Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 1, 2015. Two individuals pleaded guilty today for their roles at fraudulent debt relief services companies that offered to settle credit card debts but instead took victims’ payments as undisclosed up-front fees, the Justice Department and U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) announced. Athena Maldonado, 30, and Christopher Harati,[Read More…]
Federal and International
Former Senate Staffer Charged with Wire Fraud
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 28, 2015. A former staff member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation was charged by indictment in the Eastern District of Virginia with defrauding at least three women of approximately $500,000, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and[Read More…]
Garden State Cardiovascular Specialists P.C. Agrees to Pay $3.6 Million for Allegedly Submitting False Claims to Federal Health Care Programs
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 28, 2015. Garden State Cardiovascular Specialists P.C. (Garden State), a cardiology practice which owns and operates several facilities in New Jersey under the name NJ MedCare/NJ Heart, has agreed to pay more than $3.6 million to resolve allegations that its facilities falsely billed federal health care programs for[Read More…]
Justice Department and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Reach Settlement with Provident Funding Associates to Resolve Allegations of Mortgage Lending Discrimination
Settlement Provides $9 Million in Compensation to African-American and Hispanic Borrowers Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—May 28, 2015. The Justice Department and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) filed a consent order today to resolve allegations that Provident Funding Associates (Provident) engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination that increased loan prices for[Read More…]
Justice Department Reaches Landmark Settlement with Alabama to Protect Prisoners at Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women from Harm Due to Staff Sexual Abuse and Sexual Harassment
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—May 28, 2015. The Department of Justice today filed a complaint and settlement agreement in the district court of the Middle District of Alabama to protect prisoners at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, Alabama, from sexual victimization by correctional officers. The agreement filed is designed to[Read More…]
Seller of ‘Miracle Mineral Solution’ Convicted for Marketing Toxic Chemical as a Miracle Cure
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 28, 2015. A federal jury in the Eastern District of Washington returned a guilty verdict yesterday against a Spokane, Washington, man for selling industrial bleach as a miracle cure for numerous diseases and illnesses, including cancer, AIDS, malaria, hepatitis, lyme disease, asthma and the common cold, the Department[Read More…]
New Orleans Man Charged With Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud and Conspiracy to Commit Trademark Counterfeiting Using the ‘Silk Road’ Online Marketplace
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 28, 2015. A Louisiana man was charged in a two-count information with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit trademark counterfeiting using the “Silk Road” online marketplace, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite Jr.[Read More…]
Four Banks Reach Resolutions Under Department of Justice Swiss Bank Program
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 28, 2015. The Department of Justice announced today that the following four banks reached a resolution under the department’s Swiss Bank Program: Société Générale Private Banking (Lugano-Svizzera) MediBank AG LBBW (Schweiz) AG Scobag Privatbank AG “Today’s agreements reflect the Tax Division’s continued progress towards reaching appropriate resolutions with[Read More…]
Georgia Man Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIL
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 27, 2015. Leon Nathan Davis, 37, of Augusta, Georgia, pleaded guilty earlier today to an information charging him with attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, specifically the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P.[Read More…]
Senior Member of Al-Qaeda Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Kill U.S. Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan and Providing Material Support to Al-Qaeda
Defendant Tried to Lure American Solders to a Compound in Afghanistan that Was Rigged with Explosives; Also Facilitated the Entry of an American Citizen into Al-Qaeda Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 26, 2015. Earlier today, Saddiq al-Abbadi, 40, a Yemeni national, pleaded guilty to conspiring to murder U.S. nationals abroad, providing and conspiring[Read More…]
