Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 18, 2014. A California investment manager was sentenced yesterday to serve 225 months in prison for orchestrating a $33 million Ponzi scheme resulting in $15.2 million in losses to investors. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Acting U.S. Attorney Carlie Christensen of[Read More…]
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Houston Investment Manager Sentenced to 56 Months in Prison for Orchestrating $72 Million Ponzi Scheme
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 18, 2014. A Houston investment manager was sentenced yesterday to serve 56 months in prison for orchestrating a $72 million investment fraud scheme resulting in approximately $40 million in losses to investors. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Acting U.S. Attorney Carlie[Read More…]
14 Indicted in Connection with New England Compounding Center and Nationwide Fungal Meningitis Outbreak
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 17, 2014. A 131-count criminal indictment was unsealed today in Boston in connection with the 2012 nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak, the Justice Department announced. Barry J. Cadden, owner and head pharmacist of New England Compounding Center (NECC) and NECC’s supervisory pharmacist Glenn A. Chin were charged with 25[Read More…]
Owner of Dietary Supplement Company Pleads Guilty to Multi-Million Dollar Scheme to Adulterate Dietary Supplements
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 17, 2014. The owner and president of a dietary supplement manufacturing company in Flanders, New Jersey, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in relation to a scheme in which he directed the sale of diluted and adulterated dietary ingredients and supplements sold by his company,[Read More…]
President Obama Grants Commutations and Pardons, Dec. 17, 2014
WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—December 17, 2014. Today President Barack Obama granted clemency to twenty individuals, consisting of eight commutations and twelve pardons. The President granted commutations of sentence to the following eight individuals: Sidney Earl Johnson, Jr. – Mobile, AL Offense: Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine[Read More…]
Mastermind of $56 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme and Doctor Plead Guilty
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 17, 2014. The organizer of a $56 million Medicare fraud conspiracy and an accomplice physician pleaded guilty today in federal court in Louisiana to health care fraud charges. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite of the Eastern[Read More…]
Avon China Pleads Guilty to Violating the FCPA by Concealing More Than $8 Million in Gifts to Chinese Officials
Avon Products Inc. and Avon Products (China) Co. Ltd. Will Pay More than $135 Million in Criminal and Regulatory Penalties Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 17, 2014. Avon Products (China) Co. Ltd. (Avon China), a wholly owned subsidiary of the New York-based cosmetics company, Avon Products Inc. (Avon), pleaded guilty today to conspiring[Read More…]
Italian Shipping Company Pleads Guilty to Environmental Crimes for Concealing Vessel Pollution
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 16, 2014. An Italian shipping firm based in Genoa, Italy, pleaded guilty to violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships by falsifying required ships’ documents to hide the fact that the ship had illegally discharged oil contaminated waste into the ocean on multiple occasions, announced the Department[Read More…]
Justice Department and City of St. Anthony Village Resolve Lawsuit Over Denial of Permit for Islamic Center
City of St. Anthony Village Agrees to Allow Abu Huraira Islamic Center a Permit to Worship in St. Anthony Business Center Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 16, 2014. Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Vanita Gupta and U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota Andrew M. Luger today announced a settlement agreement[Read More…]
Former Employee of U.S. Contractor in Afghanistan Indicted for Bribery
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 16, 2014. A former employee of a U.S. contractor was indicted today in the Eastern District of Texas for allegedly soliciting and accepting bribes in exchange for his influence in awarding U.S. government-funded contracts in Afghanistan, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal[Read More…]
