Politics

Cheating in Contracts

It’s been billed as the “largest domestic bribery and bid-rigging scheme in the history of federal contracting cases.”

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Louisiana Stolen Identity Tax Refund Fraud Defendant Sentenced to Federal Prison

The Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that Angela Myers, a resident of Baton Rouge, La., was sentenced in the Middle District of Louisiana to 132 months in federal prison for wire fraud, making false claims, subscribing...

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Williamsport Resident Sentenced to 70 Months on Federal Tax Charges

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Cheryl Cobia, age 27, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 70 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Court Judge Matthew W. Brann on July 9, 2013, in...

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California Pharmaceutical Company Agrees to Pay $3.5 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations

Mallinckrodt LLC, a pharmaceutical manufacturer, has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle allegations that it made improper payments to physicians and, as a result, caused the submission of false claims to Medicare and Medicaid between January 2005...

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Former U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer and Four Associates Sentenced for Carrying Out Bribery and Alien Smuggling Activities Along Mexican Border

A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer, his girlfriend, his nephew, and two of their associates were sentenced in federal court for their participation in bribery and alien smuggling activities along the U.S./Mexico border spanning...

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Long Island Art Dealer Indicted in Massive Art Fraud, Money Laundering, and Tax Scheme

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Toni Weirauch, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI); and George Venizelos, the...

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Former CEO and Former CFO of ArthroCare Corp. Charged with Orchestrating $400 Million Securities Fraud Scheme

The former chief executive officer and former chief financial officer of ArthroCare Corp., a publicly traded medical device company based in Austin, Texas, were charged for their alleged leading roles in a $400 million scheme to defraud the company’s...

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California Businessman Pleads Guilty to Concealing Foreign Bank Account at Israeli Bank on His Tax Return

Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division Kathryn Keneally and U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag for the Northern District of California announced that Moshe Handelsman of Saratoga, Calif., pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return for tax year 2007...

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