An Ohio man has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, Assistant Attorney General for National Security Kenneth L. Wainstein, U.S. Attorney Gregory G. Lockhart of the Southern District of Ohio, FBI Deputy Assistant Director, Counterterrorism Division, Arthur M. Cummings, and Julie L. Myers, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), announced today. (Read more)

Criminal charges were filed today in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., against Air Van Lines International Inc. (AVLC). Under the terms of a plea agreement, AVLC pleaded guilty to two counts of engaging in a scheme to conceal a material fact, and agreed to pay a criminal fine of $143,040. (Read more)

Miami resident Kent Frank was sentenced to 40 years in prison on sex tourism and child pornography charges, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta of the Southern District of Florida announced today. (Read more)

The Department of Justice today announced a comprehensive settlement agreement under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with Doctor Associates Inc. (DAI), the privately held corporation that franchises Subway sandwich shops throughout the United States. The agreement, which sets out steps to make Subway shops physically accessible to people with disabilities, affects more than 20,000 Subway franchises. (Read more)

The city of San Diego will spend approximately $1 billion over the next six years to make improvements to its sewer system under a comprehensive settlement filed today by the Justice Department and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (Read more)

Daniel Lamont Evans, a corrections officer with the Harrison County Sheriff‘s Department, pleaded guilty today to a one-count criminal information charging him with conspiracy to violate the civil rights of inmates at the Harrison County Adult Detention Center. Evans, who has been employed at the prison since September 2003, faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000. (Read more)

A California man was charged today with illegally exporting sensitive technology to a business in India that was restricted from receiving such technology without a license, Assistant Attorney General for National Security Kenneth L. Wainstein and U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California George S. Cardona announced today. (Read more)

Joseph P. Nacchio, 57, the former chief executive officer of Qwest Communications International Inc., was sentenced to 6 years in prison for insider trading, the Justice Department announced today. (Read more)

Geoffrey Golden, 57, of Pella, Iowa, was sentenced to 63 months in prison today by U.S. District Judge James Gritzner for possession of child pornography, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Matthew G. Whitaker of the Southern District of Iowa announced today. (Read more)

WASHINGTON — Two former ITXC Corporation executives have pleaded guilty and one former executive has been sentenced in the District of New Jersey in relation to their participation in a foreign bribery scheme, (Read more)

A Milwaukee, Wis., jury today found three former Milwaukee police officers guilty of crimes relating to a brutal assault on two men in October 2004. (Read more)

Today, the Justice Department celebrated the 17th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) at an event in New Orleans, La. hosted by the Mayor‘s Advisory Council for Citizens with Disabilities. At the ADA anniversary event, Wan J. Kim, the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, signed a Project Civic Access (PCA) agreement with the City of New Orleans which sets out a plan to ensure equal access for people with disabilities to the city‘s emergency operations and other programs, services, activities and facilities. (Read more)

The Justice Department and the U.S. Department of Transportation‘s (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) announced today a settlement requiring comprehensive reform on El Paso Natural Gas Company‘s (EPNG) entire 10,000 mile pipeline system. The action results from a tragic explosion of an EPNG pipeline which killed twelve people in Carlsbad, New Mexico in August 2000. (Read more)

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit today against Dr. John Crockett Henry and Henry LLP of Virginia Beach, Va., alleging that Crockett and his company discriminated against black tenants and families with children at the 15½ Street Apartments in Virginia Beach. The defendants rent apartments at the 30-unit complex to tenants who participate in the federally subsidized Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program. (Read more)

A third individual was arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering arising from a scheme involving bribery, conspiracy and money laundering related to Department of Defense contracts in Iraq and Kuwait, announced Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and Assistant Attorney General Thomas O. Barnett of the Antitrust Division. (Read more)

Two Rochester, Mich. siblings have been indicted for exporting telecommunications and other equipment to Iraq during an embargo with that country, along with related charges, Assistant Attorney General for National Security Kenneth L. Wainstein and U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Murphy and announced today. (Read more)

WASHINGTON — A California man has been charged by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles with operating an Internet-based obscenity distribution business and related offenses, (Read more)

The Department of Justice today announced that $725,000 in grants has been awarded to 11 organizations throughout the country, to conduct public education programs for workers and employers about immigration-related job discrimination. (Read more)

Shannon Houchin, a former police officer with the Crittenden County Sheriff‘s Office in West Memphis, Ark., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Little Rock to a felony civil rights charge. (Read more)

A major in the U.S. Army has been charged with bribery, money laundering and conspiracy arising out of his service as an Army contracting officer in Kuwait in 2004 and 2005, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and Assistant Attorney General Thomas O. Barnett of the Antitrust Division announced today. (Read more)

Greek-based shipping company Kassian Maritime Navigation Agency Ltd. pleaded guilty today to maintaining a false record pertaining to the illegal dumping of bilge and wastewater into the ocean from the M/V North Princess, an ocean-going bulk cargo ship traveling to ports in the United States, in violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships. (Read more)

The U.S. Attorney‘s Office for the District of Columbia and the Justice Department‘s Civil Division have reached a criminal deferred prosecution agreement and a civil False Claims Act with Reston-based Maximus Inc, which requires Maximus to pay $30.5 million. The parties also announced that Maximus has agreed to enter into a corporate integrity agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General. (Read more)

A former major in the U.S. Army Reserves has pleaded guilty to bribery and conspiracy to commit bribery and money laundering in connection with the fraudulent awarding and administration of U.S. government contracts in Balad, Iraq, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division announced today. (Read more)

A federal grand jury in Houston has indicted a former executive of a subsidiary of Houston-based Willbros Group Inc., on charges of conspiring to make corrupt payments to Nigerian officials in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the Department of Justice announced today. (Read more)

A former deputy manager and treasurer for Lockheed Martin Corporation‘s political action committee has pleaded guilty to wire fraud and making false statements to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division announced today. (Read more)

Daniel Joseph Maldonado, a.k.a Daniel Aljughaifi, a U.S. citizen convicted of receiving training from a foreign terrorist organization has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, Kenneth L. Wainstein, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, Don DeGabrielle, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas, and Joseph Billy, Assistant Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Counterterrorism Division, announced today. (Read more)

Thomas Lane, 57, of Indianapolis, was sentenced to 10 years in prison today by U.S. District Judge Larry J. McKinney for possession of child pornography, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Susan W. Brooks of the Southern District of Indiana announced today. (Read more)

The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Attorney‘s Office for the Middle District of Georgia, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced today that there is insufficient evidence to pursue federal criminal civil rights charges against a Muscogee County Sheriff‘s Deputy who shot and killed Kenneth Walker on Dec. 10, 2003. (Read more)

The Department of Justice today reached a comprehensive settlement agreement under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with the Kansas City Downtown Hotel Group LLC that will ensure the facilities of the Kansas City Marriott are accessible to individuals with disabilities. (Read more)

The Department of Justice and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a settlement today with E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. that is expected to reduce more than 13,000 tons of harmful emissions annually from four sulfuric acid production plants in Louisiana, Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky. (Read more)

“Gomez-Bustamante‘s extradition is a blow to the leaders of international drug cartels who once thought they could never face justice in the United States,” said Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales. “The cooperation of the Colombian government in extraditing alleged drug lords and the tireless work of U.S. prosecutors and federal agents in pursuing cases against them has helped in our efforts to target the Norte Valle and other cartels, and to cut off the flow of illegal drugs from Colombia to the United States.” (Read more)

A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Tennessee has charged a former contract worker at East Tennessee Technology Park with converting to his own use restricted government materials utilized for uranium enrichment and illegally transferring these restricted materials to another person, with reason to believe the materials would be used to injure the United States and secure an advantage to a foreign country. (Read more)

The Justice Department today filed a consent order resolving a lawsuit which has alleged that the owners, developers, builders, architects and engineers of six apartment complexes in Montgomery County, Pa., discriminated against persons with disabilities in designing and constructing the housing. (Read more)

The Department of Justice today submitted to Congress new proposed legislation that seeks to update and improve current laws aimed at protecting Americans from the increasingly sophisticated crime of identity theft. (Read more)

Equistar Chemicals LP, headquartered in Houston, Texas, will spend more than $125 million on pollution controls and cleanup to address a myriad of air, water and hazardous waste violations at seven petrochemical plants in Texas, Illinois, Iowa and Louisiana, the Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today. (Read more)

WASHINGTON — The owner of a Florida pharmacy has been convicted by a federal jury in Miami of Medicare fraud, (Read more)

Northrop Grumman will pay the United States $8 million to resolve allegations that it did not properly test certain tubes used by the U.S. military in night vision goggles and sniper scopes, the Justice Department announced today. These night vision instruments are an important tool for both soldiers and Marines fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. (Read more)

Two former North Carolina corrections officers, Eula James and Molly Holley, were sentenced to 12 months nine months in prison, respectively, for their roles in conspiring to falsify an official report to prevent an inmate from being paroled in September 2003. Both defendants also received three years of supervised release. (Read more)

The Justice Department filed suit today asking the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida to permanently bar Abelardo Ernest Cruz, Ruth Real, and their companies, Nations Business Center Inc., Nations Tax Service Inc., and Ruth Real & Associates Inc., from preparing federal tax returns. (Read more)

WASHINGTON - The owner of a Miami health care company has pleaded guilty to submitting more than $2 million worth of fraudulent bills to the Medicare program, (Read more)

A District of Columbia grand jury today returned a 23-count indictment against Donald H. Roberts for conspiracy and assisting in the preparation of false U.S. individual income tax returns, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service announced today. (Read more)

Today the President appointed Craig S. Morford to be acting Deputy Attorney General at the Department of Justice upon the departure of Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty, who is scheduled to leave the Department later this summer. Mr. Morford currently serves as the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. (Read more)

A former Marine who worked at times under two administrations in the Office of the Vice President of the United States was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for espionage and other charges for taking and transferring classified information to senior political and government officials of the Philippines in an attempt to destabilize and overthrow that country‘s government, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, Kenneth L. Wainstein and U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie announced. (Read more)

CITGO Refining and Chemicals Co. (CITGO Refining) was found guilty late yesterday of three misdemeanor criminal violations of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) by a judge in Corpus Christi, Texas, the Justice Department announced today.  (Read more)

The United States has intervened in a whistleblower suit accusing Renal Care Group Inc. (RCG) and Renal Care Group Supply Company (RCGSC) of fraudulently billing Medicare, the Justice Department announced today. The suit alleges that RCG and RCGSC fraudulently billed for supplies and equipment provided to End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) patients who received dialysis treatments at home. Both companies are owned by Fresenius Medical Care Holdings Inc. which was also named in the lawsuit. (Read more)

President Bush created the President‘s Corporate Fraud Task Force on July 9, 2002 to restore public and investor confidence in America‘s corporations following a wave of major corporate scandals. Since its inception, the Task Force has compiled a strong record of combating corporate fraud and punishing those who violate the trust of employees and investors. Today, the member agencies of the Task Force recognized these successes at an event commemorating its fifth anniversary. (Read more)

The Department of Justice today filed a lawsuit against St. Louis County, Mo., alleging racial discrimination and retaliation against black former fire inspectors at the Robertson Fire Protection District (FPD). (Read more)

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has filed a civil complaint in federal court in Miami seeking the forfeiture of approximately $110 million in proceeds from Italian public corruption offenses that were allegedly laundered in the United States. (Read more)

Jarvis Malone, a former aide at the Arlington Developmental Center (ADC) in Arlington, Tenn., pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Memphis to violating the constitutional rights of a mentally handicapped patient. (Read more)

Timothy Brandon Moore, a corrections officer with the Harrison County Sheriff‘s Department, in Harrison County, Miss., pleaded guilty late yesterday to a one-count criminal information related to his role in obstructing a federal civil rights investigation into the death of an inmate at the Harrison County Adult Detention Center. (Read more)

Akal Security Inc., one of the largest contract security providers in the country, will pay the United States $18 million to resolve allegations that it violated the terms of its contract to provide trained civilian guards at eight U.S. Army bases, the Justice Department announced today. According to the settlement, some of the supplied security guards allegedly failed to satisfy weapons qualification requirements and receive other training, and the contractor allegedly failed to satisfy contractual man-hour requirements. (Read more)

WASHINGTON — A former executive of National Century Financial Enterprises (NCFE) pleaded guilty to charges that he defrauded investors of billions of dollars, (Read more)

Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, Assistant Attorney General for National Security Kenneth L. Wainstein and FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III today announced a series of comprehensive measures to significantly enhance national security oversight and compliance at the Justice Department and FBI. (Read more)

Several St. Louis-area developers responsible for polluting streams and lakes with runoff from three construction sites will adhere to a strict compliance program at future construction projects, clean up past pollution, and pay one of the largest environmental penalties of its kind in state history under a consent decree reached with the United States, Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon, and the city of Wildwood, Mo. (Read more)

WASHINGTON — Mirant Energy Trading LLC has entered into an agreement with the U.S. government resolving an ongoing federal investigation into the submission of knowingly inaccurate reports by former traders (Read more)

Juvenal Ovidio Ricardo Palmera Pineda, a/k/a Simon Trinidad, 56, a senior member of the designated Foreign Terrorist Organization Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, or FARC, has been found guilty by a federal jury in the District of Columbia of conspiracy to engage in the hostage-taking of three American citizens in the Republic of Colombia, Assistant Attorney General for National Security Kenneth L. Wainstein and U.S. Attorney Jeffrey A. Taylor announced today. (Read more)

A former executive of a Long Island, N.Y., defense company pleaded guilty and has agreed to serve 10 months in prison for participating in a conspiracy to rig bids on military contracts for products that are used to secure cargo on vehicles, vessels and aircraft, and for soliciting a kickback in connection with those contracts, the Department of Justice announced today. (Read more)

The Department of Justice today announced a settlement agreement under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with Utah College of Massage Therapy (UCMT) that will require the college to provide sign language interpreters and other auxiliary aids to students who need them as required by the ADA. (Read more)

The Department of Justice and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today a landmark settlement requiring Casper‘s Electronics, of Mundelein, Ill., to pay a penalty and stop selling devices that allow cars to release excess levels of pollution into the environment, in violation of the Clean Air Act (CAA). (Read more)

Thomas T. Anderson, a former elected member of the Alaska state House of Representatives, has been convicted by a federal jury in Alaska of extortion, conspiracy, bribery and money laundering, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division announced today. (Read more)

Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation (Kennecott), the second largest copper producer in the United States, has agreed to implement a comprehensive cleanup of groundwater contamination from past mining operations related to the Bingham Canyon Mine located southwest of Salt Lake City, the Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today. (Read more)

The Justice Department has filed a civil injunction suit seeking to bar East St. Louis, Ill., resident Mary Powell from preparing federal tax returns for others. According to the government complaint filed in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis, Powell has prepared more than 1,000 returns since 2003. (Read more)

A Greenville, S.C., federal judge has permanently barred Robert Barnwell Clarkson and his so-called “Patriot Network” from promoting tax-fraud schemes, the Justice Department announced today. The court found that Clarkson falsely instructed Patriot Network members that they need not file federal income tax returns. The court also held that Clarkson helped members obstruct IRS efforts to collect taxes. (Read more)

A Nevada man has been sentenced to life without parole in federal prison for transporting two minors across state lines to work as prostitutes after he previously had been convicted of a child exploitation crime, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney George S. Cardona of the Central District of California announced today. (Read more)

Four former Enterasys Networks, Inc. executives have been sentenced to prison terms for their roles in an accounting fraud conspiracy at the computer network company formerly based in Rochester, N.H., Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph N. Laplante for the District of New Hampshire announced today. (Read more)

A high-ranking member of the designated foreign terrorist organization Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, or FARC, has been sentenced in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on drug charges, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division announced today. (Read more)

East Kentucky Power Cooperative, a coal-fired electric utility based in Winchester, Ky., will spend approximately $650 million on pollution controls and pay a $750,000 penalty to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Air Act at its three plants, the Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today. (Read more)