Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 3, 2014. A Las Vegas attorney pleaded guilty today for his role in multiple schemes to defraud his clients, to defraud the IRS and to fraudulently gain control of condominium homeowners’ associations (HOAs) in the Las Vegas area to ensure that the HOAs would steer business to a[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 3, 2014. A Florida man who had been the owner and operator of multiple physical therapy rehabilitation facilities pleaded guilty today for his role in organizing and leading a $28.3 million Medicare fraud scheme involving physical and occupational therapy services. Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the[Read More…]

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—January 31, 2014. The former manager of a defunct Chicago-based real estate company that acquired and managed hotels, including the Blake Hotel in Chicago and others in South Florida, was sentenced today to more than six years in federal prison for evading more than $1.7 million in federal income taxes.[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 31, 2014. The Justice Department, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland and the FBI announced that Josh Hummer, a sergeant at the Roxbury Correctional Institution (RCI) in Hagerstown, Md., was convicted today by a federal jury of obstructing justice during the investigation of an assault[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 31, 2014. Joseph Vito Mastronardo Jr., 63, of Meadowbrook, Pa., pleaded guilty today to conspiring to participate in a racketeering enterprise (RICO), conducting an illegal gambling business, four counts of conspiring to launder money, eight counts of interstate travel in aid of racketeering, transmitting wagering information and aggravated[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 31, 2014. A Queens, N.Y., medical doctor was sentenced today to serve 12 months and a day in prison for his role in a scheme that fraudulently billed Medicare more than $15 million for, among other things, physical therapy and lesion removal services that were medically unnecessary and[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 31, 2014. Top officers and a salesman for an investment company based in Nashville, Tenn., have pleaded guilty for their roles in an $18 million Ponzi scheme. Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney David Rivera of the Middle District of[Read More…]

Each Executive Agrees to Serve More Than a Year in U.S. Prison Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 31, 2014. The former president and vice president of Osaka, Japan-based Diamond Electric Mfg. Co. Ltd. have agreed to plead guilty for their participation in a global conspiracy to fix prices of ignition coils installed in[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 30, 2014. Jason McGuire of Detroit, Mich., and Delvin Davis of Saint Clair Shores, Mich., were found guilty by a jury sitting in Detroit in the Eastern District of Michigan of conspiracy and filing $3.4 million in false claims in the form of false individual income tax returns[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 30, 2014. An Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) gang member and an ABT associate were sentenced to prison today for their involvement in the May 2008 murder of an ABT prospect member. Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth[Read More…]