Former U.S. Air Force Airplane Mechanic Convicted of Attempting to Provide Material Support to Terrorists and Obstruction of an Official Proceeding NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–March 9, 2016.  A jury in the Eastern District of New York today found Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh, 48, of Neptune, New Jersey, a veteran of the U.S.[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–March 9, 2016.  Joseph Chait, the senior auction administrator of a Beverly Hills, California, gallery and auction house, pleaded guilty to conspiring to smuggle wildlife products made from rhinoceros horn, elephant ivory and coral with a market value of at least approximately $1 million, announced Assistant Attorney General John[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–March 8, 2016.  Cheng Le, 22, of Manhattan, New York, was sentenced today to 16 years in prison for attempting to acquire ricin, postal fraud and identity theft in relation to a terrorism offense.  Le was convicted on Aug. 27, 2015, following a four-day jury trial before U.S. District[Read More…]

FLORIDA–(ENEWSPF)–March 8,k 2016.  21st Century Oncology Inc., the nation’s largest physician led integrated cancer care provider and its wholly owned subsidiary South Florida Radiation Oncology LLC, have agreed to settle allegations that they performed and billed for procedures that were not medically necessary, the Department of Justice announced today.  21st[Read More…]

ARIZONA–(ENEWSPF)–March 7, 2016.  A federal jury in Phoenix returned a verdict today finding that the towns of Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah, and their joint water company systematically discriminated against individuals who are not members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS) in the provision[Read More…]

Worked With Others to Seek Over $1.5 Million in Fraudulent Refunds VIRGINIA–(ENEWSPF)–March 7, 2016.  A federal district court judge accepted a Virginia man’s plea of guilty today for his involvement in a far-reaching stolen identity refund fraud scheme in which he conspired with others to seek over $1.5 million in[Read More…]

FLORIDA–(ENEWSPF)–March 7, 2016.  A Land O’ Lakes, Florida, businessman was sentenced by a judge in federal court in Tampa today to 174 months in prison for his role in a multimillion-dollar health care fraud and money laundering scheme. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division,[Read More…]

TEXAS–(ENEWSPF)–March 7, 2016.  Philip Joseph Rivkin, aka Felipe Poitan Arriaga, was sentenced today in Houston, Texas, to 121 months in prison, three years of supervised release and to pay more than $87 million in restitution and was ordered to forfeit $51 million for generating and selling fraudulent biodiesel credits in[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 7, 2016.  The U.S. Supreme Court today denied Apple’s petition for certiorari in United States v. Apple Inc., making final lower court decisions that Apple orchestrated a price-fixing conspiracy with five major e-book publishers and substantially raised e-book prices. The Supreme Court’s action triggers Apple’s obligation to pay[Read More…]

PENNSYLVANIA–(ENEWSPF)–March 2, 2016.  A priest of the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 200 months in prison to be followed by lifetime supervised release for offenses related to his sexual abuse of two minor boys during trips to Honduras over a five-year period, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie[Read More…]