News from January 2022
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
The United States has designated eight DPRK-linked individuals and entities under Executive Order 13382, which targets proliferators of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and WMD delivery systems.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
Mary Lois Cossey, age 55, of Munster, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Philip P.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
The Justice Department today announced the retirement of Clifford White, the Director of the Justice Department’s U.S. Trustee Program (USTP), which oversees the administration of bankruptcy cases, effective March 31, 2022.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
An indictment was unsealed on Friday charging a Maryland security guard with six counts of tax evasion.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
Steven Michael Braithwaite, Adam Thomas Braithwaite and their company Nebraska Railcar Cleaning Services LLC (NRCS) were sentenced today in Omaha, Nebraska, for willful violations of worker safety standards that resulted in two worker deaths, knowing violations of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) involving hazardous waste and knowing endangerment to others, knowing submission of false documents to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and perjury.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
A former Acting Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Inspector General (DHS-OIG) pleaded guilty today to federal charges stemming from the theft of proprietary software and sensitive databases from the U.S. government.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
A Florida man pleaded guilty today in the Southern District of Florida to a $6.9 million conspiracy to defraud Medicare by paying kickbacks and bribes to obtain doctors’ orders for medically unnecessary lab tests that were then billed to Medicare.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
Conduent Education Services LLC, fka Xerox Education Services LLC, dba ACS Education Services LLC (CES), a contractor that serviced student loans for lenders under the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFEL), has agreed to pay $7.9 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting or causing the submission of false claims to the Department of Education.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
A Florida woman pleaded guilty today to obstructing a 2017 regulatory inspection in connection with an alleged scheme to fraudulently falsify clinical drug trial data.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
Justice Department’s Antitrust Division and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) launched a joint public inquiry aimed at strengthening enforcement against illegal mergers.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
Tina Soper, of Wheeling, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, First Assistant United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
Two Durham, North Carolina, tax preparers have pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States in connection with a scheme that involved preparing and filing false tax returns.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
A new initiative to combat health care fraud in West Virginia was launched today in Wheeling, according to United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NNAMDII ROSS, 34, of Norwich, was sentenced today via videoconference by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall to 48 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing ammunition.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
Antonio Castellanos, 38, of Whittier, was sentenced today to nine years in prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine from Mexico destined for Modesto, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
An Elizabeth City man was sentenced Friday to 144 months in prison for distributing cocaine, cocaine base (crack), and fentanyl. On June 23, 2021, Maurice Dwight Toxey pled guilty to the charges.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
A criminal Information filed today charges Melissa Goodwin, 55, of Nashville, Tennessee, with wire fraud in relation to a fraudulent scheme in which she embezzled over $3.7 million from the T.J.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced today that Samuel Colby, 39, of Springfield, Vermont was arrested Friday evening for the January 8, 2022 robbery of the 802 Credit Union in Springfield, Vermont.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
Anthony Giovanni Montanelli and his father, Steven John Montanelli each pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud in connection with a scheme to divert medical equipment owned by Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Health Plan, Inc. (Kaiser) for use in their own San Jose-based company, announced United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Craig Fair.
