Tag: 2013
Elizabeth Monteagudo, Home Health Medicare Fraud, Florida 2013
A Florida woman has been sentenced to 70 months in prison for her role in a $48 million home health Medicare fraud scheme. Elizabeth Monteagudo, 33, of Miami, was sentenced on for her participation in the scheme, which involved recruiting patients for Miami health care companies and soliciting and receiving kickbacks and bribes from the…
Roger Dies, Violating Federal Environmental Laws and Obstructing a Grand Jury Investigation, Louisiana 2015
BATON ROUGE, LA – Roger Dies, 55, of Zachary, Louisiana, was sentenced to probation and hefty financial penalties after pleading guilty to violating federal environmental laws and obstructing a grand jury investigation, the Department of Justice announced. The case, stemming from an investigation into widespread compliance issues with environmental regulations, highlights a pattern of deceit…
Michael Moshe Shimshoni, Failure to disclose lead-based paint hazards, Florida 2014
St. Petersburg, FL – A Florida landlord has been penalized for failing to disclose known lead-based paint hazards to a tenant, a violation of federal law designed to protect vulnerable populations. Michael Moshe Shimshoni, 56, of Tierra Verde, pleaded guilty in August 2014 and was sentenced in November of the same year, bringing a close…
Matthew Adegbite, Tax Preparer Fraud, Georgia 2023
A federal court in Atlanta has dealt a devastating blow to a notorious tax scammer, shutting down Matthew Adegbite’s operation and preventing him from preparing federal income tax returns for others. The permanent injunction order was signed today by Judge Clarence Cooper of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Adegbite, the…
Derek Bell, Violent Crime, Illinois 2013
On December 11, 2013, Derek Bell, a 32-year-old resident of Chicago, Illinois, stood before the Illinois Northern District Federal District Court to face a string of violent charges. The federal indictment, filed under case number 13-cr-838, accused Bell of multiple counts, including conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder, and possession of a firearm by a…
Jackson Charged with Violent Crime, Maryland, 2013
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Bilfinger SE, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Texas 2013
Bilfinger SE, an international engineering and services company based in Mannheim, Germany, has agreed to pay a $32 million penalty to resolve charges that it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by bribing government officials of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to obtain and retain contracts related to the Eastern Gas Gathering System (EGGS)…
Lonnie Earl Perkins, Hazardous Waste Dumping, Texas 2013
Houston, TX – A Texas tanker truck driver has been sentenced following a disturbing case of illegal hazardous waste dumping across northwest Houston and Harris County. Lonnie Earl Perkins, formerly employed by biodiesel company New Energy Fuels, pled guilty in December 2013 to multiple felony charges related to the systematic disposal of potentially dangerous materials…
Task Force on American Indian Children Exposed to Violence, Public Hearing, North Dakota 2014
The Attorney General’s Advisory Committee of the Task Force on American Indian/Alaska Native Children Exposed to Violence held its first public hearing today in Bismarck, N.D., convening tribal researchers, advocates and local community members to discuss domestic violence and child physical and sexual abuse in Indian Country. The task force is comprised of a federal…
Harry Neuhoff, Tax Evasion, New York 2008
Harry Neuhoff, a resident of Brooklyn, N.Y., was sentenced to serve 12 months and one day in prison and three years supervised release for tax evasion, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. According to documents filed with the court, Neuhoff was the president and an owner of EVA TEES Inc., a…
