Investigative Press Releases
Thursday, July 8, 2021
SANTA ANA, California – The owner of trucking companies in the Inland Empire and elsewhere in California, who was out on bond awaiting trial in a separate federal criminal case, was arrested today on a criminal complaint alleging he fraudulently obtained more than $667,000 in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) COVID-19 pandemic relief funds.
Thursday, July 8, 2021
Thursday, July 8, 2021
ALBANY, NEW YORK – Robert Seifert, age 63, of Utica, New York, plead guilty today to making telephonic threats to employees of the Albany Stratton Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
The announcement was made by Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon and Christopher Algieri, Special Agent in Charge of the Northeast Field Office for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Inspector General.
Thursday, July 8, 2021
PLANO, Texas – A McKinney man has been sentenced to prison for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei today.
Demetrius Cervantes, 46, pleaded guilty on Dec. 4, 2020, to conspiracy to obtain information from a protected computer on Dec. 4, 2020, and was sentenced to 48 months in federal prison today by U.S. District Judge Sean D. Jordan.
Thursday, July 8, 2021
BOSTON – A Lexington doctor and his wife, who works as his office manager, were charged today in a superseding indictment in connection with an international money laundering scheme involving importing illegal, misbranded drugs.
Thursday, July 8, 2021
Baltimore, Maryland – St. Jude Medical, Inc. (St. Jude) has agreed to pay $27 million to settle allegations under the False Claims Act that, between November 2014 and October 2016, it knowingly sold defective heart devices to health care facilities that, in turn, implanted the devices into patients insured by federal healthcare programs. St. Jude was acquired by Abbott Laboratories in January 2017.
Thursday, July 8, 2021
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Rebecca F. Bragg, 37, pleaded guilty to fraud in connection with major disaster or emergency benefits.
Wednesday, July 7, 2021
WASHINGTON – AAR Corp., located in Wood Dale, Illinois, and its subsidiary, AAR Airlift
Group Inc. (Airlift), located in Melbourne, Florida, have agreed to pay the United
States
$11,088,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act in
connection with aircraft maintenance services performed by Airlift on two United States
Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) contracts.
Wednesday, July 7, 2021
PORTLAND, Ore.—The former general manager of the Jacklin Seed Company, a Pacific Northwest producer and marketer of grass seed and turfgrass, was sentenced to federal prison today for conspiring to commit wire fraud and money laundering as part of multiple schemes to defraud Jacklin’s former owner, the J.R. Simplot Company, and its customers.
Christopher Claypool, 53, a resident of Spokane, Washington, was sentenced to three years in federal prison and three years’ supervised release.
Wednesday, July 7, 2021
An Arlington physician has been convicted of drug crimes, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Prerak Shah.
Following five days of trial, a federal jury convicted physician Clinton Battle, 68, of one count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and one count of distribution of a controlled substance.