Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against Texas Bus Company Alleging...
Washington, DC--(ENEWSPF)--August 5, 2013. The Justice Department announced today the filing of a lawsuit with the Executive Office of Immigration Review’s Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing...
View ArticleFormer Federal Fugitive Sentenced in California for Nationwide Foreclosure Scam
Collected More Than $1.2 Million from More Than 800 Distressed Homeowners Washington, DC--(ENEWSPF)--August 5, 2013. Glen Alan Ward, 48, a former Los Angeles resident who fled to Canada and was a...
View ArticleMajor Colombian Narcotics Trafficker Sentenced in Washington, D.c., to 25...
Washington, DC--(ENEWSPF)--August 5, 2013. Christian Fernando Borda, a major narcotics trafficker aligned with paramilitary groups in Colombia, was sentenced today to serve 25 years in prison for...
View ArticleFTC Approves Final Orders Settling Charges Against Retailers Accused of...
Washington, DC--(ENEWSPF)--August 6, 2013. The Federal Trade Commission has approved final orders settling charges that retailers Neiman Marcus, DrJays.com and Eminent Inc. sold products containing...
View ArticleTexas Businessman Agrees to Settle False Claims Allegations Involving the...
Washington, DC--(ENEWSPF)--August 6, 2013. Larry Lehmann of Giddings, Texas has agreed to pay $400,000 to settle allegations that he violated the False Claims Act in connection with the Federal...
View ArticleOakland County Doctor and Owner of Michigan Hemotology and Oncology Centers...
Washington, DC--(ENEWSPF)--August 6, 2013. Dr. Farid Fata, 48, of Oakland Township, Michigan, was arrested this morning and charged in a criminal complaint for his role in a health care fraud scheme...
View ArticlePuerto Rican Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for Murdering a Federal Witness
Washington, DC--(ENEWSPF)--August 6, 2013. Xavier Jiménez-Benceví, aka “Xavi,” 28, was sentenced to life in prison following his conviction for murdering a federal witness on a drug trafficking case....
View ArticleThree MS-13 Leaders Found Guilty of Racketeering and Additional Charges for...
Twelve Others Have Pleaded Guilty in the Case Washington, DC--(ENEWSPF)--August 6, 2013. Three leaders of MS-13 in Washington, D.C., were found guilty by a federal jury today of conspiring to...
View ArticleAntiques Dealer Pleads Guilty in New York City Federal Court to Wildlife...
Washington, DC--(ENEWSPF)--August 7, 2013. Qiang Wang, a/k/a Jeffrey Wang, a New York antiques dealer, pleaded guilty today in federal court in New York City to conspiracy to smuggle Asian artifacts...
View ArticleFive Puerto Rico Police Department Officers Indicted on Federal Civil Rights,...
Washington, DC--(ENEWSPF)--August 7, 2013. A second superseding indictment against five Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD) officers was announced today by Jocelyn Samuels, Acting Assistant Attorney...
View ArticleJustice Department Signs Agreement with the City of Fort Morgan, Colo. to...
Washington, DC--(ENEWSPF)--August 8, 2013. The Justice Department announced today an agreement with the city of Fort Morgan, Colo., to improve access to all aspects of civic life for persons with...
View ArticleShipping Corporation and Two Engineers Convicted in ‘Magic Pipe’ Case in...
Washington, DC--(ENEWSPF)--August 8, 2013. Diana Shipping Services S.A., a Panamanian corporation headquartered in Greece, Ioannis Prokakis and Antonios Boumpoutelos, both citizens of Greece, were...
View ArticleFBI: Evansville Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison After Child Exploitation...
Indianapolis, IN-(ENEWSPF)- United States Attorney Joseph H. Hogsett announced August 7 the sentencing of Evansville resident Floyd Patrick Williams, age 48, to 15 years in federal prison following...
View ArticleMassachusetts Man Charged with Making Hoax Emergency Services Calls to Elicit...
Washington, DC--(ENEWSPF)--August 9, 2013. An Athol, Mass., man has been charged in a criminal information with engaging in a practice known as “swatting,” which involves making hoax emergency...
View ArticleOwner of New York Construction Company Indicted for Tax Fraud
Washington, DC--(ENEWSPF)--August 9, 2013. The Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that Tomas Olazabal, of Fresh Meadows, N.Y., was arrested today following his indictment...
View ArticleUnited States Files Lawsuit Against PharMerica Corporation for Violations of...
Government Alleges That Long-term Care Pharmacy Billed Medicare for Schedule II Controlled Substances That Were Dispensed Without a Valid Prescription Washington, DC--(ENEWSPF)--August 9, 2013. The...
View ArticleFederal Officials Close the Investigation into the Death of Carlos LaMadrid
Washington, DC--(ENEWSPF)--August 12, 2013. The Justice Department will not pursue federal criminal civil rights or other federal criminal charges against the United States Border Patrol (USBP) agent...
View ArticleFederal Officials Close the Investigation into the Death of Ramses Barron-Torres
Washington, DC--(ENEWSPF)--August 12, 2013. The Justice Department will not pursue federal criminal civil rights or other federal criminal charges against the United States Border Patrol (USBP) agent...
View ArticleFederal Jury Convicts James 'Whitey' Bulger
BOSTON--(ENEWSPF)--August 12, 2013. Following a two-month long trial in U.S. District Court a federal jury today convicted James J. Bulger, holding him responsible for the murder of 11 people, as well...
View ArticleFBI: Suburban Man Sentenced to More Than 12 Years in Federal Prison for...
Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A La Grange Park man who had amassed a collection of tens of thousands of images and videos of child pornography was sentenced today to 12 ½ years in federal prison for...
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