Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 10, 2014. A former resident of Taiwan, who the United States has linked to the supply of weapons manufacturing machinery to North Korea, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to violate U.S. regulations regarding the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, announced Assistant Attorney General John Carlin for the[Read More…]
Law and Order
Second Vice President of Equatorial Guinea Agrees to Relinquish More Than $30 Million of Assets Purchased with Corruption Proceeds
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 10, 2014. The Department of Justice has reached a settlement of its civil forfeiture cases against assets in the United States owned by the Second Vice President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue that he purchased with the proceeds of corruption. Assistant Attorney General[Read More…]
Extendicare Health Services Inc. Agrees to Pay $38 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations Relating to the Provision of Substandard Nursing Care and Medically Unnecessary Rehabilitation Therapy
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 10, 2014. Extendicare Health Services Inc. (Extendicare) and its subsidiary Progressive Step Corporation (ProStep) have agreed to pay $38 million to the United States and eight states to resolve allegations that Extendicare billed Medicare and Medicaid for materially substandard nursing services that were so deficient that they were[Read More…]
Alleged Russian Cyber-Criminal Now Charged in 40-Count Superseding Indictment
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 9, 2014. A federal grand jury in Seattle returned a second superseding indictment late yesterday charging a Russian national with 11 additional counts and further detailing his alleged scheme to hack into businesses and steal credit card information for later sale over the Internet on “carding” websites. The[Read More…]
Defendant Pleads Guilty for Role in Brutal Sex Trafficking Ring
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 9, 2014. Acting Assistant Attorney General Molly Moran for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer for the Southern District of Florida announced today that Rafael Alberto Cadena-Sosa pleaded guilty in the Southern District of Florida to one count of conspiracy and one[Read More…]
Russian National Receives 18 Month Prison Sentence for Smuggling High-Tech Night Vision Technology to Russia
WILMINGTON, Del.—(ENEWSPF)—October 9, 2014. Dmitry Ustinov, of Moscow, Russia, 53, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 18 months in prison and 3 years supervised release, for conspiracy to export high-tech military technology, in violation of federal law, including the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and the International Traffic in[Read More…]
Manager of Three Los Angeles Medical Clinics Indicted in $4 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 8, 2014. An indictment was unsealed today charging two managers and operators of three Los Angeles medical clinics with Medicare fraud and conspiracy to pay illegal kickbacks for medical procedures that were never actually provided. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; Acting[Read More…]
Michigan Home Health Agency Owner Pleads Guilty in $22 Million Medicare Fraud Conspiracy
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 8, 2014. A former owner and manager of two Detroit-area home health care agencies has pleaded guilty in federal court for his role in a $22 million Medicare fraud conspiracy. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade of[Read More…]
Rockford Man Pleads Guilty To Bank Robbery
ROCKFORD–(ENEWSPF)–October 6, 2014. A Rockford man pleaded guilty today in Federal Court to bank robbery. PEDRO J. CORDERO, 52, of Rockford, Ill., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala to the robbery of BMO Harris Bank, N.A., 2510 S. Alpine Rd., Rockford, Ill., on July 12, 2014. Cordero[Read More…]
Costa Rican Woman Pleads Guilty to Human Smuggling Conspiracy
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 6, 2014. A citizen and resident of Costa Rica pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to smuggle more than 25 undocumented immigrants to the United States. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer of the Southern District of Florida,[Read More…]
