Hien was 10 when he arrived in Britain. He did not know where he was or where he had been. He knew only that he was here to work. Since he emerged from the back of a lorry after crossing from Calais seven years ago, his experience has been one of exploitation and misery. He has been a domestic slave, been trafficked into cannabis factories, been abused and beaten and was eventually prosecuted and sent to prison. It has been a life of terror, isolation and pain.
Hien’s story is not unique. He is one of an estimated 3,000 Vietnamese children in forced labour in the UK, used for financial gain by criminal gangs running cannabis factories, nail bars, garment factories, brothels and private homes. Charged up to £25,000 for their passage to the UK, these children collectively owe their traffickers almost £75m.
A Birmingham neurosurgeon pleaded guilty today to performing unnecessary spinal surgeries on patients and then unlawfully billing the government and private insurance companies $11 million for the operations, the U.S. Attorneys office announced today.
The brother of one of the men charged in the disappearance and murder ofHolly Bobo, a Tennessee nursing student who vanished in 2011, has now been been indicted.
John Dylan Adams was indicted this week on charges of premeditated first-degree murder, murder in the perpetration of the aggravated kidnapping and aggravated rape, according to the Shelby County District Attorney General’s Office.
THE CHAIRMAN of Temple University’s physics department, a world-renowned expert in a complex field that most people know nothing about, has been indicted for fraudulently obtaining key technology to help associates in his native People’s Republic of China.
Former Gov. Don Siegelman will be staying in prison on public corruption charges. And he won’t be seeing his sentence reduced either.
That is what a federal appeals court in Atlanta ruled Wednesday sinking Siegelman’s hopes for a new trial or at least some time shaved off the remaining two years of his original six and a half year sentence.
When I heard the news my first reaction was a yawn. I think I’m like a lot of you. I was done with the Siegelman thing a long time ago. It’s still hard for me to get my head around the fact that this case is now into its second decade.
I remember the June 2006 day when a Montgomery federal jury found Siegelman guilty of bribery, conspiracy and fraud charges. Almost a year later to the date I was sitting in that same Montgomery courtroom as Judge Mark Fuller handed down the sentence – 88 months – whispered into my cell phone to my editor back in Birmingham who was having trouble hearing me. I whispered out of concern that any minute a federal marshal was going to come over and yank me up for using the phone.
A South Florida-based sweepstakes fraud that bilked about $28 million from hundreds of thousands of victims around the world has been shut down with the arrests of four local men, federal authorities said Thursday.
Matthew Pisoni, 42, of Fort Lauderdale; Marcus Pradel, 39, of Boca Raton; John Leon, 47, of Wilton Manors; and Victor Ramirez, 35, of Aventura, are all facing mail fraud conspiracy, money-laundering conspiracy, mail fraud and money laundering charges.
Each count carries a maximum punishment of 20 years in federal prison.
DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–3rd Eye Surveillance, a small business that designs, installs and services digital video surveillance systems, has filed an infringement lawsuit against the federal government in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims seeking damages exceeding $1 billion for unlawful use of the company’s three video and image surveillance patents. The owner of the patents, Discovery Patents, LLC of Baltimore Maryland, is also a Plaintiff.
“The federal government has knowingly infringed 3rd Eye’s patent rights and has impeded the company’s ability to do business”
James Otis Faulkner, the founder of Discovery Patents, invented the surveillance system patents in 2002 to improve residential and commercial security alarm systems while helping safeguard people and property from potential emergencies, including criminal activity, acts of terror, natural disasters and medical emergencies.
An Eastern Shore company and a Texas firm are seeking $1 billion from the federal government in a patent infringement case that alleges various federal law enforcement and military agencies of using surveillance technology the companies designed.
Controversial Clinton pal Sidney Blumenthal is no longer on the Clinton Foundation payroll, but it is still unclear when he left and under what circumstances.
A spokesperson for the foundation told theWashington Free Beacon that Blumenthal ”hasn’t worked here in a while,” but did not confirm when he left or why. Blumenthal did not respond to request for comment.
Twenty-two pharmacists and doctors were arrested in the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) largest-ever operation aimed at curbing prescription drug abuse. The 15-month “Operation Pilluted” targeted areas in Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, and a total of 280 people were arrested on charges related to illegal pharmaceutical trafficking activities, the DEA stated in a press release. The focus of the operation was to find those involved in distributing and prescribing substances such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, and Xanax. As a result of the operation, 51 vehicles, 202 weapons, and about $404,000 in cash was seized, and 73 seizure warrants led to a seizure of about $11.6 million, plus $6.7 million in real property. The agency also removed or restricted some DEA registrants from prescribing and dispensing controlled substances. The operation resulted in 2 “immediate suspension” orders. In addition, 40 DEA registrants voluntarily surrendered their registrations. – See more at: http://www.pharmacytimes.com/news/22-Pharmacists-Doctors-Arrested-in-DEAs-Operation-Pilluted#sthash.MRGLGB1i.dpuf
