Investigative Press Releases
Wednesday, July 8, 2020
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A Pickerington couple have been sentenced for conspiring to defraud multiple federal programs by committing student-aid fraud, tax-return fraud, and Medicaid and SNAP fraud. They caused a total loss of more than half a million dollars.
Wednesday, July 8, 2020
CINCINNATI – The former executive director and bookkeeper of My Sister’s House, a domestic violence shelter in Washington Court House, were arrested today on charges contained in an indictment alleging that the two spent thousands of dollars intended for the operation of the shelter on personal expenses for themselves, including food, a trip to Disney World and Universal Studios for their daughters, and thousands of dollars in purchases from Avon, Thirty-One and iTunes.
Wednesday, July 8, 2020
NEWARK, N.J. – The former acting business administrator for the Township of Orange, New Jersey, has been charged in a 28-count indictment with conspiracy, bribe-taking, money and property fraud, federal tax fraud, and making false statements in connection with a mortgage, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
Wednesday, July 8, 2020
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A Kanawha County man pled guilty today to defrauding the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) of 2016 disaster relief funds, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Randall Butler, 46, of Charleston, pled guilty to one count of fraud in connection with major disaster or emergency benefits.
Wednesday, July 8, 2020
MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
Madison Man Charged with CARES Act Fraud
Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Wednesday, July 8, 2020
FRANKFORT, Ky. – A Shelbyville man, Fei Zhou Tang, 51, was sentenced on Wednesday to three years of probation, with six months on home detention, by U.S. District Court Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove, following his guilty plea for committing wage and hour offenses.
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
Fort Myers, FL – United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute, LLC (FCS), an oncology group headquartered in Fort Myers, Florida, has agreed to a civil settlement that will return $2,341,508.91 that was overpaid by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for certain claims relating to physician-administered drugs.
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
LOS ANGELES – Law enforcement today arrested eight individuals named in a federal grand jury indictment charging them with creating nonexistent businesses and then claiming more than $1.1 million in unemployment benefits for purported employees of those fake businesses.
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
NEWARK, N.J. – A Middlesex County, New Jersey, man has been charged with bank fraud, theft, and identity theft U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.