Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 21, 2015. The former assistant administrator of Riverside General Hospital was sentenced today to 40 years in prison for his role in a $116 million Medicare fraud scheme. To date, 10 individuals have pleaded guilty or been convicted for their involvement in the scheme. Assistant Attorney General Leslie[Read More…]
Law and Order
U.S. Army Sergeant Sentenced to 51 Months in Prison for Taking Bribes While Deployed in Afghanistan
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 21, 2015. A sergeant with the U.S. Army was sentenced today to 51 months in prison for accepting bribes from Afghan truck drivers at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Gardez in Afghanistan, in exchange for allowing the drivers to take thousands of gallons of fuel from the base for[Read More…]
Former Sandwich, Illinois Business Owner Sentenced For Making A False Statement To A Financial Institution
ROCKFORD —(ENEWSPF)–May 21, 2015. A former Sandwich, Ill. business owner was sentenced yesterday in federal court by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala for making a false statement to a financial institution. The defendant, STEVEN J. MOORHOUSE, 62, was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison, to be followed by[Read More…]
Woodstock Woman Pleads Guilty To False Statements In Bankruptcy
ROCKFORD —(ENEWSPF)–May 21, 2015. SOULA APOSTOLOPOULOS, 46, of Woodstock, Ill., formerly of Barrington Hills, Ill., pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Philip G. Reinhard to making false statements in her bankruptcy case. She was indicted on October 21, 2014, along with her husband, DANIEL APOSTOLOPOULOS. According to the plea[Read More…]
Seventy-One Defendants Charged in Long-Running Investigation of Grape Street Crips Street Gang
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 20, 2015. Seventy-one people have been charged in connection with a long-running, coordinated federal, state and local investigation into the New Jersey set of the Grape Street Crips, a street gang allegedly responsible for violence and wide-spread drug trafficking in the northern New Jersey, announced U.S. Attorney Paul[Read More…]
ConAgra Subsidiary Agrees to Enter Guilty Plea in Connection with 2006 through 2007 Outbreak of Salmonella Poisoning Related to Peanut Butter
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—May 20, 2015. ConAgra Grocery Products LLC, a subsidiary of ConAgra Foods Inc., today agreed to plead guilty and pay $11.2 million in connection with the shipment of contaminated peanut butter linked to a 2006 through 2007 nationwide outbreak of salmonellosis, or salmonella poisoning, the Department of Justice announced[Read More…]
Park Forest Police Blotter Reports for May 20, 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…]
U.S. Settles with Marathon Petroleum Corporation to Cut Harmful Air Emissions at Facilities in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 19, 2015. The Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a settlement with Marathon Petroleum Corporation today that resolves various alleged Clean Air Act violations at ten Marathon facilities and requires Marathon to take steps to reduce harmful air pollution emissions at facilities in three[Read More…]
Chinese Professors Among Six Defendants Charged with Economic Espionage and Theft Of Trade Secrets for Benefit of People’s Republic of China
Chinese Professors Alleged to Have Stolen Valuable Technology from Avago Technologies and Skyworks Solutions to Benefit a PRC University Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 19, 2015. On May 16, 2015, Tianjin University Professor Hao Zhang was arrested upon entry into the United States from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in connection with[Read More…]
United Parcel Service Agrees to Settle Alleged Civil False Claims Act Violations
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 19, 2015. United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) has agreed to pay $25 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims to the federal government in connection with its delivery of Next Day Air overnight packages, the Justice Department announced today. UPS is a package delivery company based[Read More…]
