FTC Order Requires Google to Change its Mobile App Billing Practices to Ensure Consumers’ Consent is Obtained Before Charges Levied Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 5, 2014. Google Inc. has agreed to settle a Federal Trade Commission complaint alleging that it unfairly billed consumers for millions of dollars in unauthorized charges incurred by[Read More…]
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Georgia ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Convicted of Filing False Liens Against Federal Officials
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 5, 2014. A federal jury in Omaha, Nebraska, found a Pelham, Georgia, man guilty late yesterday of seven counts of conspiracy to file and filing false liens against two U.S. District Court judges, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Nebraska, two Assistant U.S. Attorneys and an Internal[Read More…]
Suspended Physician Pleads Guilty To Illegally Dispensing Oxycodone And Falsely Billing Medicare In Undercover Probe
CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—September 4, 2014. A suburban physician whose medical license was suspended after he was arrested earlier this year pleaded guilty today to health care fraud and illegally prescribing controlled substance medications. The defendant, SATHISH NARAYANAPPA BABU, who owned Anik Life Sciences Medical Corp., admitted that he illegally prescribed oxycodone and[Read More…]
New Jersey Man Pleads Guilty to Operating Fraudulent Visa and Payroll Scheme to Facilitate Illegal Immigration
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 4, 2014. A New Jersey man pleaded guilty today to orchestrating an eight-year scheme to falsify employment certifications to facilitate the illegal entry of Indian immigrants into the United States and to filing a false tax return. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal[Read More…]
Former Suburban Chiropractor and His Wife Sentenced to Federal Prison for $1 Million Health Insurance Fraud Scheme
CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—September 3, 2014. A former suburban chiropractor and his wife, who was a fitness instructor and personal trainer, were sentenced to federal prison terms for engaging in a $1 million health insurance fraud scheme that continued for a year after they were indicted in 2011. WENDY CARR, 43, was sentenced[Read More…]
New England Compounding Center Supervising Pharmacist Arrested at Logan International Airport
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 4, 2014. A Canton, Massachusetts, man was arrested today at Boston’s Logan International Airport in connection with the ongoing criminal investigation of New England Compounding Center (NECC) by the Justice Department’s Civil Division and U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts. Glenn Adam Chin, 46, was attempting to board a plane to Hong Kong[Read More…]
U.S. and Indiana Enter into Settlement for $26 Million Cleanup in East Chicago, Indiana
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 3, 2014. Under a proposed settlement reached with the United States and the state of Indiana, the Atlantic Richfield Company and E.I. Du Pont de Nemours and Co. (DuPont) will pay for an estimated $26 million cleanup of lead and arsenic contamination in parts of a residential neighborhood[Read More…]
United States Settles with Costco to Cut Ozone-Depleting and Greenhouse Gas Refrigerant Emissions Nationwide
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 3, 2014. Costco Wholesale Corporation, one of the nation’s largest retailers, has agreed to cut its emissions of ozone-depleting and greenhouse gases from leaking refrigeration equipment at more than half of its stores nationwide. In the settlement announced today by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department[Read More…]
Maryland MS-13 Member Pleads Guilty in Violent Racketeering Conspiracy
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 2, 2014. A Maryland MS-13 gang member pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise known as the La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, and acknowledged his involvement in attempted murder and extortion in furtherance of MS-13. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice[Read More…]
Trans Energy Inc. to Restore Streams and Wetland Damaged by Natural Gas Extraction Activities in West Virginia
Company Will Also Pay $3 Million Civil Penalty to Resolve Alleged Clean Water Act Violations Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 2, 2014. The Department of Justice, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) today announced a settlement with Trans Energy Inc., requiring the oil and[Read More…]
