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…]
Law and Order
Former Fugitive Pleads Guilty in Florida Multimillion-Dollar Health Care Fraud Scheme
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…]
Cyberstalker Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison
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…]
Chief Executive Officer of International Metallurgical Company Arrested for Exporting Aerospace-Grade Metals to Iran
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…]
Principal of Dietary Ingredient Companies Pleads Guilty to Multi-Million Dollar Fraud and Meth Precursor Scheme
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…]
Medical Equipment Company Will Pay $646 Million for Making Illegal Payments to Doctors and Hospitals in United States and Latin America
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…]
McHenry Man Indicted on Child Pornography Charges
ROCKFORD —(ENEWSPF)–March 1, 2016. A McHenry, Ill. man was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Rockford on child pornography charges. MICHAEL L. CHAPARRO, 27, was charged with one count of transporting child pornography via the internet, and two counts of accessing child pornography that had crossed state lines,[Read More…]
Remaining Defendant Pleads Guilty to Forced Labor Scheme that Exploited Guatemalan Minors at Ohio Egg Farms
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…]
Animal Rights Activist Sentenced to Three Years in Prison for Vandalizing a Farm and Releasing 2,000 Mink from Their Cages
CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–February 29, 2016. A California man was sentenced today to three years in federal prison for vandalizing a Grundy County fur farm and releasing more than 2,000 mink from their cages. After releasing the mink, KEVIN JOHNSON and an accomplice spray painted the barn with the words, “Liberation is[Read More…]
Park Forest Police Reach Out To Public To Curb Gun Violence: “Let’s be real here. We can’t do this alone.”
Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- The Park Forest Police reached out to residents via Facebook in an attempt to curb gun violence, and, indeed, all crime. The entire statement follows: The Park Forest Police Department is investigating a Reckless Discharge of a Firearm incident which occurred on 2/27/16 at approximately 6:30 pm[Read More…]
