CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–January 7, 2015. A Joliet area tax preparer pleaded guilty today to filing hundreds of false federal income tax returns for clients, causing the Internal Revenue Service to lose more than $5.3 million. The defendant, JEFFREY SHELBY, JR., 31, of Joliet, pleaded guilty at his arraignment after being[Read More…]
Law and Order
Former HUD Employee Sentenced to 26 Months in Prison for Theft of Over $843,000 of Government Money
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 17, 2015. Brian E. Thompson, 54, a former loan guarantee specialist for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, was sentenced today to serve 26 months in prison for a scheme in which he stole over $843,000 of government money. The sentencing was announced by U.S. Attorney[Read More…]
FBI Arrests Defendants Charged with Trafficking Heroin and Other Drugs in Jefferson County
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 7, 2015. FBI agents today arrested five of six Jefferson County, Alabama, men indicted by a federal grand jury in November on charges they operated an illegal organization trafficking heroin, cocaine, prescription painkillers and other drugs in the western part of the county. The sixth defendant already was[Read More…]
Two Brandon, Mississippi, Men Plead Guilty for Committing Hate Crimes Against African Americans in Jackson, Mississippi
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 7, 2015. Acting Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis for the Southern District of Mississippi announced that John Louis Blalack, 20, and Robert Henry Rice, 24, both from Brandon, Mississippi, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District[Read More…]
Multiple Arrests Announced in Large Illinois Drug Ring
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 7, 2015. U.S. Attorney Stephen R. Wigginton of the Southern District of Illinois announced today that 16 people were arrested for offenses relating to the production and distribution of methamphetamine in Marion and Clinton Counties on Jan. 6, 2015, following their indictment by a Federal Grand Jury sitting[Read More…]
Former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell Sentenced to Two Years in Prison for Public Corruption Scheme
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 6, 2015. The former Virginia Governor Robert F. McDonnell, 60, of Glen Allen, Virginia, was sentenced today to two years in prison for soliciting and obtaining payments, loans, gifts and other items from Star Scientific, a Virginia-based corporation, and Jonnie R. Williams Sr., Star Scientific’s then chief executive[Read More…]
Former Owner and President of Pennsylvania Consulting Companies Charged with Foreign Bribery
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 6, 2015. The former owner and President of Chestnut Consulting Group Inc. and Chestnut Consulting Group Co. (generally referred to as the “Chestnut Group”) was indicted by a federal grand jury today for his alleged participation in a scheme to pay bribes to a foreign official in violation[Read More…]
Former Acting HHS Cyber Security Director Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison for Engaging in Child Pornography Enterprise
Five Others Previously Sentenced to Substantial Prison Terms for Participation in the Same Tor-Network-Based Child Pornography Website Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 5, 2015. The former acting director of cyber security at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison today for engaging in a[Read More…]
Two Defendants Charged for their Role in an Attempted Coup in The Gambia
Defendants Charged with Conspiracy to Violate the Neutrality Act and Conspiracy to Possess Firearms in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 5, 2015. United States Attorney General Eric Holder, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger for the District of[Read More…]
Government Intervenes in Lawsuit Against Florida Cardiologist Alleging Unnecessary Peripheral Artery Interventions and Payment of Kickbacks
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 5, 2015. The government has intervened in two lawsuits against a Florida cardiologist, Dr. Asad Qamar, and his physician group, the Institute for Cardiovascular Excellence PLLC (ICE), alleging that Qamar and ICE billed Medicare for medically unnecessary peripheral artery interventions and paid kickbacks to patients by waiving Medicare[Read More…]
