Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 18, 2013. The Justice Department announced today that it has reached an agreement with the Arapahoe County, Colo. Office of the Sheriff resolving allegations that the Office of the Sheriff violated the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). The investigation was initiated based on information[Read More…]
Law and Order
Additional Charges Brought Against Tax Return Preparers Previously Charged with Helping Clients Hide Millions in Offshore Israeli Banks
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 18, 2013. David Kalai and Nadav Kalai face additional charges after a federal grand jury in the Central District of California returned a second superseding indictment yesterday. The superseding indictment charged each with two counts of willfully failing to file a Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts[Read More…]
Two Compton Men Plead Guilty to Federal Hate Crime Charges Resulting from New Year’s Eve Attack on African-American Youths
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 17, 2013. Two Latino men associated with the Compton 155 street gang pleaded guilty today to federal hate crime charges related to a racially motivated attack on African-American juveniles at a residence in Compton, Calif. on New Year’s Eve. Jeffrey Aguilar, 20, who uses the moniker “Terco,” and[Read More…]
Former Town Creek, Ala., Police Officer Sentenced for Assaulting Arrestee
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 17, 2013. Brandon Shane Mundy, a former police officer of numerous law enforcement agencies, the most recent being the Town Creek, Ala., Police Department was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge R. David Proctor to serve five years in prison and three years of supervised release, and[Read More…]
Former Los Angeles-area Pastor Sentenced for Role in $11 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 17, 2013. A pastor and owner of a Los Angeles-area medical supply company was sentenced today for his role in a power wheelchair fraud scheme that defrauded Medicare out of more than $11 million. Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney[Read More…]
Boston Scientific and Subsidiaries to Pay $30 Million for Guidant’s Sale of Defective Heart Devices for Use in Medicare Patients
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 17, 2013. Boston Scientific Corp. and its subsidiaries, Guidant LLC, Guidant Sales LLC and Cardiac Pacemakers Inc. (Guidant), have agreed to pay $30 million to settle allegations that, between 2002 and 2005, Guidant knowingly sold defective heart devices to health care facilities that in turn implanted the devices[Read More…]
Switzerland: Nation Decriminalizes Cannabis Possession Offenses
Bern, Switzerland–(ENEWSPF)–October 17, 2013. Minor marijuana possession offenses have been reclassified as fine-only offenses under a new Swiss law that went into effect earlier this month. Under the law, the possession of up to 10 grams of cannabis by those age 18 or older is punishable by a fine. Those[Read More…]
Park Forest Police Blotter Reports for October 14, 2013
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 is reported by other[Read More…]
Attorney General Madigan: DuPage County Child Pornography Arrests Push Total to 50 Since Statewide Crackdown Began in 2010
Chicago–(ENEWSPF)–October 11, 2013. Two arrests on child pornography charges following separate raids this week in DuPage County bring to 50 the total arrests since 2010 in Operation Glass House, Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s statewide initiative to apprehend the most active offenders who download and trade child pornography online. “Our work,[Read More…]
Governor Pat Quinn Takes Clemency Action, October 11, 2013
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 11, 2013. Governor Pat Quinn today granted 65 and denied 124 clemency petitions. This action marks another step in a series of clemency decisions aimed at eliminating a backlog of more than 2,500 cases that built up during the previous administration. The 189 clemency petitions acted upon by Governor[Read More…]
