Politics

Additional Defense Contractors Charged in Wide-Ranging Corruption Scheme at Naval Fleet Readiness Center in San Diego

An indictment was unsealed today charging Robert Ehnow, the owner and president of Poway defense contractor L&N Industrial Tool & Supply Inc. (“L&N”); Joanne Loehr, the owner and operator of Poway defense contractor Centerline Industrial...

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Former Head of Dallas Crime Stoppers Office Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy and Tax Charges

Theodora Ross, 52, of Rowlett, Texas, and a former senior corporal with the Dallas Police Department, pleaded guilty this morning, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Irma C. Ramirez, to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud stemming from her role as...

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Federal Way Man Charged with Making Threats Against the President and Assaulting a Federal Agent

A Federal Way, Washington man who e-mailed threats against President Barack Obama appeared in U.S. District Court in Seattle today, charged by criminal complaint with making a threat against the president and assault of a federal agent or employee....

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Iraqi National Pleads Guilty to 12-Count Terrorism Indictment in Kentucky

Iraqi citizen Mohanad Shareef Hammadi pleaded guilty to federal terrorism charges today in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky before Senior Judge Thomas B. Russell, announced Lisa Monaco, Assistant Attorney General for National...

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Rights Group Praises Stop and Frisk Ruling by Federal Judge

In response ruling by Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, which excluded as untested and unreliable key portions of the proposed testimony of New York City’s key witness in a class-action lawsuit...

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Wisconsin Neurosurgeon Convicted of Filing False Tax Return and Failing to File Report of Foreign Bank Accounts

A jury convicted Arvind Ahuja yesterday on federal tax charges stemming from his failure to disclose offshore bank accounts maintained in India and the Bailiwick of Jersey, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced.

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Former Jackson Bank Officer Sentenced for Embezzling Bank Funds

Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, a former retail operations officer for the United Prairie Bank in Jackson, Minnesota, was sentenced to 12 months and one day in federal prison for embezzling between $30,000 and $120,000 from customer...

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Two Former Senior Executives of ArthroCare Corp. Arrested in $400 Million Securities Fraud Scheme

Two former senior executives of Austin, Texas-based ArthroCare Corp., a publicly traded medical device company, were arrested this morning in Morristown, New Jersey and Orange County, California for their alleged roles in a scheme to defraud the...

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