Philadelphia Man Convicted of Insider Trading
Timothy McGee, 48, of Philadelphia, was convicted today of one count of securities fraud and one count of perjury in a case of insider trading, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Between July 14, 2008 and July 22, 2008, McGee...
Sergeant First Class Pleads Guilty to Theft of Over $1 Million Worth of Government Property
United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court Thursday Robert Alan Walker, 36, of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, pled guilty before United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle to conspiring to steal property of the United...
City Dentist to Serve 18 Months in Prison for Defrauding Medicaid
Robin R. Lockwood, 44, a dentist from Oklahoma City, was sentenced last week to serve 18 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to committing health care fraud, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of...
Chicago Psychiatrist Allegedly Submitted at Least 190,000 False Claims to Medicaid; Lawsuit Alleges Kickbacks to Prescribe Antipsychotic Medication for Nursing Home Patients
A Chicago psychiatrist received illegal kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies and submitted at least 140,000 false claims to Medicare and Medicaid for antipsychotic medications he prescribed for thousands of mentally ill patients in area nursing...
Meriden Police Officer Charged with Using Unreasonable Force, Obstructing Justice
David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Hartford returned a two-count indictment today charging Meriden Police Officer Evan Cossestte, 25, with federal civil rights...
Two Former Alabama Court Employees Indicted for Stealing Programming Code for Sensitive Court Data System
Two former employees of the Alabama Administrative Office of the Courts were indicted today in Montgomery, Ala., for stealing the programming code for a sensitive court data system, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice...
Former Dixon Comptroller Rita Crundwell Pleads Guilty to Federal Fraud Charge, Admits Stealing $53 Million from City
The former comptroller of the city of Dixon, Illinois, Rita A. Crundwell, pleaded guilty to a federal fraud charge Wednesday, admitting that she stole more than $53 million from the city since 1990 and used the proceeds to finance her quarter horse...
Former Queens Assemblyman Jimmy Meng Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud
The Wednesday, former Queens County Assemblyman Jimmy Meng waived indictment and pled guilty to an information charging him with wire fraud for soliciting $80,000 in cash from a state court defendant and falsely claiming that he would use the money to...
