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Medicare fraud charges have been filed against six individuals in the continuing operation of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force in Houston.

In an indictment unsealed today, Bassey Monday Idiong, 30, owner of B.I. Medical Supply LLC, Linda Eteimo Ere Kendabie, 27, an administrative assistant at B.I. Medical, and Modupe Babanumi, 42, a patient recruiter for B.I. Medical, all of whom reside in the Houston area, were each charged with participating in a scheme to submit claims to Medicare for medically unnecessary durable medical equipment (DME). In many instances , the DME was not given to the purported patients. This equipment included so-called "arthritis kits," which consist of sets of orthotic braces that are purportedly used for the treatment of arthritis-related conditions.

SAN FRANCISCO – Top officials of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Civil Rights (DOJ), will jointly hold a town hall listening session to draw public input on new federal regulations and procedures to promote the hiring of people with disabilities. The forum, the first of four in major cities nationwide, will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 26 at the Greater Bay Area Regional Office, 1111 Broadway, 7th floor, Oakland, Calif.

The EEOC-DOJ listening sessions are part of a series of national initiatives by the Obama Administration to ensure fair and equal access to employment for all Americans, particularly the 54 million people in this country living with disabilities. The sessions provide direct input from the business/employer communities as well as the disability and disability advocacy community on proposed regulations in the recently enacted Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act.

DETROIT - More than 300,000 suspected counterfeit DVDs were seized over the weekend in Chicago and Detroit, following a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) investigation that originated in Detroit.

The investigation began earlier this year and yielded intelligence regarding a major reseller and online vendor of suspected counterfeit DVDs.

GREENBELT, MD—Michael Speelman, age 52, of Adelphi, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to transportation and shipment of child pornography, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein.

According to Speelman’s plea agreement, in 2004, he assumed the online identity of a 16-year-old under the name of “Lisa Stauffer.” Posing as “Lisa,” Speelman established a romantic relationship with a 15-year-old female victim, who lived in Pennsylvania. During the course of this relationship, Speelman obtained nude and sexually explicit digital images of the victim and in return, Speelman sent images purported to be “Lisa.” On March 12, 2006, Speelman feigned the suicide death of “Lisa,” but continued to correspond with the victim pretending to be Lisa’s mother, “Sarah Stauffer.” On June 19, 2006, Speelman (posing as “Sarah”) sent the victim one of the sexually explicit photos that the victim had sent to “Lisa” and threatened to send the explicit photographs to the victim’s family. In December 2007, the victim told “Sarah” that she was moving on and had a boyfriend. Posing as “Sarah,” Speelman again threatened the victim with the distribution of the explicit photographs.

OCT 20 - (Washington, D.C.) – The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will officially kick-off the National Red Ribbon Campaign on Wednesday, October 28th.

The National Red Ribbon Campaign, which is the nation’s largest drug prevention effort, began after drug traffickers in Mexico tortured and brutally murdered Special Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena in March 1985. Officially, Red Ribbon Week will be celebrated nationally from October 23-31; however, several communities and school districts hold events throughout the month.