Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 18, 2014. The Justice Department announced today that it has entered into a settlement agreement with the Ganado Unified School District in Ganado, Ariz., to ensure that its English Language Learner (ELL) students have equal opportunities to participate in its educational programs, as mandated by federal law.  The[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 18, 2014. Vector Planning and Services Inc. (VPSI), an information technology, systems engineering, program management and consulting firm headquartered in Chantilly, Va. , has agreed to pay the government $6.5 million to settle False Claims Act allegations that the company inflated claims for payment under several Navy contracts,[Read More…]

Beverly Hills Resident the Latest in Series of Defendants Charged with Concealing Accounts at Israeli Banks Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 14, 2014. Monajem Hakimijoo, also known as Manny Hakimi, of Beverly Hills, Calif., pleaded guilty on Feb. 13, 2014, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California to filing[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 14, 2014. Earlier today at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, N.Y., Akbar Ahmad Sherzai, 49, of Centreville, Va., an independent contractor for a trucking company operating in Afghanistan that was responsible for delivering fuel to U.S. Army installations, pleaded guilty to his role in offering a U.S. Army[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 14, 2014. Three individuals charged in connection with operating a series of fraudulent business opportunity companies pleaded guilty this week in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.  Mitchell Berman (aka Brian Griffin) of Boca Raton, Fla., and Robert Gallo (aka Bobby Pace, Vincent Pastone,[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 14, 2014. Jose A. Santiago, 36, of Springfield, Mass., was sentenced yesterday in Providence, R.I., to serve 40 years in prison for his role in the September 2010 armed robbery and murder of Woonsocket, R.I., gas station manager David D. Main. Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of[Read More…]

Silver Spring, Maryland—(ENEWSPF)—February 13, 2014. Two individuals today were arraigned for charges that they, among other things, smuggled adulterated and misbranded prescription cancer treatments from Turkey and other countries into the United States and conspired to defraud the United States and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The drugs did[Read More…]

Company Agrees to Pay $425 Million Criminal Fine Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 13, 2014. Bridgestone Corp., a Tokyo, Japan-based company, has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $425 million criminal fine for its role in a conspiracy to fix prices of automotive anti-vibration rubber parts installed in cars sold in[Read More…]

Remedy Would Require Bazaarvoice to Sell All PowerReviews Assets; Provide Syndication Services to the Divestiture Buyer; Remove Trade-Secret Restrictions for Employees Hired by the Divestiture Buyer Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 12, 2014. The Department of Justice today submitted to the court a proposed remedy to address Bazaarvoice Inc.’s unlawful acquisition of PowerReviews[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 12, 2014. MPRI Inc. has agreed to pay $3.2 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false labor charges on a contract to support the Army in Afghanistan, the Justice Department announced today.  MPRI is a Chantilly, Virginia-based company. “We will not tolerate contractors that bill for work[Read More…]