Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—August 19, 2014. Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has approved final orders settling charges against Fandango, Inc. and Credit Karma, Inc. According to the FTC’s complaints, the companies’ mobile apps left consumers’ sensitive personal information, including credit card information and Social Security numbers, vulnerable to[Read More…]

Defendant Is Second Former Rabobank Employee to Plead Guilty in LIBOR Rigging Scandal Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—August 18, 2014. A former Coöperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank B.A. (Rabobank) Japanese Yen London InterBank Offered Rate (LIBOR) submitter pleaded guilty today for his role in a conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud by manipulating Rabobank’s[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—August 18, 2014. An associate of the Armenian Power gang, who was convicted at trial for his role in a racketeering conspiracy that included stealing personal and financial information of elderly bank customers for accounts valued at more than $25 million, was sentenced to serve 160 months in prison[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—August 18, 2014. Waldemar Lorenzana Sr., 75, the patriarch of the Lorenzana drug trafficking organization in Guatemala, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to import over 450 kilograms of cocaine into the United States. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Acting Special Agent[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—August 15, 2014. The former owner of a Los Angeles medical clinic management company pleaded guilty today in connection with his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Acting U.S. Attorney Stephanie Yonekura of the Central District[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—August 15, 2014. Two Miami, Florida, residents pleaded guilty this week to participating in a mortgage fraud scheme involving the sale of condominium units in the Miami area. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer of the Southern District[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—August 15, 2014. The Justice Department reached an agreement today with Real Time Staffing Services LLC, doing business as Select Staffing, a company based in Santa Barbara, California.  The settlement resolves the department’s claims that Select Staffing discriminated against work-authorized non-U.S. citizens in violation of the Immigration and Nationality[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—August 15, 2014. Christopher W. Loncarich, 55, of Mack, Colorado, pleaded guilty in federal court in Denver to a felony conspiracy charge stemming from his sale of outfitting services for illegal mountain lion and bobcat hunts in Colorado and Utah, the Justice Department announced. Loncarich pleaded guilty to one[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—August 15, 2014. The former chief executive officer of Hanover Corporation was sentenced today to serve 14 years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $14,784,983.75 in restitution for orchestrating an $18 million Ponzi scheme. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell[Read More…]

Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–August 15, 2014.  Sabahaddin Akman, owner of the Istanbul, Turkey, firm Ozay Pharmaceuticals, has pleaded guilty to charges of smuggling misbranded and adulterated cancer treatment drugs into the United States. Akman pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, in St. Louis, Missouri,[Read More…]