Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 15, 2014. Members of two different piracy groups engaged in the illegal distribution of copies of copyrighted Android mobile device applications have pleaded guilty for their roles in separate schemes, each designed to distribute more than one million copies of copyrighted apps. Acting Assistant Attorney General David A.[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 15, 2014. James E. Beavers and Beverly S. Beavers of Knoxville, Tenn., were each sentenced to serve 36 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today.  James and Beverly Beavers were also each ordered to pay[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 15, 2014. A Cleveland federal grand jury returned an indictment against one current executive and two former executives of Bridgestone Corp. for their roles in an international conspiracy to fix prices of automotive anti-vibration rubber parts sold in the United States and elsewhere, the Department of Justice announced[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 15, 2014. Francis E. Chandler III was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Susan Oki Mollway late yesterday to serve 37 months in prison and ordered to pay $3,066,629 in restitution for filing a false claim for tax refund and false retaliatory liens against four federal government officials, the[Read More…]

  WASHINGTON, D.C .—(ENEWSPF)—April 15, 2014. Today, President Barack Obama granted clemency to the following individual: Ceasar Huerta Cantu, also known as Cesar Huerta Cantu – Katy, Texas Offenses:  Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana; money laundering (Western District of Virginia) Sentence:  180 months’ imprisonment (as amended), five[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 14, 2014. The government has intervened in a False Claims Act lawsuit against Orbit Medical Inc. and Jake Kilgore alleging that Orbit Medical’s sales representatives boosted power wheelchair and accessory sales by altering and forging physician prescriptions and supporting documentation, the Justice Department announced today.   Orbit Medical is[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 14, 2014. Hope Cancer Institute, a cancer treatment facility in Kansas, and Dr. Raj Sadasivan, the owner of Hope Cancer Institute, have agreed to pay $2.9 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting claims to Medicare, Medicaid and the Federal Employee Health[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 11, 2014. Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally for the Tax Division and U.S. Attorney David A. Capp of the Northern District of Indiana announced today that Ronald Eugene Jamerson, 56, of Schererville, Ind., was sentenced to serve 12 months and one day in prison by U.S. District Judge[Read More…]

Court Bans Baltimore-based Defendants from Providing Immigration Services Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 11, 2014.  A federal court has ordered the operators of a Baltimore-based immigration services scam to pay as much as $616,000 in refunds to Spanish-speaking immigrants, who were deceived into paying the defendants for immigration services that they were not[Read More…]

Two Defendants Extradited to U.S. Will Make Initial Court Appearance Today Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 11, 2014. Nine alleged members of a wide-ranging racketeering enterprise and conspiracy who infected thousands of business computers with malicious software known as “Zeus” have been charged in an indictment unsealed today in Lincoln, Neb. Acting Assistant Attorney[Read More…]