Five California-based masonry subcontractors and two people paid the federal government $1.9 million to resolve allegations that they falsely claimed to be small businesses to land military construction contracts, federal officials announced…
Preliminary Hearings Are Like Mini-Trials for Criminal Defendants
A preliminary hearing is like a mini-trial where prosecutors put witnesses and/or evidence against a felony defendant. Unlike a trial where the legal standard is beyond a reasonable doubt, in a preliminary…
Third Defendant in an Indian Casino Bribery Case Pleads Guilty
LOS ANGELES – A Central California man who was hired to advise the Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians has become the third person to plead guilty to participating in a kickback scheme…
Ark. Police Chief Arrested for Using Excessive Force on Resident
Federal authorities on Monday arrested the police chief of Bull Shoals, Arkansas for using excessive force in the arrest of a resident and later, filing a false report to justify the use of…
Another Corrections Officer Pleads Guilty to Beating Inmate
MARYLAND – A U.S. District Judge sentenced a former officer at Roxbury Correction Institution to two years and six months in prison for his role in conspiring with other correction officers to…
Plastic Floating On The Ocean Is Harming 267 Species of Fish and Birds
At least 267 different species are known to have suffered from entanglement or ingestion of marine debris including seabirds, turtles, seals, sea lions, whales and fish. The scale of contamination of the marine environment…
Washington Doctor Sent to Prison for Drug Dealing
SEATTLE – A U.S. District Court judge sentenced a former hospital anesthesiologist to five years in prison on Thursday for drug dealing. Dr. Hieu Tu Le, 40, of Snohomish, Washington, a physician since…
Sheriff’s Investigator Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Handcuffed Salesman
ALABAMA – An Alabama criminal investigator plead guilty Friday to assaulting a handcuffed man at a Macon County jail, officials said. J. Keith McCray, a criminal investigator with the Macon County, Ala.,…
Businessman Lied To Feds About His Involvement In a Kickback Scheme to Get Contracts
NEW JERSEY – A co-owner of a Middlesex, N.J., supply company plead guilty today to one count of making a false statement, lying to about his involvement in a kickback scheme, according…
The American Life Insurance System Was Established in the 1700s
The American life insurance system was established in the mid-1700s, according to a 2009 article in Yale Journal of Medicine and Law. “The earliest forms of health insurance, however, did not emerge…
Largest Environmental Recovery By Federal Government Announced – A $5.15 Billion Settlement
WASHINGTON – The largest environmental recovery by the federal government was announced today by the U.S. Justice Department, ending a lawsuit The $5.5 billion settlement will be used to clean up decades of…
Fort Lauderdale Lawyer Sentenced to 10 Years for His Role in $1 Billion-Dollar Investment Scam
MIAMI – A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a longtime Fort Lauderdale lawyer to 10 years in prison and ordered him to pay $800 million as restitution to 30,000 victims who invested…