Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 13, 2013. Two health care clinic owners pleaded guilty today in connection with an $8 million health care fraud scheme involving the now-defunct home health care company Flores Home Health Care Inc. Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney Wifredo A.[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 13, 2013.  Michael Kerry Deevy, a Canadian citizen, was sentenced today in connection with a series of business opportunity fraud ventures based in Costa Rica, the Justice Department and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service announced.  Beginning in 2006, Deevy and his co-conspirators in Costa Rica are alleged to[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A La Grange Park man who had amassed a collection of tens of thousands of images and videos of child pornography was sentenced today to 12 ½ years in federal prison for transporting child pornography via computer. The defendant, Nathan Arger, 34, who was arrested in September 2011[Read More…]

BOSTON–(ENEWSPF)–August 12, 2013.  Following a two-month long trial in U.S. District Court a federal jury today convicted James J. Bulger, holding him responsible for the murder of 11 people, as well as numerous counts of extortion, money laundering, drug dealing, and firearms possession. After deliberating for over 32 hours, over[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 12, 2013. The Justice Department will not pursue federal criminal civil rights or other federal criminal charges against the United States Border Patrol (USBP) agent involved in the shooting incident that resulted in the death of Ramses Barron-Torres, the department announced on Friday.   Officials from the Civil[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 12, 2013.  The Justice Department will not pursue federal criminal civil rights or other federal criminal charges against the United States Border Patrol (USBP) agent involved in the shooting incident that resulted in the death of Carlos LaMadrid, the Department announced on Friday. Officials from the Justice Department’s[Read More…]

Government Alleges That Long-term Care Pharmacy Billed Medicare for Schedule II Controlled Substances That Were Dispensed Without a Valid Prescription Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 9, 2013.  The United States has filed suit against PharMerica Corp. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, the Justice Department announced today.  [Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 9, 2013.  The Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that Tomas Olazabal, of Fresh Meadows, N.Y., was arrested today following his indictment in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York on Aug. 8, 2013, on multiple tax crimes. According to the indictment,[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 9, 2013.  An Athol, Mass., man has been charged in a criminal information with engaging in a practice known as “swatting,” which involves making hoax emergency telephone calls in order to elicit an armed police response (from a SWAT team) for the purpose of harassing someone believed to[Read More…]

Indianapolis, IN-(ENEWSPF)- United States Attorney Joseph H. Hogsett announced August 7 the sentencing of Evansville resident Floyd Patrick Williams, age 48, to 15 years in federal prison following his admission that he attempted to produce child pornography. Hogsett said these results come as he continues Operation Community Watch, a new[Read More…]