KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The ring leader and two others who ran a massage parlor scheme that recruited women from China to work as prostitutes in the U.S. were sentenced in federal court last week. These sentences resulted from a…

Investigation Leads to Three Arrests and Underground Steroid Lab SACRAMENTO, Calif. A ten-month undercover investigation into an illegal anabolic steroid manufacturing ring by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has resulted in three arrests and the service of three state search…

Feds seek to seize 30 vacant cemetery plots allegedly bought using proceeds from scheme LOS ANGELES - A local immigration attorney and two of his business associates were arrested last Thursday on federal criminal charges for allegedly orchestrating a decade-long…

WASHINGTON The United States has reached a settlement with ranchers in a longstanding dispute over livestock trespasses on public lands in Nye and Esmeralda Counties, Nevada. As part of the settlement, Benjamin J. Colvin and Colvin Cattle Company acknowledged past…

Las Vegas, NV Thomas F. Gentile age 56 and Julio C. Martinez age 61, both of Las Vegas, Nevada, have been arrested on multiple charges of theft, mortgage fraud, identity theft and forgery. An arrest warrant has been issued for…

An Administrative Law Judge has dismissed a Federal Trade Commission administrative complaint alleging that the respondents were responsible for the deceptive advertising of an herbal remedy that was falsely advertised as a cure for cancer. Although Chief Administrative Law Judge…

Defendant Used Fraudulent Deed to Obtain More Than $130,000 in Equity from Residence in Bankruptcy Proceeding SAN JOSE, CAVallejo, Calif., resident Myra Holmes was indicted by a federal grand jury with concealment of assets and bank fraud, according to United…

ALEXANDRIA, VAPreston David Pinkett II, age 70, of Arlington, Va., was sentenced to 36 months in prison for engaging in a massive Ponzi scheme that raised more than $40 million in fraudulent payments from investors. Pinkett was also sentenced to…

WASHINGTON - The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is warning Veterans not to give credit card numbers over the phone to callers claiming to update VA prescription information. "America's Veterans have become targets in an inexcusable scam that dishonors their…

WASHINGTONThe former director of sales and marketing for Pacific Consolidated Industries LP (PCI) pleaded guilty today to charges related to the bribery of a U.K. Ministry of Defense (UK-MOD) official in order to obtain lucrative equipment contracts with the U.K.…

More than $750,000 in forfeited funds from an embezzlement scheme by a Peruvian military officer have been transferred to the government of Peru. The forfeited funds were taken from the private account of Marco Antonio Rodriguez Huerta, a former Peruvian…

A retailer of rayon towels will be barred from making false claims that mislead consumers into thinking that its products are "biodegradable," under a proposed settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. The settlement with Dyna-E International and its owner George…