An Oklahoma veteran says the Veterans Administration stopped providing a needed service after she complained about potential fraud.
Betty Taylor said she is trying to live on her own the best she can. Her health has deteriorated in recent years, which makes minor housework a major chore. “I can’t stand up,” Taylor told Fox 25 at her home in Ada, “I fell three times in this house because of my legs.”
Taylor says her doctor with the VA ordered housekeeping services for her so she could continue living in her home. That arrangement lasted nearly a year before Taylor says it abruptly stopped. Her housekeeping services cut off after she complained about one of the employees sent to help her around the house.
NEWARK, N.J. — Attorneys for U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey filed notice Friday that they will appeal a judge’s rulings rejecting their arguments to dismiss his corruption indictment.
Last month a federal judge in Newark dismissed some bribery counts from the 22-count indictment against Menendez and co-defendant Salomon Melgen, but rejected most of Menendez’s arguments to dismiss the indictment. This week, the same judge rejected the Democrat’s remaining attempts to have the case thrown out.
A former Snohomish County sheriff’s sergeant admitted Thursday he ignored his duty and helped launder money he knew came from a multimillion-dollar prostitution operation that transformed roadside coffee huts into drive-through brothels.
Darrell O’Neill, 60, pleaded guilty to one count of felony conspiracy to commit money laundering and two counts of misdemeanor official misconduct. He faces up to a year in jail.
Thursday’s Snohomish County Superior Court hearing came roughly a week before O’Neill was scheduled to face trial on the more serious charge of second-degree promoting prostitution. That offense carried the prospect of a longer prison sentence because prosectors were alleging aggravating circumstances, including the deputy’s abuse of his position of trust and the amount of money involved.
According to Darren Rovell of ESPN.com, “a class-action lawsuit was filed in federal court in Manhattan on Thursday accusingDraftKings and FanDuel of negligence, fraud and false advertising.”
Kentucky resident Adam Johnson filed the case after it was revealed the two companies allowed employees to enter contests on the other’s site for the cash prizes available. Johnson reportedly deposited $100 in a DraftKings account.
KELOWNA – Vials containing the bacteria E. coli, apparently stolen from a medical laboratory, have been discovered at a transient camp near Munson Pond.
The unusual find by local bylaw officers prompted a call to Kelowna RCMP and a local hazardous material disposal company, who sent out personnel to retrieve the vials.
“It’s pretty common for us to find transient camps in that area, certainly through the summer months, but it’s not common to find stolen material from a lab,” director of protective services Rob Mayne says.
Mayne says some of his officers were on a regular patrol and had identified a transient camp in an isolated area near Benvoulin Road and KLO Road where they discovered the tent.
“They did what they normally do which is give a warning by deflating the tent and leaving a business card hoping they will voluntarily leave.”
CHICAGO—The former chief executive of the Chicago public school system will plead guilty to federal charges she received kickbacks and bribes in exchange for steering district contracts to a former employer, her lawyer said Thursday.
The indictment of Barbara Byrd-Bennett, announced by prosecutors earlier in the day, is the latest blow to the nation’s third-largest school system, which is facing a growing fiscal crisis. Ms. Byrd-Bennett resigned in late spring during the federal probe.
Federal prosecutors charged the 66-year-old with 15 counts of mail fraud and five counts of wire fraud in connection with the scheme in which two firms that train school administrators received more than $23 million in no-bid contracts. The two related firms, Supes Academy and Synesi Associates, and their former owners Gary Solomon and Thomas Vranas, were also charged in the indictment.
Federal prosecutors in Virginia have filed felony and misdemeanor charges against flooring giant Lumber Liquidators late Wednesday afternoon.
The company, which is headquartered in Toano, Va—in between Richmond and Newport News—has been under investigation by federal agents with Homeland Security Investigations for more than two years.
A bill of criminal information filed by federal prosecutors charged the company with one count of entry of goods by means of false statements and four counts of violations of the Lacey Act related to the transportation and importation of illegally harvested lumber.
WASHINGTON—A Miami physician was charged in an indictment unsealed today with participating in a Medicare fraud scheme that caused losses of more than $20 million.
Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer of the Southern District of Florida, Special Agent in Charge George L. Piro of the FBI’s Miami Field Office and Special Agent in Charge Shimon Richmond of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General’s (HHS-OIG) Miami Regional Office made the announcement.
Henry Lora, M.D., 51, of Miami, was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud; and one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, receive health care kickbacks and make false statements relating to health care matters.
The FBI has foiled four plots by gangs in Eastern Europe to sell nuclear material to ISIS in the last five years, an investigation has revealed.
Authorities working with the federal law enforcement agency have stopped criminals with Russian connections that sought to sell radioactive substances to the Middle Eastern extremists.
The latest known case came in February this year, when a smuggler offered a huge cache of deadly cesium – enough to contaminate several city blocks – and specifically sought a buyer from the Islamic State group.
The US Department of Justice is preparing to release roughly 6,000 inmates from federal prisons later this month under new sentencing guidelines.
The inmates’ crimes were predominantly nonviolent drug offenses, but under mandatory minimum sentencing laws enacted during the crack and cocaine epidemic of the 1980s and ’90s they were sentenced to many years behind bars, according to federal law enforcement officials.
“The inmates from federal prison nationwide will be set free by the department’s Bureau of Prisons between October 30 and November 2,” according to officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to the Washington Post. “Most of them will go to halfway houses, and home confinement before being put on supervised release.”
