Pacific Pipeline Systems Will Also Discontinue Use of 70 Miles of Pipeline WASHINGTONPacific Pipeline Systems LLP, a Long Beach, California-based oil transport company, has agreed to pay a $1.3 million civil penalty and discontinue the use of a section of…

Defendants Arrested in Las Vegas and Miami; 21 Search Warrants Executed in United States and United Kingdom WASHINGTONTwenty-two executives and employees of companies in the military and law enforcement products industry have been indicted for engaging in schemes to bribe…

The first medical teams on the ground in Haiti from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services are providing technical assistance at the GHESKIO Clinic in the capital, Port-au-Prince. They will begin basic and acute medical care in the…

A C-130 Hercules from the 79th Rescue Squadron sits on the runway Jan. 14, 2010, at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. Another C-130 from the squadron participated in a Haitian relief mission during the evening of Jan. 13 in Port-au-Prince,…

WASHINGTONThe United States has filed a civil False Claims Act complaint against drug manufacturer Johnson & Johnson (J&J) of New Brunswick, N.J., and two of its subsidiaries, Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems Inc. The complaint…

by John J. Kruzel American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- Air Force special force operators in Haiti have rescued seven survivors of the massive Jan. 12 earthquake that continues to wreak havoc on the country in its wake, according…

Victims Describe Ordeals of Loss after ËœUp-Close Meetings with Fraudster LOS ANGELESAfter hearing from 15 victims who described the ramifications of losing their life savings, a federal judge yesterday sentenced an Orange County man to 159 months in prison for…

Phoenix, Arizona - Douglas Ross Zuber, 51, of Scottsdale, has been sentenced in Maricopa County Superior Court to six years in prison and seven years of probation. He must also pay $6,196,985 in restitution to Harvard Investments, Inc., in Scottsdale.…

Defendant Faces Life in Prison if Convicted WASHINGTON Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian national, was charged today in a six-count criminal indictment returned in the Eastern District of Michigan for his alleged role in the attempted Christmas day bombing…

East St. Louis, IL The U.S. Marshals Service is currently seeking Rodney Lamont Brown, Thomas Artin Glaab, and Miguel Robles-Moya, federal prisoners who escaped today from the Tri-County Detention Center in Ullin, IL. No details on their method of escape…

BOSTON, MAA Framingham man was arrested and charged today in federal court with perpetrating a large scale Ponzi type fraud scheme with approximately 130 victim/investors and losses of as much as $29 million. Richard Elkinson, age 76, of Framingham, MA,…

Governor Jan Brewer has requested that the Arizona Attorney General join Attorneys General of at least 13 other states in their review of the legality of the federal health care bill. Governor Brewer has condemned the federal health package and…