Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 14, 2015. Three subsidiaries of North Carolina-based Duke Energy Corporation, the largest utility in the United States, pleaded guilty today to nine criminal violations of the Clean Water Act at several of its North Carolina facilities and agreed to pay a $68 million criminal fine and spend $34[Read More…]
Law and Order
Long-Term Care Pharmacy to Pay $31.5 Million to Settle Lawsuit Alleging Violations of Controlled Substances Act and False Claims Act
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 14, 2015. PharMerica Corporation has agreed to pay the United States $31.5 million to resolve a lawsuit alleging that they violated the Controlled Substances Act by dispensing Schedule II controlled drugs without a valid prescription and violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims to Medicare for[Read More…]
Former Number Two of Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Charged with Obstructing Federal Investigation into Misconduct at County Jails
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—May 14, 2015. Paul Tanaka, 56, who was the second in command of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department (LASD) and William Thomas Carey, 56, who oversaw internal criminal investigations at the LASD, have been indicted on obstruction of justice charges for allegedly directing efforts to quash a federal investigation[Read More…]
Bolingbrook Man Sentenced To 24 Months For Attempting To Illegally Export Thermal Imaging Camera To Pakistan
CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–May 14, 2015. A Bolingbrook man was sentenced today to 24 months in federal prison for violating U.S. export laws by attempting to ship a thermal imaging camera from his company in Schaumburg to a company in Pakistan without obtaining a license from the U.S. Commerce Department, federal law[Read More…]
Postal Service Employees Arrested At O’Hare Airport For Opening And Stealing Contents From Packages Including Narcotics
CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–May 13, 2015. Two Postal Service employees were arrested today for allegedly opening and stealing the contents of Express Mail and Priority Mail parcels, which included narcotics. The defendants, Aramis Brown and Zaphronsia Wheeler, were arrested following an investigation by United States Postal Service Office of Inspector General (Postal[Read More…]
Owner of ‘Polygraph.Com’ Pleads Guilty to Training Customers to Lie During Federally Administered Polygraph Examinations
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 13, 2015. A former Oklahoma City law enforcement officer and owner of “Polygraph.com” pleaded guilty today to obstruction of justice and mail fraud for training customers to lie and conceal crimes during polygraph examinations. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Acting Assistant[Read More…]
Chicago FBI: Reward Increased in Search for Bandage Bandit
Chicago-(ENEWSPF)- Robert J. Holley, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced today the reward being offered for information leading to the arrest of a serial bank robber dubbed the Bandage Bandit is being increased to $10,000 following another Chicago bank[Read More…]
Justice Department Files Federal Lawsuit Against Park City Business for Violating the Employment Rights of Utah Naval Reserve Member
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—May 12, 2015. The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and U.S Attorney Carlie Christensen of the District of Utah announced today the filing of a complaint in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City against Veteran’s Trading Company (VTC), a business with headquarters in Park City, Utah. The complaint[Read More…]
Maryland Man Sentenced to 13 Years in Prison for Operating Ponzi Scheme That Cost Investors Over $28 Million in Losses
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 12, 2015. Garfield M. Taylor, 56, of Rockville, Maryland, was sentenced today to 13 years in prison and ordered to pay over $28.6 million in restitution for operating a Ponzi scheme that resulted in investors losing money they invested with Taylor and companies he controlled. The sentencing was[Read More…]
Three Members of al-Shabaab Plead Guilty to Conspiring to Provide Material Support to the Terrorist Organization
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 12, 2015. Earlier today, Madhi Hashi, 25, of Somalia, Ali Yasin Ahmed, 30, of Sweden, and Mohamed Yusuf, 32, of Sweden, pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, al-Shabaab. The guilty plea was announced by Assistant Attorney General for National Security[Read More…]
