WASHINGTON The owner of a Miami-based Medicare billing company has been charged with submitting $170 million worth of fraudulent bills to the Medicare program, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta…

Locally, Operation Puma Has Seized 277 Kilograms of Cocaine, 900 Pounds of Marijuana, and Nearly $2,500,000 in U.S. Currency DALLAS, TX --- The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the United States Attorneys Office for the Northern District of Texas today…

I thought I would start off this column on a bright note and let folks know that our recent rains have added about a foot of water to Roosevelt Lake. Much of the surrounding areas have been inundated with moisture,…

Two Coconspirators Also Charged BROOKLYN, N.Y. Roslynn R. Mauskopf, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and Mark J. Mershon, Assistant Director-in-Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Division, announced the guilty plea of Timothy Donaghy, age…

WASHINGTON -- A federal grand jury in Phoenix returned an indictment charging a commercial refrigeration company and its co-owner with participating in a conspiracy to rig bids on contracts for the installation of commercial refrigeration equipment in Safeway Inc. grocery…

WASHINGTON Three additional defendants were sentenced in federal court this week for their roles in a widespread bribery and extortion conspiracy which operated from January 2002 through March 2004, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division announced.…

WASHINGTON Miami-based American Express Bank International has entered into a deferred prosecution agreement on charges of failing to maintain an effective anti-money laundering program and will forfeit $55 million to the U.S. government, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of…

Pulice Construction is conducting an investigation in coordination with the Arizona Department of Transportation on the cause of a construction incident that occurred on the morning of Thursday, August 9, in a construction zone along the Red Mountain Freeway (Loop…

Warning Follows Bacterial Illness Outbreak The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to eat raw oysters harvested from an area of the southern tip of Hood Canal in Washington after an outbreak of illness caused by Vibrio…

Pulice Construction is conducting an investigation in coordination with the Arizona Department of Transportation on the cause of a construction incident that occurred this morning (Thurs., Aug. 9) in a construction zone along the Red Mountain Freeway (Loop 202), just…

EL PASO, TEXAS U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers performing anti-terror inspections at the Paso Del Norte border crossing in El Paso seized 513 pounds of marijuana Friday. A brother and sister from Mexico were taken into custody as…

The FBI continues to provide support to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the State of Minnesota in the bridge collapse investigation in Minneapolis. The federal investigation is being led by the National Transportation Safety Board. The Minneapolis Field…