Justice Department Announces Results of Operation Spring Cleaning
Union Leaders Convicted of Racketeering, Fraud, and Embezzlement of Union Dues
CEO of Iran Tech Company Arrested on Federal Charge of Supplying U.S. Equipment to Iran’s Nuclear and Military Establishment
Joint Law Enforcement Effort Disrupts Two Multi-State Drug Trafficking Operations; Nineteen Defendants Charged in Homeland Security Task Force Initiative
Morris County Man Arrested for Kicking and Biting ICE Deportation Officers
National News
May 5, 2009
WASHINGTONQuest Diagnostics Incorporated and its subsidiary, Nichols Institute Diagnostics (NID), have entered into a global settlement with the United States to resolve criminal and civil claims concerning various types of diagnostic test kits that NID manufactured, marketed and sold to…
May 5, 2009
NEW YORK Bashit Noorzai, a former Mujahideen warlord and strong ally of the Taliban, was sentenced last week to life in prison on heroin importation and distribution conspiracy charges. Noorzai was found guilty of the charges following a jury trial…
May 5, 2009
Jamaica, N.Y. - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at JFK International Airport arrested 20-year-old Mario Ramirez and 18-year-old Yenesky Martinez on Monday attempting to smuggle nearly nine pounds of cocaine from the Dominican Republic in sneakers. During the month…
May 5, 2009
Kellogg Company, the worlds leading producer of cereal, has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that advertising claims touting a breakfast of Frosted Mini-Wheats as clinically shown to improve kids attentiveness by nearly 20% were false and violated federal…
Apr 14, 2009
Blaine, Wash. - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Pacific Highway port of entry arrested a 53-year-old Surrey, British Columbia, man on for attempting to smuggle 107,339 tablets of Ecstasy worth more than $1 million into the United…
Apr 14, 2009
For Spellers Age 50+ CHEYENNE, WY AARP has announced a national call for entries for its 14th annual AARP National Spelling Bee. The spelling bee is open to anyone age 50+ with the exception of previous winners. Contestants will test…
Mar 11, 2009
Washington, D.C., The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based software manufacturer Quest Software, Inc. and three current or former officers for stock option backdating. The SEC's complaint alleges that Quest, its executive chairman Vincent Smith, its former…
Feb 24, 2009
NEW YORK - Paul Greenwood, 61, of North Salem, N.Y., and Stephen Walsh, 64, of Sands Point, N.Y., were arrested this morning on conspiracy, securities fraud and wire fraud charges. According to a three-count complaint, from at least 1996 through…
Feb 18, 2009
Iraqi Minister of Defense Abdul Qader Mohammad Jassim Al-Mafrji and Gen. Stephen R. Lorenz, Air Education and Training Command commander, speak through an interpreter during a briefing Feb. 18 about the training AETC can provide to the Iraqi air force.…
Feb 17, 2009
DALLAS Special agents and postal inspectors have arrested Richard Leon Goyette, a/k/a Michael Jurek, 47, at the airport in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on a charge in a federal complaint related to his mailing 65 threatening letters to financial institutions in…
Feb 17, 2009
The bomb bay of a B-1B Lancer is loaded and ready for another mission Jan. 29 at an air base in Southwest Asia. The B-1B is deployed from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, in support of operations Iraqi Freedom and…
Feb 17, 2009
Attorney Alexander Kaplan has been found guilty of participating in a multimillion-dollar mortgage fraud scheme. After a two-week jury trial in Manhattan federal court, Kaplan was found guilty on all eighteen counts in the Indictment against him. According to the…