Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 10, 2014. A former Guatemalan Special Forces officer was sentenced today to serve 10 years in prison for covering up his involvement in a 1982 massacre at Dos Erres, Guatemala. Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney André Birotte Jr. of[Read More…]
Law and Order
Government Settles False Claims Act Allegations Against Kentucky Addiction Clinic, Clinical Lab and Two Doctors for $15.75 Million
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 10, 2014. SelfRefind, a chain of addiction treatment clinics, PremierTox LLC, a clinical laboratory that performs urine testing and Drs. Bryan Wood and Robin Peavler, the owners of SelfRefind and PremierTox, have agreed to pay $15.75 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by[Read More…]
Former Bank of America Executive Pleads Guilty for Role in Conspiracy and Fraud Involving Investment Contracts for Municipal Bonds Proceeds
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 10, 2014. A former Bank of America executive pleaded guilty today for his participation in a conspiracy and scheme to defraud related to bidding for contracts for the investment of municipal bond proceeds and other municipal finance contracts, the Department of Justice announced. Phillip D. Murphy, the former[Read More…]
Sanborn Map Co. Pays $2.1 Million to Resolve Allegations of False Claims for Map Work Related to U. S. Military Convoy Routes in Iraq and Marine Corps Bases in U.S.
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 10, 2014. Sanborn Map Company Inc. has agreed to pay $2.1 million to the U.S. government to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims in connection with U. S. Army Corps of Engineers contracts, the Justice Department announced on Friday. Sanborn, headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colo., provides photogrammetric[Read More…]
Park Forest Police Blotter Reports for February 9, 2014
A winter past at the Park Forest Police Station. (Photo: Gary Kopycinski) Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)–Editor’s Note: We continue our reporting on news from police reports. Besides covering the many stories from around Park Forest that otherwise might go unnoticed, we want to bring more complete coverage of police reports than[Read More…]
New Mexico Farmer Sentenced to Prison for Tax Fraud, Fraudulently Collecting Farm Subsidies
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 7, 2014. Bill Melot, a farmer from Hobbs, N.M., was sentenced to serve 14 years in prison today to be followed by three years of supervised release for tax evasion, program fraud and other crimes, the Justice Department, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA)[Read More…]
Seven Defendants Indicted in Six Armed Robberies of Cell Phone Stores in Chicago Suburbs, Indiana and Downstate Illinois
CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—February 7, 2014. Seven defendants were indicted on federal charges for their alleged roles in a series of at least six armed robberies of cellular telephone stores last year that extended from suburban Chicago to Indiana and downstate Illinois. Two defendants, ERIC ROGERS and ERIC CURTIS, who allegedly directed a[Read More…]
Brothers Sentenced to Life in Prison for Murder in Aid of Racketeering Involving False Identification Document Ring
CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—February 7, 2014. Two brothers were sentenced today to life in federal prison for murder in aid of racketeering and related crimes they were convicted of after a seven-week trial in U.S. District Court last year. JULIO and MANUEL LEIJA-SANCHEZ, who operated a lucrative, black-market counterfeit identification document business in[Read More…]
Justice Department Sues to Shut Down Chicago Tax Preparer
Woman Allegedly Invents Businesses; Deducts Phony Business Expenses on Customer Returns Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 7, 2014. The United States filed a lawsuit today to bar Barbara L. Garrett, a Chicago tax return preparer, from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced. The civil injunction suit alleges that Garrett,[Read More…]
Former Chiropractor Convicted of Tax Fraud
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 7, 2014. Last night, following a trial that began on Jan. 29, 2014, a federal jury convicted David Moleski, formerly of Neptune, N.J., of 14 counts of mail fraud, one count of wire fraud, one count of corruptly endeavoring to obstruct and impede Internal Revenue laws and three[Read More…]
