MINNESOTA–(ENEWSPF)–March 2, 2016. Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger of the District of Minnesota announced today that Michael John Harris, 33, pleaded guilty to making telephonic threats to two clinics that provide reproductive health services in[Read More…]

Payment Processor Deceived Consumers About the Data Security Risks of Using Its Online System Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–March 2, 2016.  The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today took action against online payment platform Dwolla for deceiving consumers about its data security practices and the safety of its online payment system. The CFPB[Read More…]

FLORIDA–(ENEWSPF)–March 1, 2016.  A Cuban national who fled the United States and had been wanted since 2013 on federal criminal charges relating to a multimillion-dollar health care fraud scheme in the greater Tampa Bay, Florida, area pleaded guilty today for his role in the scheme. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R.[Read More…]

FLORIDA–(ENEWSPF)–March 1, 2016.  Michael Daniel Rubens, 31, formerly of Tallahassee, Florida, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison, a $15,000 fine and $1,550 in restitution for cyberstalking, unauthorized access to a protected computer and aggravated identity theft.  The sentence was announced by Acting U.S. Attorney Christopher P. Canova for[Read More…]

Defendant Exported High-Tech Material Used in Missile Production and Nuclear Applications NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–March 1, 2016.  Earlier today Erdal Kuyumcu, 44, of Woodside, New York, was arrested on charges of illegally exporting a cobalt-nickel metallic powder from the United States to Iran, through an intermediary in Turkey.  Kuyumcu will make his[Read More…]

NEW JERSEY–(ENEWSPF)–March 1, 2016.  The principal of a series of dietary ingredient companies in New Jersey pleaded guilty today in connection with the sale of methamphetamine precursor chemicals, a separate scheme to defraud purchasers of dietary supplements and money laundering, the Department of Justice announced. “The Department of Justice has[Read More…]

Olympus Corp. of the Americas, Nation’s Largest Distributor of Endoscopes, Also Agrees to Reforms and Subsidiary Admits to Foreign Bribery NEW JERSEY–(ENEWSPF)–March 1, 2016.  The United States’ largest distributor of endoscopes and related equipment will pay $623.2 million to resolve criminal charges and civil claims relating to a scheme to[Read More…]

OHIO–(ENEWSPF)–February 29, 2016.  Ana Angelica Pedro Juan, 22, of Guatemala, the remaining indicted defendant in a human-trafficking ring, pleaded guilty today in federal court to conspiring to lure Guatemalan minors and adults into the United States on false pretenses, then coercing their labor at egg farms in Ohio.  The guilty[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 29, 2016. Lockheed Martin Corporation and subsidiaries Lockheed Martin Energy Systems and Lockheed Martin Utility Services (collectively, Lockheed Martin) have agreed to pay the United States $5 million to resolve allegations that they violated the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and, in misrepresenting their compliance with RCRA to[Read More…]

TEXAS–(ENEWSPF)–February 26, 2016.  Six individuals, including two Dallas-area doctors, were charged in a superseding indictment that was unsealed today for their alleged participation in a $13.4 million health care fraud scheme involving fraudulent claims for home health services. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division,[Read More…]