Tag: U.S. Department of Justice
Former U.S. House candidate sentenced to 3 years, ordered to pay...
PROVIDENCE – Harold R. Taub of Cranston was sentenced to serve 36 months in prison and was ordered to pay $1.1 million in restitution...
Lincoln-based wholesaler admits to selling misbranded drugs
PROVIDENCE – A wholesaler operating out of Lincoln, Jeffrey Guzman, pleaded guilty to selling more than 500,000 capsules of a misbranded drugs Thursday in...
R.I. woman charged in $10M wire fraud scheme
PROVIDENCE - A Rhode Island woman who allegedly ran a $10 million fraud scheme was charged with wire fraud in U.S. District Court in...
CVS pays $535K in civil penalties over alleged filling of invalid...
PROVIDENCE – CVS Health Corp. has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $535,000 to resolve federal allegations that the company’s retail stores violated...
West Warwick man indicted for $14M Ponzi scheme
WEST WARWICK – Thomas Huling of West Warwick allegedly ran a $14 million, decade-long Ponzi scheme, defrauding investors of roughly $6 million, according to...
Equine insurance agent sentenced for $1.3M fraud scheme
PROVIDENCE – Randall N. Levesque, owner of Equine Insurance Services LLC and Randall Levesque Agency, has been sentenced to 36 months in federal prison...
Myrus appointed acting U.S. Attorney for District of R.I.
PROVIDENCE – Richard B. Myrus has been named acting U.S. attorney for the District of Rhode Island, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday.
Myrus...
New York Post: Judge likely to block CVS-Aetna merger
PROVIDENCE – The judge presiding over the CVS Health Corp. acquisition of Aetna Inc. is likely to block the companies from merging, the New...
Kilmartin and others beat DOJ over rule blocking ‘sanctuary city’ law-enforcement...
PROVIDENCE – R.I. Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin and six other state attorneys general, as well as the District Attorney for New York City,...
St. Elizabeth Community receives $400K federal grant for anti-elder-abuse training
WARWICK – The U.S. Department of Justice has awarded a three-year, $400,000 grant to Saint Elizabeth Community, to increase and strengthen training about abuse...