Chicago —(ENEWSPF)—December 24, 2015. Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced charges against three Chicago area hotel owners in a sweep to crack down on violations of the Hotel Operators’ Occupation Tax Act (HOOT). The individuals are accused of defrauding the state out of more than $470,000 from eight hotels in the[Read More…]
Law and Order
Park Forest Police Blotter Reports for December 21, 2015
Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)–Editor’s Note: We continue our reporting on news from police reports. Besides covering the many stories from around Park Forest that otherwise might go unnoticed, we want to bring more complete coverage of police reports than is reported by other local media. An arrest does not mean that[Read More…]
Ohio Cardiologist Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Overbilling Medicare and Others of $5.7 Million for Unnecessary Procedures
OHIO–(ENEWSPF)–December 18, 2015. A Westlake, Ohio, cardiologist was sentenced to 20 years in prison for performing unnecessary catheterizations, tests, stent insertions and causing unnecessary coronary artery bypass surgeries as part of a scheme to overbill Medicare and other insurers by $29 million, law enforcement officials said. Dr. Harold Persaud, 56,[Read More…]
Illinois Woman Convicted for Kidnapping and Transportation of a Minor with Intent to Engage in Sexual Activity
PEORIA–(ENEWSPF)–December 18, 2015. A federal jury in Peoria, Illinois, found Nicole Eason guilty on two counts of kidnapping and one count of transportation with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity with a minor, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney James[Read More…]
Peruvian Man Sentenced for Threatening and Defrauding Spanish-Speaking Consumers Through Fraudulent Call Centers
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 18, 2015. A resident of Lima, Peru, charged with operating call centers that lied to and threatened Spanish-speaking victims in the United States, convincing them to pay fraudulent settlements, was sentenced today to more than four years in prison in federal district court in Miami, Florida, the Department[Read More…]
Splint Supplier and Its President to Pay Over $10 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 18, 2015. Maryland-based splint supplier Dynasplint Systems Inc., and its founder and president, George Hepburn, have agreed to pay approximately $10.3 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by improperly billing Medicare for splints provided to patients in skilled nursing facilities, the Department of[Read More…]
32 Hospitals to Pay U.S. More Than $28 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Related to Kyphoplasty Billing
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 18, 2015. Thirty-two hospitals located throughout 15 states have agreed to pay the United States a total of more than $28 million to settle allegations that the health care facilities submitted false claims to Medicare for minimally-invasive kyphoplasty procedures, the Justice Department announced today. The Justice Department has[Read More…]
California Man Charged with Conspiring to Provide Material Support to Terrorism and Being ‘Straw Purchaser’ of Assault Rifles Ultimately Used in San Bernardino, California, Attack
CALIFORNIA–(ENEWSPF)–December 17, 2015. Enrique Marquez Jr., 24, of Riverside, California, a longtime friend of Syed Rizwan Farook, the male shooter in the San Bernardino, California, terrorist attack, was charged today with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists based upon his role in terrorist plotting with Farook in 2011 and[Read More…]
Pennsylvania Resident Charged with Providing Material Support to ISIL
PENNSYLVANIA–(ENEWSPF)–December 17, 2015. A Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, resident was arrested today on charges of conspiring and attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Jalil Ibn Ameer Aziz, 19, a U.S. citizen, is charged in a two-count criminal complaint that was unsealed today in[Read More…]
CEO of Florida Financial Firm Arraigned on Fraud Charges in $179 Million Sham Loan Scheme
CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–December 17, 2015. The chief executive of a Florida financial firm was arraigned today on federal fraud charges for allegedly selling $179 million in sham loans to a Milwaukee investment company. Nikesh Patel, the chairman and CEO of Orlando-based First Farmers Financial LLC, forged signatures and produced false documents[Read More…]
