CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–March 9, 2016. A federal jury has convicted the director of nursing assistants at Passages Hospice for participating in a scheme to bill Medicare and Medicaid for unnecessary hospice services. ANGELA ARMENTA, 35, of Wheeling, was convicted Tuesday night on three counts of health care fraud. Each count is[Read More…]
Law and Order
Jury Finds Air Force Veteran Guilty in First Conviction After Trial in the United States for Attempting to Travel Overseas to Join ISIL
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…]
Senior Auction Official at Beverly Hills Gallery Pleads Guilty in Connection with $1 Million Wildlife Smuggling Conspiracy
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…]
Police: Car Crashes Into Home On Westgate Drive, Driver Flees Scene, Apprehended
Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- The Park Forest Police reported that a vehicle drove into a home in the 400 block of Westgate Drive and left the scene of the accident. Police apprehended the driver, a Chicago Heights resident, a short time later. He was charged with DUI. The statement from the[Read More…]
Park Forest Police Arrest Suspect In Feb. 8 Robbery of First Midwest Bank
Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- The Park Forest Police announced that they have a suspect in custody regarding the bank robbery on February 8, 2016, at First Midwest Bank. The statement from the police follows: The suspect shown below in our media release on February 8, 2016, regarding the robbery of First[Read More…]
New York Man Sentenced to 16 Years in Prison for Attempting to Acquire Ricin
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…]
United States Settles False Claims Act Allegations Against 21st Century Oncology for $34.7 Million
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…]
Behr Iron & Steel Inc. Pleads Guilty to OSHA Violation Causing Death of Employee
ROCKFORD —(ENEWSPF)–March 8, 2016. A Rockford-based company pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Iain D. Johnston to willfully violating Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations, resulting in the death of an employee at the company’s facility in South Beloit, Ill. BEHR IRON & STEEL INC., a high volume[Read More…]
Justice Department Wins Religious Discrimination Lawsuit Against Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah
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…]
Virginia Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges for Role in Massive Identity Theft and Tax Fraud Scheme
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…]
