Settlement Provides Over $27 Million to Ensure Equal Lending Services to Predominantly Black and Hispanic Communities Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 24, 2015. The Justice Department and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) filed a consent order today to resolve allegations that Hudson City Savings Bank (Hudson City) engaged in a pattern or practice[Read More…]
Law and Order
Former Downtown Nightclub Bouncer Arrested on Charges of Operating Illegal Steroid Lab out of His Oak Lawn Home
CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–September 24, 2015. An Oak Lawn man was arrested today on federal charges that he imported anabolic steroids from China and distributed them to large-scale suppliers in the Chicago area. JOSEPH T. PALERMO, 33, imported anabolic steroids, human growth hormone and pharmaceuticals from outside the United States for approximately[Read More…]
Chicago Man Charged in Connection with the Murder of Sheila Von Wiese in Bali, Indonesia
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–September 23, 2015. A Chicago man has been charged for conspiring with his cousin and cousin’s girlfriend to kill a U.S. citizen at a resort in Bali, Indonesia, in August 2014, according to a criminal complaint unsealed in federal court in Chicago today. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of[Read More…]
Medical Biller Sentenced to 45 Months in Prison for Role in $4 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–September 18, 2015. The medical biller of a Chicago-area visiting physician practice was sentenced today to 45 months in prison for her role in a $4 million health care fraud scheme. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Zachary T. Fardon of the[Read More…]
United States Intervenes in False Claims Act Lawsuit against Mississippi Hospital, Two Individuals and Management Company for Overcharging Medicare Program
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 18, 2015. The United States has intervened in a lawsuit and filed a complaint against H. Ted Cain, Julie Cain, Corporate Management Inc. and Stone County Hospital Inc. for submitting false claims to the Medicare program by knowingly charging excessive and ineligible expenses from 2002 to the present. [Read More…]
Founder of West Suburban Investment Firm Indicted for Embezzling Client Funds in $3.9 Million Fraud Scheme
CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–September 18, 2015. The founding member of a Geneva investment firm used client funds to trade his own stocks and to purchase a yacht and luxury vehicle for himself, according to a federal indictment announced today. STEPHEN C. BROWERE, the founder and principal of Geneva-based Stephens Capital Management Inc.,[Read More…]
Lexington, South Carolina, Man Indicted for Misprision of a Felony and Making False Statements Relating to Mother Emanuel AME Church Shooting
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 18, 2015. Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Civil Rights Division, and U. S. Attorney Bill Nettles of the District of South Carolina announced today an indictment charging Joseph Carlton Meek, 21, of Lexington, South Carolina, with misprision of a felony and making false[Read More…]
Attorney General Madigan: Nine Individuals Charged in Multi-million Dollar Liquor Store Sales Tax Fraud
“Operation Seven & Seven” targets sales tax evasion and interstate liquor bootlegging Chicago —(ENEWSPF)—September 17, 2015. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced charges against nine Chicago liquor store operators as part of a sweep to crack down on sales tax evasion and interstate liquor bootlegging. “Operation Seven & Seven” is[Read More…]
Interior, Justice Departments Announce $940 Million Landmark Settlement with Nationwide Class of Tribes and Tribal Entities
Ramah Navajo Chapter v. Jewell Resolves Historic Contract Support Cost Lawsuit with Tribes Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 17, 2015. The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of the Interior (Interior) today announced a $940 million proposed settlement with a nationwide class of Native American Tribes and tribal entities that, if[Read More…]
Minnesota Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to ISIL
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF0–September 17, 2015. Zacharia Yusuf Abdurahman, 20, of Columbia Heights, Minnesota, pleaded guilty to conspiring with at least eight other individuals to travel to Syria in an effort to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization. Assistant Attorney[Read More…]
