Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 23, 2015. Two Utah companies are running a nationwide abusive scheme that purports to use false tax deductions and claims of the solar energy credit to reduce their customers’ federal income tax liability, according to a complaint filed today by the Justice Department. The United States’ complaint seeks[Read More…]
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Justice Department Settles Immigration-Related Discrimination Claim Against Sunny Grove Landscaping & Nursery Inc.
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 23, 2015. The Justice Department reached an agreement today with Sunny Grove Landscaping & Nursery Inc. (Sunny Grove), a landscaping company in Ft. Myers, Florida. The settlement resolves the department’s investigation of Sunny Grove for discrimination against work-authorized non-U.S. citizens in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act[Read More…]
Bakersfield, California, Police Narcotics Detective Charged with Bribery, Drug Trafficking, Obstruction and Filing False Tax Returns
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 20, 2015. Damacio Diaz, 43, of McFarland, California, a detective with the Bakersfield, California, Police Department (BPD), was arrested today, charged with abusing his position of trust as a police detective when he conspired with and assisted a narcotics dealer in the operation of the dealer’s drug organization,[Read More…]
Indiana Man Sentencing to 35 Years in Prison for Producing Child Pornography
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 20, 2015. An Indiana man was sentenced today to 35 years in prison for producing child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Josh Minkler of the Southern District of Indiana. Todd Chambers, 28, of Batesville, Indiana, pleaded[Read More…]
Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch Announces Indictment of Eight Defendants in United States and Mexico on Sex Trafficking and Related Charges
Charged Offenses Include Sex Trafficking, Interstate Prostitution, Alien Smuggling, Money Laundering, Racketeering and Racketeering Conspiracy in Connection with Scheme to Compel Mexican Women and Girls into Prostitution in the United States Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 20, 2015. A 27-count indictment was unsealed yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District[Read More…]
Owner of Houston Durable Medical Equipment Health Care Companies Sentenced for $3.4 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 20, 2015. A Texas man was sentenced today to 63 months for his role in a $3.4 million scheme to defraud Medicare, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson of the Southern District of Texas, Special Agent in[Read More…]
Three Companies and Three Individuals Charged in Fatal 2012 Gulf of Mexico Oil Drilling Platform Explosion
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 19, 2015. Black Elk Energy Offshore Operations LLC, Grand Isle Shipyards Inc., Wood Group PSN Inc., as well as Don Moss, 46, of Groves, Texas, Curtis Dantin, 50, of Cut-Off, Louisiana, and Christopher Srubar, 40, of Destrehan, Louisiana, have been charged with crimes for a November 2012 explosion[Read More…]
Justice Department Settles Immigration-Related Discrimination Claim Against McDonald’s
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 19, 2015. The Justice Department announced today that it reached a settlement with McDonald’s USA LLC and its corporate affiliates and subsidiaries (McDonald’s) resolving allegations that McDonald’s discriminated against immigrant employees of McDonald’s-owned restaurants. The department’s Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC) opened its[Read More…]
Offshore Oil Platform Operator Agrees to More Than $41 Million in Penalties for Unauthorized Oil Discharges and Improper Operations in Gulf of Mexico
ATP Oil & Gas Corp. Settles U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement and EPA Claims in Joint Judicial Enforcement Action under Clean Water Act and Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 19, 2015. In the continuing joint enforcement action by the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of[Read More…]
Physician Sentenced to 72 Months in Prison for Role in Detroit-Area Medicare Fraud Scheme
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 19, 2015. A Detroit-area physician who led and directed a multimillion-dollar Medicare fraud scheme through his medical practice was sentenced today to 72 months in prison. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade of the Eastern District of[Read More…]
