Company Also Will Modify its Billing Practices Under FTC Settlement Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 16, 2014.   Apple Inc. has agreed to provide full refunds to consumers, paying a minimum of $32.5 million, to settle a Federal Trade Commission complaint that the company billed consumers for millions of dollars of charges incurred[Read More…]

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—January 14, 2014. H. TY WARNER, the creator of Beanie Babies and other plush animal toys was sentenced today to two years’ probation for failing to report more than $24.4 million in income, and evading nearly $5.6 million in federal taxes, from millions of dollars he hid for more than[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 14, 2014. A former Lorain County, Ohio, corrections officer was sentenced today to serve 18 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release after previously pleading guilty to one count of deprivation of rights under color of law, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Jocelyn Samuels for[Read More…]

Orders Ban Them from Mortgage Relief Business Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 14, 2014.  The South Florida-based defendants in an alleged mortgage relief scam will surrender their assets and be banned permanently from providing mortgage relief and debt relief services to consumers under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission.  This settlement represents[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 13, 2014. Today the District Court in the District of Columbia dismissed a challenge filed by the Florida Bankers Association and Texas Bankers Association challenging 2012 amendments to the Department of the Treasury’s interest-reporting regulations.  The regulations require U.S. banks to report to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 13, 2014. A former disc jockey for area high school parties pleaded guilty today in the District of Puerto Rico to producing child pornography. Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez of the District of Puerto Rico, and[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 13, 2014. Two former Coöperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank B.A. (Rabobank) Japanese Yen derivatives traders and the trader responsible for setting Rabobank’s Yen London InterBank Offered Rate (LIBOR) were charged as part of the ongoing criminal investigation into the manipulation of LIBOR. Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 13, 2014. The government has intervened in eight False Claims Act lawsuits against Health Management Associates Inc. (HMA) alleging that HMA billed federal health care programs for medically unnecessary inpatient admissions from the emergency departments at HMA hospitals and paid remuneration to physicians in exchange for patient referrals,[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 13, 2014. Rakecia Matrese Brame, formerly of Greensboro, N.C., and now of Grand Prairie, Texas, pleaded guilty on Jan. 10, 2014, to identity theft, tax, and fraud charges, the Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today.  Brame pleaded guilty to one count of wire[Read More…]

Joint Complaint with State of North Carolina Alleges Dealerships in Charlotte, N.C., Targeted African-American Customers for Unfair and Predatory Credit Practices That Violated Federal and State Law Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 13, 2014. The U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of North Carolina and the North[Read More…]