News from June 2011
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: NEWARK, NJ. - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a Newark grand jury returned an indictment today charging an alleged Newark-based drug dealer and three of his associates in connection with their alleged roles in a heroin organization which distributed kilogram-quantities of heroin in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: POINT REYES, CALIFORNIA - One of the premier destinations along California’s coast, Point Reyes National Seashore hosts over two million visitors every year. Visitors arrive from all over the world and from our own backyard. With over 140 miles of trails, opportunities to watch wildlife, and some of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: ATLANTA, GA. - Jason Cole Votrobek, 27, of Vero Beach Florida; Jesse Violante, 32, of Vero Beach, Florida; Roland Rafael Castellanos, 32, of Cartersville, Georgia; Tara Atkins, 33, of Cartersville, Georgia; and Dr. James Chapman, 61, of Macon, Georgia, were indicted and arrested on federal drug and money laundering charges for their respective roles in operating a so-called “pill mill" pain clinic which served as a front for the illegal distribution of addictive pain killers.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 MADRID - Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today joined Spanish First Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba to sign an agreement on scientific and technological cooperation - sharing best practices to prevent and detect threats in addition to strengthening research and development.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Robert Nicol was sentenced this week in connection with a series of Utah-based business opportunity fraud ventures, the Justice Department and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service announced. Nicol was sentenced by Miami Federal District Court Judge Patricia A. Seitz to a term of 125 months in prison and three years of supervised release. He was ordered to pay more than $5.2 million in restitution to victims of his offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The United States has sued an Orange County, Calif., man to stop him from selling bogus tax credits, the Justice Department announced today. According to the civil injunction complaint filed in a Los Angeles federal court, Lamar Ellis of Brea, Calif., fraudulently claims to have billions ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal court has permanently barred Aurelia Sanderson Johnson from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. The civil injunction order, to which Johnson consented, was signed by Judge Mark E. Fuller of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON — A former employee of the United Nations (U.N.) was arrested today for allegedly obtaining more than $100,000 in salary payments as a result of holding jobs at the U.N. and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) at the same time, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride for the Eastern District of Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The United States has sued a Seattle-area man to stop him from promoting an alleged tax fraud scheme, the Justice Department announced today. The government’s civil injunction complaint alleges that John Lloyd Kirk promotes the use of fabricated Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Forms 1099-OID to report fictitious income tax withholding. Kirk’s customers allegedly file federal tax returns claiming huge tax refunds based on the fake withholding.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: “O n Jan. 2, 2008, Attorney General Michael Mukasey appointed Assistant United States Attorney John Durham of the District of Connecticut to conduct a criminal investigation into the destruction of interrogation videotapes by the Central Intelligence Agency. On Aug. 24, 2009, based on information ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The former chairman and owner of Taylor, Bean & Whitaker (TBW) was sentenced today to 30years in prison and ordered to forfeit approximately $38.5million for his role in a more than $2.9 billion fraud scheme that contributed to the failure of TBW and Colonial Bank. At one time, TBW was one of the largest privately held mortgage lending companies in the United States and Colonial Bank was one of the 25 largest banks in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Rakesh Nathu, a Las Vegas physician, has agreed to pay the United States $5.7 million plus interest to settle allegations that he submitted false claims to federal health care programs for various radiation oncology services, including intensity modulated radiation therapy, the Justice Department ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Eight California real estate investors have agreed to plead guilty for their roles in two separate conspiracies to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Northern California, the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice today filed a lawsuit on behalf of Dave Axtell, a U.S. Air Force reservist, against James J. Williams Bulk Service Transport Inc. (JJW), its parent company Trans-System Inc., and another Trans-System subsidiary, System TWT Transportation Inc. The lawsuit alleges ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Pittsburgh man pleaded guilty today in federal court to charges of conspiring to conduct a racketeering enterprise, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney David J. Hickton of the Western District of Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced that it has reached a supplemental agreement with New Mexico officials to help ensure that military service members and U.S. citizens living overseas will have an opportunity to participate fully in the 2012 federal general election cycle. The agreement ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Academy for Educational Development (AED) in Washington, D.C., has agreed to settle allegations that the company submitted false claims to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in connection with two cooperative agreements under which AED provided foreign assistance ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Miami-area psychiatrist pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Miami for his part in a fraud scheme that resulted in the submission of more than $200 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare, the Department of Justice, FBI and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Wendy Treybig, 31, of Evening Shade, Ark., pleaded guilty today to obstructing an investigation related to the Jan. 14, 2011, firebombing of the home of an interracial couple in Hardy, Ark., the Department of Justice announced.
By Fed Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: Mark Bialek has been appointed inspector general of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, effective July 25. He will lead the Office of Inspector General staff in promoting the economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of the Board's and Bureau's programs and operations and in preventing and detecting waste, fraud, and abuse.
