Nov. 6, 2014

Three Face Federal Charges In A Military Procurement Fraud Scheme Involving Helicopters That Support The President

United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh, North Carolina returned a 5 count indictment charging CRAIG KOLHAGEN, DENNIS PENNINGTON, and JAMES BOWLING with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, major fraud against the government, and procurement fraud.

Nov. 5, 2014

United States Attorney Wigginton Announces Multi-millionDollar Fraud Recovery On Behalf Of The United States

Maersk Line, Limited, (Maersk) paid the United States of America eight million seven hundred thousand dollars ($8,700,000.00) as the result of a civil settlement regarding Maersk’s failure to fully comply with certain terms of its contract with the United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.

Oct. 29, 2014

Government Contractor, Its Owner, and Two Employees Charged in Multi-Million Dollar Fraud Scheme

Devos Ltd., doing business as Guaranteed Returns (“Guaranteed Returns”), in Holbrook, NY, its Chief Executive Officer, Dean Volkes, and two others were charged by indictment, unsealed today, in a multi-million dollar scheme to defraud customers, including the government.

Oct. 29, 2014

Biomet Companies Pay Over $6 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Concerning Bone Growth Stimulators

BOSTON – EBI LLC (d/b/a Biomet Spine and Bone Healing Technologies) and Biomet Inc. have paid $6.07 million to resolve allegations that EBI violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to induce use of its bone growth stimulators and billing federal health care programs for refurbished stimulators, the Department of Justice announced today. EBI is a medical device company located in Parsippany, New Jersey, that sells bone growth stimulators, which are used to repair fractures that are slow to heal. It is a subsidiary of Warsaw, Indiana, based Biomet.

Oct. 29, 2014

Florida Man, Jaime Jauregui, Convicted of Gun Control and National Firearms Act Violations

U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JAIME JAUREGUI, age 36, of Orlando, Florida, was convicted today after a 2 ½ day jury trial. The jury returned a verdict of guilty as charged on both counts of the superseding indictment which charged JAUREGUI with conspiracy to violate the Gun Control and National Firearms Acts (18 U.S.C. § 371) and possession of unregistered firearms (26 U.S.C. § 5861(d)).

Oct. 24, 2014

First RF Corporation Agrees to Pay $10 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations

The Justice Department announced today that First RF Corporation (First RF), an antenna and radio system company located in Boulder, Colorado, has agreed to pay $10 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting inflated claims for electronic warfare antennas sold to the U.S. Army to combat Improvised Explosive Devices.

Oct. 24, 2014

Former Army Contracting Official Sentenced to Four Years in Prison In Bribery and Kickback Scheme

In Seon Lim, a former contracting official for the U.S. Department of the Army, was sentenced today to four years in prison for his role in a scheme in which he accepted over $490,000 worth of benefits, including cash payments and vacations, from favored contractors. In return, he helped these businesses obtain millions of dollars in federal contracts.

Oct. 24, 2014

Massachusetts Man Sentenced to 21 Months in Prison for Role in Multimillion-Dollar International Cybercrime Scheme

A member of an international cybercrime, identity theft and credit card fraud conspiracy was sentenced today to 21 months in prison for using information hacked from customer accounts held at more than a dozen banks, brokerage firms, payroll processing companies and government agencies in an attempt to steal at least $15 million from American customers, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

Oct. 22, 2014

Cyber-criminal Sentenced To Two Years For Hacking The United States Navy & National Geospatial-intelligence Agency Computer Systems

Daniel Trenton Krueger, one of two leaders of the computer hacking group known as Team Digi7al, was sentenced today to serve twenty-four months in federal prison for hacking the U.S. Navy, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and over 50 public and private computer systems, U.S. Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. announced.

Oct. 20, 2014

Thermacore, Inc., Agrees to Pay $965,000 to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations

Thermacore, Inc. (“Thermacore”) has agreed to a $965,000.00 settlement to resolve allegations of fraud arising as part of the Federal government’s Small Business Innovation Research (“SBIR”) program. According to the United States, Thermacore is responsible for duplicate SBIR awards submissions.