Illinois School Official Sentenced for $1.5 Million Chicken Wing Theft Operation
CHICAGO, IL — Vera Liddell, a former food service director for the Harvey School District 152 near Chicago, has been sentenced to nine years in prison after pleading guilty to stealing $1.5…
Fairfield Woman Admits Embezzling $1.5 Million
Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CAROLINA GUERRENO, 49, of Fairfield, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge…
Albuquerque man sentenced to more than 5 years in prison for auto loan fraud schemes exceeding $1.5 million
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced today that Rick Benavidez, 47, of Albuquerque, was sentenced in federal court to five years and…
Brockton Man Charged with Fraudulently Obtaining Over $1.5 Million in COVID-Relief Funds
BOSTON – A Brockton man was charged on July 21, 2022 in connection with a scheme to submit false applications to obtain Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program…
Brighton Man Arrested for $1.5 Million COVID-Relief Fraud
BOSTON – The owner of a Massachusetts-based food truck business has been arrested and charged in connection with allegedly filing fraudulent loan applications in order to obtain $1.5 million in pandemic relief…
Mexico Pledges $1.5 Billion To U.S. For Border Security Amid Migrant, Drug Surge
Mexico Pledges $1.5 Billion To U.S. For Border Security Amid Migrant, Drug Surge Jennie Taer on July 13, 2022 Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador pledged $1.5 billion for U.S. border security…
Georgia Woman Sentenced To More Than Three Years In Federal Prison For Over $1.5 Million Wire Fraud Scheme
Orlando, Florida – U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza has sentenced Theresea Walker (30, Fairburn, GA) to three years and six months in federal prison for wire fraud. She was also ordered…
West Virginia Hospital to Pay $1.5 Million to Settle Allegations Concerning Impermissible Financial Relationships with Referring Physicians
WHEELING – Weirton Medical Center, a hospital located in Weirton, West Virginia, has agreed to pay $1.5 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting or…
War has killed 1.5% of Syria’s population: U.N. estimate
By Emma Farge GENEVA – The U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday that 306,887 civilians had been killed in Syria during the conflict since March 2011, or about 1.5 % of…
UK body to recommend 4-5% pay rise for 1.5 million health workers – Guardian
LONDON – British public-sector health workers should receive an annual pay rise of 4-5% this year, a government advisory body plans to recommend, according to a report in the Guardian newspaper on…
Credit Suisse plans to call $1.5 billion AT1 instrument
ZURICH – Credit Suisse plans to call its $1.5 billion 7.125% high-trigger Tier 1 capital instrument for redemption on July 29, it said on Thursday. “This call is subject to successful completion…
U.S. Attorney Announces $1.5 Million Settlement With Tzumi Innovations, LLC For Selling Unregistered Antimicrobial Household Products During The Covid-19 Pandemic
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Lisa F. Garcia, Regional Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”), announced today that the United States…
South Shore Landscaper Pleads Guilty to Underreporting $1.5 Million in Taxable Income
BOSTON – The owner of a residential and commercial landscaping business operating in the South Shore area pleaded guilty today in connection with his failure to report approximately $1.5 million in income…
Bank of Canada hikes rates to 1.5%, says will act ‘more forcefully’ if needed
OTTAWA, June 1 (Reuters)- The Bank of Canada on Wednesday raised its policy interest rate to 1.5% from 1.0%, its second consecutive 50-basis-point hike, and said it was prepared to act “more…
Spain retail sales rise 1.5% y/y in April
(Reuters) – Spanish retail sales rose 1.5% in April from a year earlier on a seasonally and calendar-adjusted basis, after falling 4.1% in March, the National Statistics Institute (INE) said on Friday.…
Sixth Street Drugs Agrees To Pay $1.5 Million To Resolve Allegations That It Filled Illegitimate Controlled Substances Prescriptions
The pharmacy will also be subject to a three-year Memorandum of Agreement with the Drug Enforcement Administration GRAND RAPIDS – Sixth Street Drugs, Inc., a Munson Healthcare…
Chinese city offers Nobel Prize winners $1.5 million housing subsidies
BEIJING – The industrialised Chinese coastal city of Wuxi is offering Nobel Prize winners up to 10 million yuan ($1.48 million) in housing subsidies to attract top talent in a national economy…
Orange County Man Sentenced to 2½ Years in Federal Prison for Fraudulently Obtaining $1.5 Million in COVID-Relief Loans
SANTA ANA, California – An Orange County man was sentenced today to 30 months in federal prison for fraudulently obtaining more than $1.5 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) COVID-relief loans…
Greenwich Resident Sentenced to 3 Years in Federal Prison for Defrauding Investors of Nearly $1.5 Million
Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SAMUEL KLEIN, 66, of Greenwich, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to…
Slidell Resident Sentenced to 120 Months for Conspiring to Distribute Five Kilograms or More of Cocaine, 280 Grams or More of Crack, And 1.5 Kilograms or More of Heroin
NEW ORLEANS, LA – U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that on April 28, 2022 U.S. District Court Judge Wendy B. Vitter sentenced KENDRICK DEMOURELLE, age 40, a resident of Slidell,…
California Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for a $1.5 Million Money Laundering Conspiracy
Greenbelt, Maryland – U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced Brandon Ross, a/k/a “Shaba X”, age 33, of Los Angeles, California to 18 months in federal prison, followed by three years of…
Biden Action On Gas Prices Will Only Affect 1.5% Of Gas Stations, Save Some Americans 10 Cents
Biden Action On Gas Prices Will Only Affect 1.5% Of Gas Stations, Save Some Americans 10 Cents Thomas Catenacci on April 13, 2022 President Joe Biden’s recent action to address record-high gasoline…
Growth in Germany to fall to 1.5%, labour minister warns – Bild am Sonntag
BERLIN – Germany’s economic growth could fall to 1.4%-1.5% this year, from 2.7% in 2021, with an average of around 590,000 people on reduced-hours lay-off schemes over the course of the year,…
Two Men Sentenced to Combined 13 Years in $1.5 Million Apple Gift Card Scheme
The perpetrators of a $1.5 million Apple gift card scheme have been sentenced to a combined 13 years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E.…
France’s Sanofi offers 1.5 billion euro bond linked to access to medicine
(Reuters) – French healthcare group Sanofi said it had priced a first sustainability-linked bond issue that will be indexed on access to medicines, and worth 1.5 billion euros ($1.7 billion). The company…
Georgia Woman Pleads Guilty To More Than $1.5 Million In Fraud
Orlando, Florida – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Theresea Walker (30, Fairburn) has pleaded guilty to wire fraud. Walker faces up to 20 years in federal prison. The sentencing…
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