Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 28, 2013.  Tammy Dickinson, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, and Jocelyn Samuels, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, announced that an Independence, Mo., man and woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to violating the civil[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A former Chicago White Sox scouting executive was sentenced today to two years in federal prison for accepting approximately $440,000 in kickbacks from the signing bonuses and contract buyouts that two of the team’s Latin American scouts paid to secure 23 prospective players between December 2004 and February[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A former Chicago accountant was sentenced today to more than five years in federal prison for embezzling more than $4.3 million from trust accounts that he was supposed to be managing for the benefit of clients and also cheating the government of more than $1.7 million in federal[Read More…]

Companies Allegedly Submitted False Claims Under Defectively-priced Roofing Contracts Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 28, 2013.  Ohio-based RPM International Inc. and its subsidiary, Tremco Inc., have paid $60.9 million to resolve allegations that Tremco filed false claims in connection with two multiple award schedule (MAS) contracts with the General Services Administration (GSA) for[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- The chief executive officer of Chicago-based Mobile Doctors, which manages physicians who make house calls in six states, and one of its physicians in Chicago were arrested today on federal health care fraud charges. At the same time, federal agents executed search warrants at Mobile Doctors’ offices in[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 27, 2013. A Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty today to charges stemming from his participation in a scheme to hack into computer networks and sell access to those networks. The guilty plea was announced by Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S.[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 27, 2013. New York-based Imagimed LLC, the company’s former owners, William B. Wolf III and Dr. Timothy J. Greenan, and the company’s former chief radiologist, Dr. Steven Winter, will pay $3.57 million to resolve allegations that they submitted to federal healthcare programs false claims for magnetic resonance imaging[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 27, 2013. Three defendants who previously pleaded guilty in connection with an immigration services fraud scheme were sentenced in federal court, the Justice Department announced today.  The three defendants formerly worked at Immigration Forms and Publications (IFP), a Sedalia, Mo., company that falsely represented to consumers that IFP[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 27, 2013. Tennie White, the owner and operator of an environmental laboratory located in Jackson, Miss., was sentenced in federal court late yesterday day to 40 months in prison in connection with her conviction for faking laboratory testing results and lying to federal investigators, announced Gregory K. Davis,[Read More…]