LOS ANGELES A U.S. citizen who formerly resided in Turlock, California, and Auckland, New Zealand, was return to the U.S. by Tonga to face 11 counts of felony charges of federal wire…
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Pharmaceutical CEO Charged in $100 Million Fraud Scheme
FLORIDA The former chairman and CEO of a multinational pharmaceutical company was named in an indictment unsealed Friday in connection with a fraud scheme that caused over $100 million in losses. It…
Barrio Azteca Gang Associate Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Drug Trafficking and other Crimes
EL PASO, TEXAS A federal judge Thursday sentenced Luis Humberto Hernandez Celis, aka Pac, 32, of El Paso, to 20 years in prison for his involvement in several crimes including drug trafficking, according…
Feds: Wells Fargo Pays $4 Million for Illegally Repossessing Soldiers’ Cars
LOS ANGELES Justice Department reached a $4 million settlement with Wells Fargo Bank for illegally repossessing service members’ cars, officials announced Thursday. Wells Fargo illegally repossessed 413 cars owned by service members…
British Guilty of Traveling to U.S. to Have Sex with Pre-Teen Boys
LOS ANGELES A 70-year-old British man who traveled to the Coachella Valley, California to have sex with pre-teen boys pleaded guiltyWednesday to transportation of child pornography and agreed to a 13-year prison…
Ex-Cop Resigns After Attacking Homeless Man (Video)
HOUSTON A former Metro police officer was indicted Wednesday by a Harris County Grand Jury. Jarius Warren is charged with assault for the attack of a homeless man at a train station,…
Man Who Illegally Download the Movies, “The Revenant” and “The Peanuts Movie,” Sentenced
LOS ANGELES A man who plead guilty to copyright infringement for illegally posting screener versions of two movies – “The Revenant” and “The Peanuts Movie” – to a publicly accessible website was…
Pill Mill Doctor Charged with Illegally Prescribing Drugs, Health Fraud Totaling $9 Million
ALABAMA Federal prosecutors on Thursday charged a former north Alabama physician, who was the nation’s highest Medicare prescriber of opioid painkillers at the height of his practice, with illegally prescribing controlled substances…
Feds: Tijuana Man Allegedly Smuggled 6,000 Fentanyl Pills, Alarming Trend
SAN DIEGO A Tijuana man was arraigned Thursday in federal court on charges that he smuggled into the U.S. almost 6,000 pills containing the ultra-deadly drug fentanyl in a case that signals…
Former Airport Employee Sentenced for Using Flights to Smuggle Cocaine, Talked About Bombs
DALLAS A federal judge sentenced a 53-year-old Dallas man who admitted to his role in transporting cocaine on flights from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to 15 years and eight months in…
Men Involved in Filing at Least 12,000 Fraudulent Tax Returns Sentenced
WASHINGTON D.C. Two residents were sentenced Wednesday for their involvement in a far-reaching stolen identity refund fraud scheme in which they worked with others to seek over $700,000 in income tax refunds…
Exxon-Mobil to Pay $12 Million for 2011 Oil Spill into Yellowstone River
MONTANA The Departments of Justice and the Interior joined with the state of Montana to announce a proposed settlement with ExxonMobil Pipeline Company to resolve claims stemming from the July 2011 oil…