Road Doctor owner accused of paving way for luxury cars with PPP loan

Road Doctor California business owner accused of PPP loan fraud

The owner of a purported California road maintenance company is facing multiple charges after federal prosecutors claim he stole hundreds of thousands of dollars, which he allegedly spent on luxury cars and other high-priced goods, after obtaining more than $7.25 million in funds through the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).

Oumar Sissoko, 59, of Temecula, California, is slated to make his initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Riverside, California,...

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Ex-fleet manager accused of bilking $1.6M from company

Ex-fleet manager wire fraud charges

A federal grand jury has indicted a former fleet manager of publicly traded construction products manufacturer, alleging he defrauded his employer of $1.6 million by using company credit cards to fund his candle-making businesses, purchase first-class airline tickets and visit Hooters. 

Steven Duety, 45, of Plano, Texas, was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and nine counts of wire fraud, according to a grand jury indictment filed in the U.S. District Court for the...

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Trump pardons former congressman and maritime advocate

President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned the former congressman who had chaired the Maritime Transportation Subcommittee before being indicted for misusing campaign funds. 

Duncan Hunter, a Republican from California, had been slated to begin an 11-month prison sentence in January. 

American Shipper reported in August 2018 that Hunter, then chairman of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee of the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, had been accused, with...

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Feds execute former Louisiana trucker Friday

Alfred Bourgeois

Former Louisiana truck driver Alfred Bourgeois was put to death Friday for the brutal murder of his 2-year-old daughter in 2002, after the U.S. The Supreme Court rejected a last-minute bid by his attorneys for clemency.

Shortly after his appeal was denied, Bourgeois was put to death by lethal injection. He was pronounced dead at 8:21 p.m. EST

His legal team argued Bourgeois was intellectually disabled and that should have made him ineligible for the death penalty under federal law.

Bourgeois was...

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Linde GmbH settles US allegations of import fraud for $22 million

A big hydrogen refinery.

Linde GmbH, a German multinational corporation that makes industrial gases for transportation and other applications, and U.S. subsidiary Linde Engineering North America have agreed to pay the U.S. government $22.2 million to settle claims the company made false statements on its customs declarations to avoid import duties, the Justice Department announced Friday.

The government alleged Linde undervalued $500 million worth of products imported between 2011 and 2017 for the construction of...

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$48.9 million settlement approved over no-poaching allegations against railway suppliers

Knorr-Bremse no-poaching lawsuit

A class-action lawsuit against several railway equipment suppliers has received final court approval. Agreement on a final settlement of the suit between Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp. (Wabtec), Knorr-Bremse AG and subsidiaries and law firms Hartley LLP and Fine Kaplan and Black was achieved in February. U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania Judge Joy Flowers Conti signed off on the final settlement on Aug. 26.

Lead class counsel for the $48.9 million case was...

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