Chinese Professors Alleged to Have Stolen Valuable Technology from Avago Technologies and Skyworks Solutions to Benefit a PRC University Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 19, 2015.  On May 16, 2015, Tianjin University Professor Hao Zhang was arrested upon entry into the United States from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in connection with[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 19, 2015.  United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) has agreed to pay $25 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims to the federal government in connection with its delivery of Next Day Air overnight packages, the Justice Department announced today.  UPS is a package delivery company based[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 18, 2015.  Fourteen persons have been charged in connection with an alleged wide-ranging criminal conspiracy to violate airport security requirements and transport drugs throughout the country announced U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag of the Northern District of California, Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez of the Internal Revenue[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—May 18, 2015. Across Town Movers, a San Diego-based storage company, and its owner, Daniel E. Homan, have agreed to pay nearly $170,000 to resolve allegations by the Department of Justice that it unlawfully sold U.S. Navy service members’ stored goods. The settlement resolves a lawsuit filed in March[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 18, 2015.  A German citizen was sentenced today to six years in prison for operating a web-based bulletin board for child pornography. The sentence was announced by Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Postal Inspector in Charge Gary Barksdale of the U.S.[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 15, 2015.  Three defendants were sentenced for their roles in an international child pornography web-based bulletin board that was targeted by state and federal investigators and prosecutors participating in Operation Moon Runner. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Michael W.[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 15, 2015. Khalid al Fawwaz, 52, a citizen of Saudi Arabia, was sentenced today to life in prison for multiple terrorism offenses relating to his participation in al Qaeda’s conspiracy to kill Americans. Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin and U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of[Read More…]

Washington DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 14, 2015.  Matthew Krapf, 45, of Collegeville, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to life in prison for 10 counts, each, of using or inducing a child to pose for child pornography, use of an interstate commerce facility to entice a minor to engage in sexual contact, three counts of[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 14, 2015.  Ning Qiu, 43, of Frisco, Texas, an appraiser of Asian art, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Thad Heartfield, in Beaumont, Texas, to 25 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to smuggle rhinoceros horns and objects made[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 14, 2015. Three subsidiaries of North Carolina-based Duke Energy Corporation, the largest utility in the United States, pleaded guilty today to nine criminal violations of the Clean Water Act at several of its North Carolina facilities and agreed to pay a $68 million criminal fine and spend $34[Read More…]