Friday - November 22, 2024
Federal Tipoffs Involving Colorado Newsletter for Thursday October 03, 2024 ( 4 items )  

Colo. U.S. Attorney: Epsilon Senior Executive and Sales Manager Both Sentenced for Selling Data on Millions of U.S. Consumers to Fraudsters
DENVER, Colorado, Oct. 2 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado issued the following news release on Sept. 30, 2024: Two men were sentenced to prison today for selling targeted lists of U.S. consumers for the benefit of mass-mailing fraud schemes that defrauded hundreds of thousands of Americans out of tens of millions of dollars. Following a two-week trial, a federal jury convicted Robert Reger, 57, of Boulder, Colorado, and David Lytle, 64, of Leawood, Kansas, of cons  more

Colo. U.S. Attorney: Precision Toxicology Agrees to Pay $27M to Resolve Allegations of Unnecessary Drug Testing and Illegal Remuneration to Physicians
DENVER, Colorado, Oct. 3 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado issued the following news release: Precision Toxicology, doing business as Precision Diagnostics, has agreed to pay $27 million to resolve alleged violations of the False Claims Act and similar state statutes for billing Medicare, Medicaid and other federal health care programs for medically unnecessary urine drug tests, and for providing free items to physicians who agreed to refer expensive laboratory tes  more

Justice Department and Colorado Judiciary Improve Language Access in Courts for Individuals With Limited English Proficiency
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Oct. 2, 2024: * * * Note: View the release in Somali here (https://www.justice.gov/media/1371931/dl). * * * The Justice Department announced today that the Colorado Judiciary has taken significant steps to ensure meaningful language access for people with limited English proficiency (LEP) who interact with the state court system. In July 2023, the department's Civil Rights Division engaged the Colorad  more

Reclamation to conduct annual emergency siren test at Leadville Mine Drainage Tunnel Water Treatment Plant
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation issued the following news release: LOVELAND, Colo. The Bureau of Reclamation will test the emergency siren system at its water treatment plant near Mountain Valley Estates in Leadville, Colorado on October 16, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. The siren will blast three times; afterwards, instructions in English and then Spanish will broadcast and repeat. Again, this will only be a test to confirm system functioning. The emerge  more