Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 27, 2014. A Massachusetts man was sentenced to serve four years in prison today for hacking into computer networks around the country – including networks belonging to law enforcement agencies and a local college – to obtain highly sensitive law enforcement data and to alter academic records, as[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 24, 2014. The United States filed a civil complaint for injunctive relief in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota against 2035 Inc. and its president, Dr. Robert L. Lytle, the Department of Justice announced today.  Lytle, who does business as 2035 Private Membership Association[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 24, 2014. The Justice Department announced today that it reached an agreement with Serendipity Hearing Inc., doing business as Sonus Hearing Care (Sonus), a hearing services provider headquartered in the Los Angeles, California, metropolitan area.  The agreement resolves a claim, filed with the Office of Special Counsel for[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 24, 2014. The Justice Department announced today that First RF Corporation (First RF), an antenna and radio system company located in Boulder, Colorado, has agreed to pay $10 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting inflated  claims for electronic warfare antennas sold[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 24, 2014. Alexander Beltran Herrera, 38, a commander of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) terrorist organization, was sentenced today to 27 years in prison on federal hostage-taking charges stemming from the 2003 capture of three U.S. citizens in Colombia.  All told, members of the FARC held[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 24, 2014. Today, the Justice Department announced that the Grand Jury for the Middle District of Georgia charged Miguel Angel Reyes and Gloria Gallego with conspiring with former Lowndes County Sheriff’s Deputy Jason Stacks to use Stacks’ law enforcement authority to violate Hispanic motorists’ civil rights, as well[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 24, 2014.  At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a federal court has shut down a company that scammed computer users by tricking them into paying hundreds of dollars for technical support services they did not need, as well as software that was otherwise available for free.[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 24, 2014. The former mayor of the municipality of Río Grande, Puerto Rico, pleaded guilty today to soliciting and receiving approximately $39,000 in cash bribes from a contractor who sought to be awarded three construction inspection contracts with the municipality of Río Grande. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R.[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 23, 2014. A certified public accountant (CPA) from Dayton, Ohio, was sentenced today to serve 12 months and one day in prison to be followed by one year of supervised release by U.S. District Judge Edmund A. Sargus Jr. in Columbus, Ohio, on tax charges, announced the Justice[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 23, 2014. Today, two West Bloomfield, Michigan, residents pleaded guilty to tax fraud in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, announced the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS).  Maher Bashi, who served as Happy’s Pizza’s corporate chief operating officer, and Tom Yaldo, an[Read More…]