Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 1, 2015. First Tennessee Bank N.A. has agreed to pay the United States $212.5 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly originating and underwriting mortgage loans insured by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Federal Housing Administration (FHA) that[Read More…]
Law and Order
Two Individuals Plead Guilty to Conspiring to Defraud Consumers through Fraudulent Debt Relief Services Firms
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 1, 2015. Two individuals pleaded guilty today for their roles at fraudulent debt relief services companies that offered to settle credit card debts but instead took victims’ payments as undisclosed up-front fees, the Justice Department and U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) announced. Athena Maldonado, 30, and Christopher Harati,[Read More…]
Suburban Man Indicted For International Parental Kidnapping
CHICAGO ―(ENEWSPF)–June 1, 2015. A Skokie man was indicted last week for international parental kidnapping of his three children and traveling with them to Turkey without their mother’s consent, permission or knowledge. MURTAZA ALI, 44, of Skokie, was charged with one count of international parental kidnapping by a federal grand[Read More…]
Park Forest Police Blotter Reports for June 1, 2015
The Park Forest Police Station. (Photo: Gary Kopycinski) 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[Read More…]
Health Care Provider Sentenced To 75 Months For $2.5 Million Health Care Fraud
CHICAGO ―(ENEWSPF)–June 1, 2015. A former owner and operator of Selectcare Health, Inc., a provider of outpatient physical and respiratory therapy located in Park Ridge and Skokie, was sentenced to federal prison for engaging in a $2.5 million health care fraud scheme. Ankur Roy, 38, of Miami Beach, Florida, was[Read More…]
Rockford Man Charged In Federal Court With Drug Offense
ROCKFORD —(ENEWSPF)–May 29, 2015. A Rockford, Ill. man was charged yesterday in federal court with possessing with the intent to distribute narcotic drugs. ANTHONY ROSS, 34, of Rockford, Ill., was charged with possessing with the intent to distribute cocaine, cocaine base (crack cocaine), and heroin on May 28, 2015. According[Read More…]
Drug Trafficker Sentenced To 20 Years In Federal Prison For Supervising Sales Of Over 30 Kilos Of Heroin On City’s West Side
CHICAGO ―(ENEWSPF)–May 29, 2015. The leader of a drug trafficking organization who created and managed a heroin distribution operation run via a hotline telephone between 2008 and 2012 on the city’s west side was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison yesterday, federal law enforcement officials announced. The defendant, PIERRE[Read More…]
Largest Drug Trafficker From Shuttered Underground Silk Road Website Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison
Chicago –(ENEWSPF)–May 29, 2015. A drug trafficker who used the illicit website “Silk Road” for worldwide drug sales was sentenced yesterday to 10 years’ imprisonment for selling millions of dollars’ worth of illegal drugs for bitcoins. The defendant, Cornelis Jan Slomp, 23, of Woerden, the Netherlands, pled guilty in April[Read More…]
Former Senate Staffer Charged with Wire Fraud
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 28, 2015. A former staff member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation was charged by indictment in the Eastern District of Virginia with defrauding at least three women of approximately $500,000, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and[Read More…]
Garden State Cardiovascular Specialists P.C. Agrees to Pay $3.6 Million for Allegedly Submitting False Claims to Federal Health Care Programs
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 28, 2015. Garden State Cardiovascular Specialists P.C. (Garden State), a cardiology practice which owns and operates several facilities in New Jersey under the name NJ MedCare/NJ Heart, has agreed to pay more than $3.6 million to resolve allegations that its facilities falsely billed federal health care programs for[Read More…]
