse Convicted at Trial and Sentenced for Role in...
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 20, 2013. An unlicensed nurse who fled after being charged in 2008 and was captured this year was sentenced today to serve 108 months in prison for her role in a fraud...
View ArticleTime Warner Cable to Pay $1.9 Million Penalty for Violating the Risk-Based...
Case is FTC’s First Brought Under the Rule Washington, DC--(ENEWSPF)--December 20, 2013. Time Warner Cable, Inc. has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that the company violated the...
View ArticleArmy National Guard Colonel and Sergeant Indicted for Allegedly Defrauding...
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 20, 2013. A retired colonel and a sergeant in the Army National Guard have been charged in a nine-count indictment in Albuquerque, N.M., for allegedly defrauding the...
View ArticleJustice Department Settles Discrimination Lawsuit Against Reading Parking...
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 20, 2013. The Department of Justice announced today that it has entered a consent decree with the Reading Parking Authority (RPA) in the City of Reading, Pa., which,...
View ArticleArcher Daniels Midland Company Subsidiary Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to...
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 20, 2013. A subsidiary of Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) pleaded guilty today and has agreed to pay more than $17 million in criminal fines to resolve charges...
View ArticleOhio Lobbyist Pleads Guilty for Role in Kickback and Money Laundering Scheme
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 23, 2013. An Ohio attorney and lobbyist pleaded guilty today for his role in a bribery and money laundering scheme involving the Ohio Treasurer’s Office. Acting...
View ArticleFormer Ohio Deputy Treasurer Pleads Guilty for His Role in Kickback and Money...
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 23, 2013. The former Ohio deputy treasurer pleaded guilty today for his role in leading a bribery and money laundering scheme involving the Ohio Treasurer’s Office....
View ArticleFour Minneapolis-based Return Preparers Indicted for Conspiracy, Aggravated...
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 23, 2013. A 63-count superseding indictment charging Chatonda Khofi, Ishmael Kosh, Amadou Sangaray and Francis Saygbay in a conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue...
View ArticleJustice Department and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Reach $35 Million...
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 23, 2013. The Justice Department and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau filed a consent order today to resolve allegations that National City Bank engaged in a...
View ArticleTexas Man Charged with Federal Hate Crime for Punching and Breaking Jaw of...
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 26, 2013. Conrad Alvin Barrett, 27, has been charged with a federal hate crime related to a racially-motivated assault of a 79-year-old African American man, announced...
View ArticleDistrict Court Enters Permanent Injunction Against Pennsylvania-Based Dairy...
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 26, 2013. U.S. District Court Judge Kim R. Gibson of the Western District of Pennsylvania has entered a consent decree of permanent injunction against Metzler &...
View ArticleFBI: United States Attorney Announces Conviction and Sentencing of Evansville...
Evansville, IN-(ENEWSPF)- Joseph H. Hogsett, the United States Attorney, announced December 17 that Gregory P. Stodghill, age 46, of Vincennes, has been convicted and sentenced by U.S. District Chief...
View ArticleFBI: Federal Grand Jury in Fort Wayne Returns Indictments on Dec. 16, 2013
Fort Wayne, IN-(ENEWSPF)- The United States Attorney’s Office announced that a grand jury sitting in Fort Wayne, Indiana, returned the following Indictments on December 16, 2013: Brandon S. Keister,...
View ArticleFBI: Indictments Returned in Hammond Federal Court Dec. 18, 2013
Hammond, IN-(ENEWSPF)- The United States Attorney’s Office announced that the following Indictments were returned on December 18, 2013: Alejandro Murillo, 26, of Chicago, Illinois, was charged with...
View ArticleAbbott Laboratories Pays U.S. $5.475 Million to Settle Claims That Company...
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 30, 2013. Abbott Laboratories has agreed to pay the United States $5.475 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to...
View ArticleFBI: Rockford Man Sentenced to 113 Months in Federal Prison for the Robberies...
Rockford, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A Rockford, Illinois man was sentenced December 27 in federal court before U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala to 113 months in prison without parole, to be followed by...
View ArticleEastern California Real Estate Investor Pleads Guilty to Bid Rigging and...
Investigation Has Resulted in 11 Guilty Pleas to Date Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 30, 2013. An Eastern California real estate investor pleaded guilty today to conspiring to rig bids and commit...
View ArticleColorado Health Care Organization and One of Its Montana Hospitals to Pay...
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 31, 2013. St. James Healthcare (St. James), a hospital located in Butte, Mont., and its parent company, Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System (Sisters of...
View ArticleThree Northern California Real Estate Investors Agree to Plead Guilty to Bid...
Investigation Has Yielded 43 Plea Agreements to Date Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 2, 2014. Three Northern California real estate investors have agreed to plead guilty for their roles in...
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