Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 23, 2014. The owners of Out of Africa Adventurous Safaris were charged with conspiracy to sell illegal rhinoceros hunts in South Africa in order to defraud American hunters, money laundering and secretly trafficking in rhino horns, announced Sam Hirsch Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Environment[Read More…]
Law and Order
MCC Escapee Joseph Banks Sentenced To 36 Years In Federal Prison For Armed Bank Robberies
CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–October 22, 2014. A Chicago man who escaped from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in December 2012, just five days after he was convicted of armed robbery of two banks and attempting to rob two others in 2007 and 2008, was sentenced today to 36 years in federal prison. Approximately[Read More…]
ACLU Challenges Miami-Dade Housing Restriction Forcing Former Sex Offenders to Live by Railroad Tracks
Law Causes Many Former Offenders to Become Homeless MIAMI –-(ENEWSPF)–October 23, 2014. The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Florida filed suit against Miami-Dade County and the Florida Department of Corrections, seeking a permanent injunction against a housing ordinance that is extraordinarily difficult for former sex offenders to[Read More…]
Four Former Blackwater Employees Found Guilty of Charges in Fatal Nisur Square Shooting in Iraq
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 22, 2014. Four former security guards for Blackwater USA were found guilty today of charges stemming from the Sept. 16, 2007, shooting at Nisur Square in Baghdad, Iraq, that resulted in the killing of 14 unarmed civilians and the wounding of numerous others. The jury verdicts, in the[Read More…]
Dentist And Wife Charged With Bankruptcy Fraud
ROCKFORD —(ENEWSPF)–Octobr 21, 2014. A husband and wife, both formerly of Barrington Hills, Ill., were indicted today by a federal grand jury in Rockford on separate counts of making false statements in a bankruptcy case. The indictment alleges that DANIEL APOSTOLOPOULOS, 52, and SOULA APOSTOLOPOULOS, 45, each filed a Chapter[Read More…]
Corrections Officer And Three Inmates Among Seven Charged In Alleged Plot To Smuggle Contraband Into Cook County Jail
CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–October 21, 2014. Nearly three ounces of marijuana was confiscated after it was found hidden inside two sandwiches that a Cook County corrections officer allegedly tried to smuggle into the Cook County Jail last year in exchange for a $200 bribe. As a result of that seizure and an[Read More…]
Miami-Area Physician Assistant Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for $200 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 21, 2014. A Miami licensed physician assistant was sentenced today to serve 15 years in prison for participating in a Medicare fraud scheme involving approximately $200 million in fraudulent billings by American Therapeutic Corporation (ATC), a mental health company that was headquartered in Miami. Assistant Attorney General Leslie[Read More…]
Haroon Aswat Extradited from the United Kingdom to the Southern District of New York to Face Terrorism Charges
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 21, 2014. Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Carlin, United States Attorney Preet Bharara for the Southern District of New York, Assistant Director-in-Charge George Venizelos of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Commissioner William J. Bratton of the New York[Read More…]
Kentucky Cardiologists Agree to Pay $380,000 to Settle False Claims Act Allegations Based on Illegal Referrals
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 21, 2014. The Department of Justice announced today that two cardiologists based in London, Kentucky, have agreed to pay $380,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by entering into sham management agreements with Saint Joseph Hospital, also based in London, Kentucky, in exchange for[Read More…]
Suburban Dermatologist Convicted Of Cheating Medicare And Private Insurers Of $2.6 Million In Health Care Fraud Scheme
CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–October 20, 2014. A dermatologist in west suburban Lombard was convicted today of defrauding Medicare and private health insurers by submitting false claims for more than 800 patients resulting in losses totaling more than $2.6 million. The defendant, DR. ROBERT KOLBUSZ, falsely diagnosed patients with actinic keratosis, or sun-induced[Read More…]
