FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending October 5, 2012
- Headquarters: Medicare Fraud Strike Force Charges 91 Individuals
for Approximately $430 Million in False BillingMedicare Fraud Strike
Force operations led to charges against doctors, nurses, and other licensed
medical professionals in Miami, Los Angeles, Dallas, Houston, Brooklyn, Baton
Rouge, and Chicago. Full Story
- Houston: Russian Agent, 10 Others Indicted in New York
Eleven members of a Russian military procurement network operating
in the United States and Russia, as well as a Texas-based export company and a
Russia-based procurement firm, were charged with illegally exporting high-tech
microelectronics from the United States to Russian military and intelligence
agencies. Full Story
- Charlotte: Arrest Made in 1996 Murder of Jonesville Officer
Scott Vincent Sica was charged with first-degree murder for
allegedly shooting and killing Sergeant Gregory Keith Martin while he was
conducting a traffic stop. Full Story
- New York: Additional Charges Filed Against Former Madoff
EmployeesAmong other things, the superseding indictment expands the
timeframe during which the five defendants allegedly participated in a
conspiracy to defraud Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC’s investment
advisory clients. Full Story
- Dallas: FCI Fort Worth Inmate Charged in Murder-for-Hire Plot
Against Federal JudgePhillip Monroe Ballard, in federal custody on
tax charges, allegedly solicited the murder-for-hire of U.S. District Judge John
McBryde of the Northern District of Texas. Full Story
- Miami: Doctors Sentenced for Participating in $205 Million Medicare Fraud
SchemeDr. Mark Willner and Dr. Alberto Ayala, former medical
directors at the mental health care company American Therapeutic Corporation,
were each sentenced to 10 years in prison. Full
Story
- Houston: Katy Man Arrested for Making a Terroristic
Threat
Patrick Joseph Hudson allegedly made threatening comments in
an Internet chat room regarding a school shooting that was to take place
somewhere around the Katy, Texas area. The threat did not specify a particular
school but referenced elementary school children. Full Story
- San Juan: Former Mayor of Barceloneta Sentenced to 120 Months in Prison
Sol Luis Fontanes-Olivo was charged with bribery concerning programs
receiving federal funds. Full Story
- Cleveland: Hate Crimes Charges Filed Against Indiana Man for Religiously
Motivated Attack on the Islamic Center of Greater ToledoRandolph
Linn was charged with intentionally defacing, damaging, and destroying religious
real property because of the religious character of that property and using fire
and explosives to commit a felony. Full Story
- Jacksonville: Man Nets 10 Years for Arson of Reproductive Health
Facility in PensacolaBobby Joe Rogers was sentenced for the New
Year’s Day arson that destroyed the American Family Planning Clinic in
Pensacola, Florida. Full Story
