Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 10, 2014. Three individuals have been indicted for their alleged roles in an approximately $32 million fraud against a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) program designed to provide discounted telephone services to low-income customers. The charges were announced today by Acting Assistant Attorney General David A. O’Neil of the[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 10, 2014. Following a comprehensive investigation, today the Justice Department announced its findings that the Albuquerque Police Department (APD) has engaged in a pattern or practice of excessive force that violates the Constitution and federal law.  The department delivered a letter setting forth these findings to Albuquerque Mayor[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 9, 2014. Robin Smith, 38, a former corrections officer at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center in Richland County, S.C., was sentenced to serve 24 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release today in the U.S. District Court for the District of South[Read More…]

HP Subsidiaries in Poland and Mexico Also Admit Misconduct; HP to Pay More Than $100 Million in Criminal and Regulatory Penalties to the Department of Justice and the SEC Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 9, 2014. ZAO Hewlett-Packard A.O. (HP Russia), an international subsidiary of the California technology company Hewlett-Packard Company (HP Co.),[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 8, 2014. The office manager of a Detroit-area home health agency was sentenced today to serve 46 months in prison for her role in a $5.8 million Medicare fraud scheme. Acting Assistant Attorney General David A. O’Neil of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 8, 2014. The United States filed a civil lawsuit today in Pittsburgh federal court to permanently bar Larry E. Snow, of Seward, Pa., from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Department of Justice and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. In February 2012, Snow pleaded guilty to[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 8, 2014. The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arkansas and the FBI announced today that Daniel Sutterfield, 35, Chief of the Bull Shoals Police Department, was arrested yesterday on charges related to his use of excessive force in the[Read More…]

Woman Was Denied Rental For Refusing to Provide Information That Would Jeopardize Family ORLANDO, Fla.–(ENEWSPF)–April 7, 2014.  A Florida apartment complex and property management company agreed today to adopt protections for survivors of domestic violence in line with federal law after a woman was refused housing for failing to provide[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 7, 2014. U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Tyson Hinckle, formerly an officer at Roxbury Correctional Institution (RCI) in Hagerstown, Md., to serve 30 months in prison for conspiring with other correctional officers to assault Kenneth Davis, an inmate.  Hinckle and RCI officers from three different shifts[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 4, 2014. A former vice president of a Chesapeake, Va., government contracting company pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to pay bribes to public officials in exchange for favorable treatment in connection with U.S. government contract work. Acting Assistant Attorney General David A. O’Neil of the Justice Department’s Criminal[Read More…]