News from September 2011
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Stephan Bekale and Jamal Ibraheem were sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., for conspiring to commit wire fraud as part of a matching funds scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride of the Eastern District of Virginia and Assistant Director in Charge James W. McJunkin of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit today on behalf of Michael Schutz, a member of the U.S. Army Reserves, against the city of Truman, Minn. The lawsuit alleges that Truman violated the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) by failing to properly reemploy Schutz and unlawfully moving to terminate his employment as a full-time police officer after he returned from military service in Kuwait.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A former Colombian maritime training instructor and a co-conspirator were sentenced to federal prison today for conspiring to transport thousands of kilograms of cocaine from various ports along the coast of Colombia to waiting vessels that transported the cocaine to the United States and other countries, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Alexander Otis Matthews, a Virginia real estate businessman, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison in connection with mortgage and investment schemes to obtain more than $12 million in fraudulent loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Mark D. Leitner was sentenced to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty in July to filing false liens against federal law enforcement employees and corruptly endeavoring to impede and impair the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Justice Department announced today. Northern District of Florida Senior District Court Judge Lacey A. Collier presided over the hearing at the U.S. District Court in Pensacola, Fla.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Hitachi-LG Data Storage Inc. has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $21.1 million criminal fine for its participation in a series of conspiracies to rig bids and fix prices for the sale of optical disk drives, the Department of Justice announced today. This is the department’s first charge resulting from its ongoing investigation into the optical disk drive industry.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice today announced a settlement with Morgan Stanley that requires Morgan to pay $4.8 million for violating the antitrust laws by entering into an agreement with KeySpan Corporation that restrained competition in the New York City electricity capacity market. The department said the agreement likely resulted in a price increase for electricity retailers, which, in turn, led to increased electricity prices for consumers.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - The United States has filed a lawsuit against Annie P. Williams to bar her from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. The government complaint in the civil injunction suit alleges that Williams, the former proprietor of tax preparation firm PPH ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Japanese freight forwarder has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $1.84 million criminal fine for its role in a conspiracy to fix certain fees in connection with the provision of freight forwarding services for air cargo shipments from Japan to the United States, the Department of Justice ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Harris County Commissioner Gerald R. Eversole and Houston-based real estate developer Michael D. Surface both pleaded guilty today in federal court in Houston to making false statements, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Special-Agent-In-Charge ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced today that C&F Mortgage Corporation of Midlothian, Va., will revise its pricing policies, conduct employee training and pay $140,000 as part of a settlement to resolve allegations that it engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination on the basis of race and national origin.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - LHC Group Inc. has agreed to pay $65 million, plus interest, to the federal government to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act for false home healthcare billings to the Medicare, TRICARE and Federal Employees Health Benefits programs, the Justice Department announced ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Two California real estate investors have agreed to plead guilty today for their roles in a conspiracy to rig bids and to commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Northern California, the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), together with its partners, the Departments of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Education, Health and Human Services and Treasury, today announced the selection of the Center for the Study of Social Policy as the Building Neighborhood Capacity Program (BNCP) Training and Technical Assistance Coordinator.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department filed a lawsuit today against Generations Healthcare, a healthcare provider with skilled nursing facilities throughout California , alleging that it engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination by imposing unnecessary documentary requirements on naturalized U.S. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Osman Norales, Genaro De La Fuente, Francisco Ramirez and Ulises Linares were indicted on charges of conspiring to defraud the United States, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. The indictment was unsealed in the Central District of California today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A settlement agreement has been reached for the cleanup of the Midnite Mine Superfund Site, located on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Northeastern Washington, the Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today. The 350 acre site, which is centered around a former open pit uranium mine, poses a potential threat to people’s health and the environment due to the presence of heavy metals and elevated levels of radioactivity.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department filed a lawsuit today against the developers, builders and designers of the Gateway Village Apartments, a 275-unit apartment complex in Salem, Ore., for violations of the Fair Housing Act. The lawsuit alleges that the defendants violated the law when they designed and constructed the complex with barriers that make it inaccessible to persons with disabilities.
By Commerce News Now | Sep 30, 2011
News Release: Acting Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank Remarks at Minority Enterprise Development (MED) Week Conference Thank you for the kind words, David [Hinson], and for your excellent leadership of the Minority Business Development Agency.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON — Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today announced four two-year cooperative agreements totaling $2,165,998 to consortia led by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois in Chicago, the National Organization on Disability in New York City, TransCen Inc. in Rockville, Md., and the ...
