New York, NY - The United States of America charged Michael Madnaldi with filing false tax returns.

MICHAEL MAGNALDI, a former Pelham resident and an owner and operator of a Bronx-based tax preparation business, pled guilty to one count of aiding and assisting in the filing of false tax returns for tax years 2014 to 2017 and one count of subscribing to a false tax return for tax year 201

Baltimore, MD - The United States of America charged Chad Arrington, a/k/a "Chad Focus" with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

Chad Arrington, a/k/a “Chad Focus,” age 32, of Randallstown, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to a federal wire fraud conspiracy in connection with a scheme to use a company credit card to make over $4.1 million in unauthorized purchases.

The guilty plea

This case requires us to define the “public interest” in the
internet age. The issue arises in an anti-SLAPP motion: a
special motion to strike claims under Code of Civil Procedure
section 425.16. This statute can apply if the targeted claims
arose from “protected activity,” which the statute defines to
include statements on an issue of “public interest.”
Neighbors Eric Ley

New York, NY - The United States of America charged Jason Glanis with fraud.

Jason Glanis pled guilty today for his participation in multiple fraudulent schemes. In particular, GALANIS pled guilty for his role in a scheme to manipulate the market for Gerova Financial Group, Ltd. (“Gerova”), a publicly traded company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and to defrauding the shareholder

Norman, OK - David Pearce sued Leonard Jackson, American Eagle Title Insurance Company and Buffalo Land Abstract Company, Inc. on personal injury, auto negligence and respondeat superior theories claiming to have been injured and/or damaged in a car wreck caused by Jackson.

Rutland, VT - The United States of America charged Roland Alston with unlawful transportation of firearms.

Roland Alston, age 35, was sentenced to 52 months in jail by Chief Judge Geoffrey Crawford in United States District Court in Rutland, Vermont. Alston had previously pleaded guilty to possessing a handgun as a convicted felon in December 2018. At the time of the plea, Alston also a

Pierre, SD - The United States of America sued the South Dakota Department of Social Services on a civil rights violation theory.

The Justice Department announced today that it has reached a settlement with the South Dakota Department of Social Services (Department of Social Services or DSS), a state agency that assists South Dakotans seeking public benefits, resolving allegations that DS

Knoxville, TN - The United States of America sued Dr. Chang-Wen on a False Claims Act violation theory.

Family physician Dr. Chang-Wen Chen and his practice Chang-Wen Chen, M.D., P.C. paid $285,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by improperly charging government health care programs the physician’s rate for services that were provided by nurse practitioners

Boston, MA - The United States of America charged John Kapoor with conspiracy to bribe medical practitioners to prescribe pain medication manufactured by his company.

The founder of Insys Therapeutics, John Kapoor, was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for orchestrating a scheme to bribe practitioners to prescribe Subsys, a fentanyl-based pain medication, often when medically unn

In 1950 the owner of property in Boyle Heights agreed to
provide eight parking spaces to the owner of a neighboring lot
who wanted to build a warehouse exceeding the maximum
allowable square footage then permitted by the Los Angeles
Municipal Code (LAMC). A notarized parking affidavit
documenting the agreement was filed with the Los Angeles
Department of Building and Safety

¶1 This appeal by the City of Oklahoma City arises from an order fixing the amount of attorney's fees to be paid from a common, equitable fund created for the City through the efforts of attorneys for named appellees. A history of this litigation and authority of the trial court to award attorney fees from the equitable fund is found in State ex rel. Burk et al. v. City of Oklahoma City et al., Ok

Atlanta, GA - The United States of America charged Hassan Ra El, a/k/a Rasheem Harrson Crockett with mail fraud.

Hassan Ra El, a/k/a Rasheem Harrson Crockett has pleaded guilty to mail fraud related to a scheme in which he falsely claimed to be a member of the Moroccan Royal Family to defraud business owners around the country to pay an advance fee before obtaining millions in business lo

Miami, FL - The United States of America charged Donna Carman with embezzling federal funds.

Donna Carman, 60, of Indiantown, Florida, was sentenced for embezzling federal funds for her own personal profit.

According to the court record, beginning as early as August 21, 2014, Carman began siphoning funds from Indiantown Nonprofit Housing, Inc. (“Indiantown”), a Florida not-for-pr

A. The Raceway
The Laguna Seca Raceway (the Raceway) is a motor racing circuit2
located in
Salinas and owned by the County. The County and SCRAMP are parties to a concession
agreement under which they co-manage the Raceway. Pursuant to the concession
agreement, SCRAMP manages the Raceway’s day-to-day operations, and the County is
responsible for drainage issues.
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Spokane, WA - The United States of America charged Louis Mark Clark with assault and batter in Indian country.

Louis Mark Clark, age 28, of Nespelem, Washington, and an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, was sentenced after having pleaded guilty on September 30, 2019, to Crime on Indian Reservation - Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury. United

San Diego, CA - Numerous complaints sued MesMed on qui tam theories.

ResMed Corp., a manufacturer of durable medical equipment (DME) based in San Diego, California, has agreed to pay more than $37.5 million to resolve alleged False Claims Act violations for paying kickbacks to DME suppliers, sleep labs and other health care providers, the Department of Justice announced today.

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Under section 1253.3 of the Unemployment Insurance
Code (section 1253.3), public school employees are not eligible to
collect unemployment benefits during “the period between two
successive academic years or terms” if the employees worked
during “the first of the academic years or terms” and received
“reasonable assurance” of work during “the second of the
academic years or

Miami, FL - The United States of America charged Johnny Enso Hidalgo Marchan and Rodolfo Hermoza with extortion, mail fraud and wire fraud.

Two Peruvian men pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud for operating a large fraud and extortion scheme.

Johnny Enso Hidalgo Marchan, 40, and Rodolfo Hermoza, 44, oversaw call centers in Peru that used government i

Washington, DC - The United States of America charged Ahmadreza Mohammadi-Doostdar and Majid Ghorbani with conspiracy to defraud the United States and Impersonating an Agent of a Foreign Government.

Ahmadreza Mohammadi-Doostdar, 39, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen, and Majid Ghorbani, 60, an Iranian citizen and resident of California, have been sentenced to prison terms of 38 months and 30 mo

Alexandria, LA - The United States of America charged David White, Jr. with distribution of methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.

David White Jr., 49, of Jonesville, Louisiana, was sentenced January 7, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell, to serve 97 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for distribution o