WASHINGTONAmerican pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. and its subsidiary Pharmacia & Upjohn Company Inc. (hereinafter together Pfizer) have agreed to pay $2.3 billion, the largest health care fraud settlement in the history of the Department of Justice, to resolve criminal and…

Beauty in the Night Billows of smoke and steam rise above Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida alongside space shuttle Discovery as it races toward space on the STS-128 mission. The STS-128 mission is the 30th…

Data Related to More Than 130 Million Credit and Debit Cards Allegedly Stolen WASHINGTON Albert Gonzalez, 28, of Miami, Fla., was indicted today for conspiring to hack into computer networks supporting major American retail and financial organizations, and stealing data…

WASHINGTON Exxon-Mobil Corporation, the worlds largest publicly traded oil and gas company, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Denver to violating the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) in five states during the past five years. The company has…

WASHINGTON A federal jury in San Juan, Puerto Rico, found four San Juan Municipal Police Officers guilty today of felony federal civil rights charges related to the fatal beating of Jose Antonio Rivera Robles, announced Loretta King, Acting Assistant Attorney…

Ehsanul Islam Sadequee Faces Up to 60 Years in Federal Prison ATLANTA, GAA federal jury has found Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, 23, of Roswell, Ga., guilty on all four counts of an indictment charging him with supporting terrorists and a foreign…

A federal jury convicted a prominent Beverly Hills real estate agent and a licensed real estate appraiser on federal charges for their roles in a massive mortgage fraud scheme that caused more than $40 million in losses to federally insured…

Consumers Got Fewer Calling Minutes Than Advertised, Were Charged Hidden Fees The Federal Trade Commission extended its crackdown in the billion-dollar prepaid calling card industry, asking a U.S. district court to permanently halt the illegal practices of a major calling…

ATLANTA Melissa Deaton Tesvich, 41, of Mobile, Ala., was sentenced to federal prison by U.S. District Judge Richard W. Story, for filing a false tax return in connection with her ex-husband's scheme to defraud Home Depot. United States Attorney David…

CHICAGO, ILA suburban businessman who offered and sold purported investments to hundreds of investors was charged in an information filed by the United States Attorney's Office with allegedly operating a more than 20-year Ponzi scheme that resulted in more than…

WASHINGTON Coordinated actions between the Departments of Justice, State and Treasury against the Gulf Cartel/Los Zetas drug trafficking organization, now known as the Company, are the latest in a series of efforts by the U.S. government to neutralize and dismantle…

DEA Agents and U.S. Marshals Escort FARC Commander From Plane NEW YORK - Gerardo Aguilar Ramirez, aka Cesar, a former front commander in the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC), has been extradited from…