Nurse Practitioner Charged in Alleged $2.3 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A registered nurse and nurse practitioner who allegedly billed and received more than $2.3 million dollars from commercial health insurers and Medicaid for services he falsely claimed to have…

Queens Man Pleads Guilty to Posting Threats to Kill Members of Congress and Illegally Possessing Ammunition

Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Eduard Florea pleaded guilty before United States Chief Magistrate Judge Cheryl L. Pollak to one count of transmitting threats to injure and one count of…

Fully vaccinated 36-year-old flight attendant loses month-long fight against COVID-19

NEW YORK, NY – Native New Yorker Maurice “Reggie” Jefferson, 36, died of COVID-19 last week. Jefferson was a flight attendant for Southwest Airlines who contracted COVID-19 in July and has been…

Health and Wellness·Travel

Three Phoenix Men Indicted for Conspiracy to Purchase Firearms Using False Statements

PHOENIX, Ariz. – On August 3, a federal grand jury in Phoenix returned a 65-count indictment against Chris Oliver, 23, of Gilbert, Arizona, Michael Kelly, 23, of Tempe, Arizona, and Dion Delpino,…

Prison Inmates Among Four Defendants Indicted for Unemployment Insurance Fraud

ALBANY, NEW YORK – Two New York State prison inmates and two others were indicted last week for conspiring to defraud COVID-19 pandemic-related unemployment insurance programs administered by the New York State…

Member of Brooklyn-Based “KavKaz Nation” Crime Syndicate Indicted for Extortion and Other Charges

A five-count indictment was filed yesterday in federal court in Brooklyn charging Roman Nikoghosyan, a member of a violent, Brooklyn-based Eurasian organized crime syndicate that operated primarily in the Manhattan Beach and…

Former CEO Of Publicly Traded Houston Company Pleads Guilty To Accounting Fraud Scheme

Ilan Graff, Attorney for the United States, Acting under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, announced today the guilty plea of JEFFREY HASTINGS, the former chief executive officer and chairman of the…

Lawsuit alleges SNL staff engaged in culture of taking advantage of young girls as former castmember sued for sexual assault

A lawsuit has been filed in New York’s Supreme Court against former SNL castmember Horatio Sanz, NBC Universal Media and SNL Studios claiming the actor sexually assaulted a minor on several occasions…

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Lambda variant causing havoc in South America, nearly 1,000 cases reported in U.S.

Several countries in South America are experiencing coronavirus surges due to the lambda variant, which studies show could prove more evasive to vaccines, the New York Post reported. First identified in Peru,…

US and World News

Watch: Naked Hunter Biden tells hooker that his Russian drug dealer stole his laptop

Joe Biden’s son Hunter is once again in the news, this time he’s nude and talking to his prostitute about another laptop, this one stolen by his Russian drug dealer. This laptop…

Afghans awake to Taliban fighters in three major cities today

The Taliban took control of three major cities in Afghanistan’s southwest region as the insurgents set their sights on the capital city of Kabul. The Taliban, a powerful political and military group in Afghanistan,…

US and World News

California surf instructor killed his two kids, claims they had “Serpent DNA”

A federal criminal complaint filed Wednesday charges a California surfing school owner for allegedly taking his two children to Mexico and killing them, according to federal authorities. Matthew Taylor Coleman, 40, of…

California News·Police Blotter

Watch as Aaron Judge launches home run into Field of Dreams cornfield

It has been a game in the making since the 1989 Kevin Costner hit movie Field of Dreams, a real Major League Baseball game played on the site of the legendary Iowa…

Local Sports News

Four Defendants Arrested in Multimillion-Dollar Counterfeit Goods Trafficking Scheme

A 14-count indictment was unsealed yesterday in federal court in Brooklyn charging seven defendants with participating in a counterfeit goods scheme in which they imported generic goods into the United States from…

Muse Muse, The First Of Three Lansing Men To Be Sentenced For Conspiring To Provide Material Support To Isis, Receives 78 Months In Prison

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN — United States Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that Chief United States District Judge Robert J. Jonker sentenced Muse Muse, age 22, of Lansing,…

Felon Pleads Guilty to Possession with Intent to Distribute Two Kilograms of Cocaine and Being a Felon in Possession of a Handgun

Greenbelt, Maryland – Ian Carlton Alexander a/k/a “Shawn Alexander”, age 49, of Towson, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine and being a…

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