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Nov 4, 2009
By Lisa Daniel, American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON -- U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is believed to be the lone shooter of some 43 people on Fort Hood, Texas, and he survived being shot by a civilian police officer,…
Nov 3, 2009
Company Also Required to Implement Comprehensive Anti-Fraud Program and to Monitor its Agents MoneyGram International, Inc., the second-largest money transfer service in the United States, will pay $18 million in consumer redress to settle FTC charges that the company allowed…
Nov 3, 2009
CLEVELAND The Cuyahoga County Coroners Office has identified the first victim found at 12205 Imperial through DNA evidence. Cleveland Police Homicide Detectives, accompanied by a representative from Mental Health Services Violent Loss Response Team made a notification to the family…
Nov 2, 2009
David G. Friehling, the accountant for Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, LLC ("BLMIS"), has plead guilty in Manhattan federal court. Friehling pleaded guilty to a nine-count Superseding Information charging him with securities fraud, investment adviser fraud, four counts of filing…
Nov 2, 2009
The Federal Trade Commission has filed a complaint in federal court alleging that a catalog credit card operation deceptively marketed its card, failed to honor its refund policy, and charged up-front fees for a guaranteed line of credit. The defendants,…
Oct 31, 2009
Project Coronado results in 1,186 arrests and huge drug and money seizures against one of the worlds most violent drug cartels WASHINGTON In a 44-month multi-agency law enforcement investigation which targeted the La Familia Michoacana drug cartel, dubbed Project Coronado,…
Oct 28, 2009
Lewiston, N.Y. U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized more than 10,000 tablets of the drug ecstasy at the Lewiston, N.Y. bridge border crossing. The seizure resulted in the federal arrest Wednesday of Claudette Benjamin, a 47-year-old Canadian citizen of Brampton,…
Oct 20, 2009
CHICAGOA north suburban defense contractor has agreed to pay the United States a $2.5 million criminal fine and an additional $22.5 million civil judgment to settle federal allegations that it overcharged the government in a series of military contracts extending…
Oct 20, 2009
BOSTON Pharmacia & Upjohn Company, Inc., a subsidiary of Pfizer Inc (PfizerÂÂÂ) was sentenced in federal court for a felony violation of the Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act, for misbranding the drug, Bextra, with the intent to defraud or mislead.…
Oct 20, 2009
Defendants Charged with Submitting Approximately $26 Million in Fraudulent Medicare Claims WASHINGTONTwenty defendants, most of them residing in the Los Angeles area, have been charged in seven cases for allegedly participating in Medicare fraud schemes that resulted in more than…
Oct 6, 2009
An Orange County lawyer agreed to plead guilty to two felony charges related to a scheme in which he took more than $2 million awarded to employees of a company he sued in a class action and lost almost all…
Oct 6, 2009
LOS ANGELESThe largest number of defendants ever charged in a cyber crime case have been indicted in a multinational investigation conducted in the United States and Egypt that uncovered a sophisticated phishing operation that fraudulently collected personal information from thousands…