Defendant Defrauded Investors in a Nigerian Oil Scheme and Made False Claims to the Department of Veterans Affairs NEVADA–(ENEWSPF)–July 19, 2016.   A Las Vegas resident was sentenced to 25 years in jail today on multiple fraud charges, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 19, 2016.  The Federal Trade Commission is mailing 5,970 refund checks totaling more than $4 million to people who were bombarded with illegal robocalls and tricked into paying thousands of dollars for bogus “extended auto warranties.” The checks, which are being mailed today and provide full refunds, are[Read More…]

TEXAS–(ENEWSPF)–July 18, 20916. The former director of Baseball Development for the St. Louis Cardinals has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of accessing the Houston Astros’ computers without authorization, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson for the Southern District of Texas and Special Agent in Charge Perrye K. Turner[Read More…]

VIRGINIA–(ENEWSPF)–July 15, 2016.  Joseph Hassan Farrokh, 29, of Woodbridge, Virginia, was sentenced today to 102 months in prison for attempting to provide material support and resources to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization. Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin,[Read More…]

Company Must Tie Distributor Rewards to Verifiable Retail Product Sales And Stop Misleading Consumers about Potential Earnings Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 15, 2016. Herbalife International of America, Inc., Herbalife International, Inc., and Herbalife, Ltd. have agreed to fully restructure their U.S. business operations and pay $200 million to compensate consumers to settle[Read More…]

ALABAMA–(ENEWSPF)–July 14, 2016.  The Justice Department announced today that a federal jury convicted the Chief of Police of Stevenson, Alabama, Daniel Winters, 56, of two counts of deprivation of civil rights under color of law: one count for beating an arrestee, identified as D.F., and one count for failing to[Read More…]

NORTH CAROLINA–(ENEWSPF)–July 14, 2016.  Two U.S. citizens and a Canadian citizen have pleaded guilty for their roles in a $9 million “sweepstakes fraud” scheme to defraud hundreds of U.S. residents, many of them elderly, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney[Read More…]

Former New Jersey Transportation Commissioner Also Charged in Bribery Scheme United Continental Holdings Inc. Agrees to Reforms, Will Pay $2.25 Million Penalty NEW JERSEY–(ENEWSPF)–July 14, 2016.  David Samson, 76, of Aiken, South Carolina, and the former chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Port Authority of New York and[Read More…]

Bank Deceptively Marketed Its Overdraft Service to Consumers, Violated “Opt-in” Rule WASHINGTON, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–July 14, 2016.  The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has ordered Santander Bank, N.A. to pay a $10 million fine for illegal overdraft service practices. Santander’s telemarketing vendor deceptively marketed the overdraft service and signed certain bank[Read More…]

CALIFORNIA–(ENEWSPF)–July 13, 2016.  A Chinese national who admitted to participating in a years-long conspiracy that involved Chinese military officers hacking into the computer networks of major U.S. defense contractors in order to steal military technical data was sentenced today to 46 months in federal prison. Today’s sentencing was announced by[Read More…]