ABINGDON, VA (WJHL) – Former Bristol Virginia Utilitiesboard chair and former Bristol, Virginia mayor Paul Hurley, 74, pleaded guilty to fraud charges in federal court.
Paul Hurley pleaded guilty to mail fraud and perjury before a federal Grand Jury Monday morning. He faces up to 25 years in prison and has been ordered to pay up to a $500,000 fine.
After years of rampant abuses by undercover Bal Harbour police, the U.S. Justice Department is investigating the millions taken in by the officers who turned a money-laundering sting into a major cash enterprise, spending lavishly on travel and luxury hotels without making a single arrest.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago and the Internal Revenue Service carted away hundreds of confidential files last week of the Tri-County Task Force, including records that show the officers regularly withdrew large amounts of cash from the bank with no receipts to show where it went, according to people familiar with the investigation.
Federal prosecutors say the former CEO of a now-defunct Chicago health care company has pleaded guilty to fraudulently billing the government for $1.8 million.
Prosecutors said Friday that 44-year-Dike Ajiri of Wilmette pleaded guilty to one count of health care fraud. Prosecutors say the Chicago-based Mobile Doctors executive altered patient files so that the company could bill Medicare and the Railroad Retirement Board for patient visits at “the highest possible level.” They say he did this even though he knew the visits didn’t qualify for the maximum payments.
Four Sacramento-area residents were sentenced Thursday for their roles in a mortgage fraud scheme.
A federal jury in July found Olga Palamarchuk, 45, of Rancho Cordova, Pyotr Bondaruk, 44, of Sacramento, Vera Zhiry, 35, of Sacramento and Peter Kuzmenko, 37, of West Sacramento guilty of conspiracy to commit mail fraud related to a mortgage fraud conspiracy. Palamarchuk and Bondaruk were also found guilty of making false statements to a financial institution and money laundering, and Zhiry was also convicted of money laundering, according to a U.S. Attorney’s office news release.
U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley sentenced Palamarchuk to five years and 10 months in prison; Bondaruk, to five years and 11 months in prison; and Zhiry to three years and one month in prison. Kuzmenko was sentenced to five years and 11 months in prison, two years of which are to be served consecutively to the 19-year sentence he received in another mortgage fraud scheme.
For two years, investigators decoded text messages, conducted surveillance and leaned on informants to unravel a drug trafficking network that allegedly distributed heroin and methamphetamine in a city park and California prisons.
Prosecutors this week added a handful of charges against a Newport Beach lawyer who was indicted in September on allegations of stealing $4.7 million from his clients instead of investing the money as promised.
A new indictment by a federal grand jury on Tuesday alleges that Stephen Young Kang, 46, stole an additional $1 million from three clients who wanted to invest it in a way that would help them secure visas to the United States.
A Texas lawyer faces criminal charges after he was accused of submitting thousands of false claims for damages from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Robert McDuff, a lawyer for San Antonio attorney Mikal Watts, confirmed Wednesday that Watts was indicted in Mississippi and will appear in court Oct. 29 in Gulfport.
“I look forward to a speedy trial and the opportunity to prove to a jury that I am not guilty of any crimes,” Watts said in a statement.
McDuff said the indictment is sealed and he wouldn’t discuss the specific charges against Watts. He said they are related to allegations that Watts committed fraud or forgery when he claimed to represent 44,000 clients in litigation against BP PLC.
was once a rising star in the Republican party and was getting noticed by the governor at conservative gatherings is heading to prison for more than three years for money laundering.
Thad Viers’ three-year fall from grace hit a new bottom Tuesday as he was sentenced in federal court in Florence to 37 months in prison and ordered to pay back $875,000.
ALEXANDRIA, VA—Wayne Shelby Simmons, 62, of Annapolis, Maryland, a former occasional on-air commentator who appeared on a cable news network, was arrested today after being indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of major fraud against the United States, wire fraud, and making false statements to the government.
According to the indictment, Simmons falsely claimed he worked as an “Outside Paramilitary Special Operations Officer” for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1973 to 2000, and used that false claim in an attempt to obtain government security clearances and work as a defense contractor, including at one point successfully getting deployed overseas as an intelligence advisor to senior military personnel. According to the indictment, Simmons also falsely claimed on national security forms that his prior arrests and criminal convictions were directly related to his supposed intelligence work for the CIA, and that he had previously held a top secret security clearance. The indictment also alleges that Simmons defrauded an individual victim out of approximately $125,000 in connection with a bogus real estate investment.
The number one fear for US residents is the corruption of government officials.
It beats fear of war, reptiles, cyber terrorism, and gun control – all of which appeared in the top 20 fears held by Americans.
This is according to a survey of 1,541 adults who were asked to rate how much they were scared of 88 different topics.