Tag: U.S. Department of Justice
Former R.I. construction manager pleads guilty to fraud and identity theft
PROVIDENCE – Gregory Meeker, a former construction manager for a Newport-based real estate development company, pleaded guilty to 12 counts of bank fraud and...
Cities, feds spar in court over immigration requirements
BOSTON (AP) — Two Rhode Island cities and the Trump administration were back in court Wednesday arguing over whether the federal government can require...
DOJ sues Omnicare and parent CVS over alleged “rollover” prescriptions for...
WOONSOCKET – The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York has filed a lawsuit against Omnicare Inc. and its parent CVS Health...
Judge rules in favor of cities in suit over grant conditions
PROVIDENCE (AP) – A federal judge has sided with two Rhode Island cities that challenged the conditions of U.S. Department of Justice public safety...
Birch School revamps vocational program for intellectually disabled students
Providence officials are hoping a recent court decision puts to rest the tarnished history of the Harold H. Birch Vocational School.
In 2013, the U.S....
Providence school district hit with open-records lawsuit over federal law...
PROVIDENCE – The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island and Rhode Island Legal Services last week filed a lawsuit against the Providence Public...
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...
