Security News in Brief: Four Individuals Charged with Long-Running Global Pump-and-Dump Scheme

Source: United States Department of Justice News

BOSTON – Three Canadian nationals and one former California attorney, who is believed to be residing in Mexico, have been charged in connection with a long-running international securities fraud scheme in which they allegedly sold millions of shares in multiple microcap—or “penny”—stock companies during pump-and-dump schemes, generating at least tens of millions of dollars in illicit proceeds.

Security News in Brief: Members of Brooklyn-Based “Ninedee Gang” Indicted for Racketeering and the Murder of a Former Federal Witness

Source: United States Department of Justice News

Earlier today, a nine-count superseding indictment was unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn charging four members of the Ninedee Gang, a violent street gang based at the Louis H. Pink Houses (“Pink Houses”) in East New York, with racketeering, murder in-aid-of racketeering, drug trafficking, firearms offenses and robbery.

Security News in Brief: County Medical Center and County Agree to Pay $11.4 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Relating to Medically Unnecessary Inpatient Admissions

Source: United States Department of Justice

San Mateo County Medical Center and San Mateo County (collectively SMMC), located in California, have agreed to pay approximately  $11.4 million to resolve alleged violations of the False Claims Act for submitting or causing the submission of claims to Medicare for non-covered inpatient admissions.

Security News in Brief: Washington State and New Jersey Men are First to Plead Guilty to Assaulting Law Enforcement in Jan. 6 Capitol Breach

Source: United States Department of Justice News

A Washington State man and New Jersey man each pleaded guilty today to assaulting Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, which disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress that was in the process of ascertaining and counting the electoral votes related to the presidential election.