FLORIDA – A Florida hospital agreed to pay $85 million as part of a settlement for billing Medicare for certain services by physicians who have a financial relationship with the hospital, officials announced…
Category: American Justice
Feds: Deaths from Heroin Overdose up 45 percent; Border Seizure of Heroin Up 320 Percent in Last Five Years
WASHINGTON D.C. – Deaths from heroin overdose are on the rise at an alarming rate, said the nation’s chief prosecutor. Between 2006 and 2010, deaths as a result of heroin overdose increased…
Two Former Law Enforcement Officers Plead Guilty to Trying to Sell Heroin to Inmates
PUERTO RICO – Two former law enforcement officers who attempted to sell smuggled heroin to inmates were given prison sentences on Thursday, according to federal prosecutors. Joel Torres-Velazquez, 49, of Guánica, Puerto…
Three Plead Guilty to Growing Pot, Seriously Damaging Ecosystem of a California Conservation Area
SAN FRANCISCO – Three Eureka, Calif. men plead guilty on Wednesday to growing marijuana in a national conservation area, and in doing so, caused serious damage to the environment, according to federal…
Two Texas Men Get Lengthy Prison Sentences for Trafficking in Methamphetamine
LUBBOCK, TEXAS – Two members of a three-person methamphetamine trafficking ring were given lengthy prison sentences last week in U.S. District Court. Two of the defendants, Michael Armenta, 19, and Fernando Valenzuela-Ceballos, 26,…
Woman Indicted for Using Stolen Military IDs to Claim $2.2 Million in Tax Refunds
ALABAMA — A woman who worked at a hospital at Fort Benning Army Base in Georgia has been was indicted for allegedly stealing the IDs of military personnel, filing more than 1,000 false…
Aviation Fuel Employee Who Destroyed Evidence Pleads Guilty to Obstruction of Justice
KANSAS, CITY – A former employee of a Florida-based airline fuel supply service company, who destroyed files relevant to an investigation into fraud and anticompetitive conduct in the airline charter services industry, pleaded…
Me Tarzan, You Jane… But Where Did All the Monkeys Come from?
Monkeys don’t naturally occur in the United States. The closest they get is Mexico, where you might see spider monkeys and howler monkeys in and around the Yucatan. But the population of…
Sixteen Former Corrections Officers Now Convicted of Beating an Inmate
MARYLAND – Sixteen former corrections officers from a Maryland state prison have now been convicted for their roles in three brutal assaults against an inmate and coordinated efforts to cover up the…
Texas Man Charged With Severely Beating a Gay Man Who He Met on the Internet
TEXAS – A 19-year-old man who was charged with severely beating a gay man he had meet on the Internet made his first court appearance in U.S. District Court on Thursday, federal…
Former Deputy Sentenced to Prison for DUI Plot
“A former Contra Costa County sheriff’s deputy was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison Wednesday for taking a bribe to arrest two men for drunken driving in a plot to tarnish…
Bank Teller Who Opened Accounts to Receive Electronic Fraudulent Tax Refunds is Sentenced
ALABAMA — A former bank teller who used her position to open banks accounts in other people’s names to receive electronic fraudulent tax refunds was sentenced to a year and nine months…