Bank Leumi Admits to Assisting U.S. Taxpayers in Hiding Assets in Offshore...
Washington, DC--(ENEWSPF)--December 22, 2014. A major Israeli international bank admitted that it conspired to aid and assist U.S. taxpayers to prepare and present false tax returns to the Internal...
View ArticleXTO Energy Inc. to Restore Areas Damaged by Natural Gas Extraction Activities
Washington, DC--(ENEWSPF)--December 22, 2014. The Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that XTO Energy Inc. (XTO), a subsidiary of ExxonMobil and the...
View ArticleUnited States Files Suit Against Omnicare Inc. for Accepting Kickbacks from...
Washington, DC--(ENEWSPF)--December 22, 2014. The United States has filed a civil False Claims Act complaint against Omnicare Inc. alleging that it solicited and received millions of dollars in...
View ArticleRegistered Sex Offender Sentenced to 35 Years in Federal Prison for...
Washington, DC--(ENEWSPF)--December 23, 2014. A registered sex offender was sentenced today to 35 years in prison for transporting and possessing child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney...
View ArticleKentucky Businessman Pleads Guilty in Manhattan Federal Court to $53 Million...
Washington, DC--(ENEWSPF)--December 23, 2014. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara for the Southern District of New York and Deputy Assistant Attorney General David A. Hubbert for the Tax Division of the...
View ArticleThird Company Agrees to Plead Guilty to Price Fixing on Ocean Shipping...
Company Agrees to Pay $59.4 Million Criminal Fine Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 29, 2014. Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK), a Japanese corporation, has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $59.4...
View ArticleManufacturer Fiskars Brands Inc. Agrees to Pay $2.6 Million Civil Penalty for...
Washington, DC--(ENEWSPF)--December 31, 2014. The Department of Justice has announced today that Gerber Legendary Blades, a division of Fiskars Brands Inc., of Madison, Wisconsin, has agreed to pay a...
View ArticleFort Smith, Arkansas, Agrees to Upgrade Sewer System to Reduce Discharges of...
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 2, 2015. The Department of Justice, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the state of Arkansas today announced that the city of Fort Smith, Arkansas, will...
View ArticleGovernment Intervenes in Lawsuit Against Florida Cardiologist Alleging...
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 5, 2015. The government has intervened in two lawsuits against a Florida cardiologist, Dr. Asad Qamar, and his physician group, the Institute for Cardiovascular...
View ArticleTwo Defendants Charged for their Role in an Attempted Coup in The Gambia
Defendants Charged with Conspiracy to Violate the Neutrality Act and Conspiracy to Possess Firearms in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 5, 2015. United States...
View ArticleFormer Acting HHS Cyber Security Director Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison for...
Five Others Previously Sentenced to Substantial Prison Terms for Participation in the Same Tor-Network-Based Child Pornography Website Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 5, 2015. The former acting...
View ArticleFormer Owner and President of Pennsylvania Consulting Companies Charged with...
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 6, 2015. The former owner and President of Chestnut Consulting Group Inc. and Chestnut Consulting Group Co. (generally referred to as the “Chestnut Group”) was indicted...
View ArticleFormer Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell Sentenced to Two Years in Prison...
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 6, 2015. The former Virginia Governor Robert F. McDonnell, 60, of Glen Allen, Virginia, was sentenced today to two years in prison for soliciting and obtaining...
View ArticleTwo Brandon, Mississippi, Men Plead Guilty for Committing Hate Crimes Against...
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 7, 2015. Acting Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis for the Southern District...
View ArticleFBI Arrests Defendants Charged with Trafficking Heroin and Other Drugs in...
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 7, 2015. FBI agents today arrested five of six Jefferson County, Alabama, men indicted by a federal grand jury in November on charges they operated an illegal...
View ArticleFormer HUD Employee Sentenced to 26 Months in Prison for Theft of Over...
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 17, 2015. Brian E. Thompson, 54, a former loan guarantee specialist for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, was sentenced today to serve 26 months in...
View ArticleFormer International Program Director of Adoption Agency Pleads Guilty to...
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 8, 2015. The former International Program Director of International Adoption Guides Inc. (IAG), an adoption agency, pleaded guilty today to conspiring with others to...
View ArticleThree Former Correctional Officers at Angola Prison Sentenced for Abusing an...
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 8, 2015. Three former correctional officers with the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, were sentenced today before United States District Judge James...
View ArticleDaiichi Sankyo Inc. Agrees to Pay $39 Million to Settle Kickback Allegations...
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 9, 2015. Daiichi Sankyo Inc., a global pharmaceutical company with its U.S. headquarters in New Jersey, has agreed to pay the United States and state Medicaid programs...
View ArticleJustice Department Enters Into Settlement Agreement with the State of Kansas...
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 9, 2015. Today, the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division reached an agreement with the state of Kansas to reform the Kansas State Department of Corrections...
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