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News Release: A Florida man pleaded guilty today to conspiring to commit health care fraud in an $8.3 million scheme where pharmacy owners paid kickbacks and bribes to telemarketers and telemedicine providers to secure orders for medically unnecessary prescriptions that were billed to Medicare.
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News Release: The Justice Department announced today that Maryland-based developer Stavrou Associates Inc. and related entities have agreed to pay $185,000 to settle claims that they violated the Fair Housing Act (FHA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by failing to build 11 multifamily housing complexes ...
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News Release: A federal jury convicted a Chinese national and former Army Reservist yesterday for acting within the United States as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China.
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News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that two men, Devan Nathanial Johnson, 28, and Brandon Wayne Killian, 31, pleaded guilty to committing a hate crime in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
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News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - Jacob Paul Bermel, age 39 of Muscatine, was sentenced on Monday, Sept. 26, 2022, to 300 months in prison following his plea to charges of Production and Possession of Child Pornography. Bermel was ordered to pay $3,000 in restitution to each of his four victims, totaling $12,000.
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News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Nyron Harmon, 31, of Indianapolis, was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession with the intent to distribute fentanyl and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime.
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News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Erek L. Barron and Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division announced today that Maryland-based developer Stavrou Associates, Inc. and related entities have agreed to pay $185,000...
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News Release: A federal jury convicted a former CEO of a health clinic for defrauding the Louisiana Medicaid Program over several years.
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News Release: MIAMI - A South Florida federal district judge has sentenced William D. Foster, 50, to 60 years in prison for running a sex trafficking organization for more than 20 years that exploited dozens of vulnerable women and girls. The judge also entered a $3.4 million forfeiture money judgment against Foster and ordered him to pay over $14 million in restitution to his victims.
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News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced that John Monroe Cameron, 45, of Jena, Louisiana, has been sentenced by United States District Judge David C. Joseph for possession of heroin. Cameron was sentenced to 46 months in prison, followed by 4 years of supervised release.
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News Release: MOBILE, AL - A Selma man was sentenced to 30 months in prison for bribing a corrections officer while awaiting a federal trial for armed bank robbery.
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A federal jury recently convicted an Oklahoma man for engaging in illegal sexual behavior with three minors Sept. 22.
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News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jerrid Weaver, of Arthurdale, West Virginia, has admitted to having methamphetamine and was sentenced to 70 months of incarceration, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
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News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, and Raul Bujanda, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Albuquerque Field Office, announced that Nicholas Pinto has been charged with assault resulting in serious bodily injury and discharging a firearm during...
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News Release: CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA - The AARP of West Virginia hosted a town hall today so that its members could learn more about trends in elder fraud from the state's top federal law enforcement officials.
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News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - Jason Lauran Kinman, age 40 of Council Bluffs, was sentenced on Sept. 20, 2022, to 25 years in prison following his plea to charges of Distribution and Production of Child Pornography and Coercion and Enticement of a Minor. Kinman must also serve a 10-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
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There was activity on five bills related to the Judiciary Committee on Sept. 27.
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News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Melissa Sue Hall, 46, of South Point, Ohio, was sentenced today to five months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release with the first five months on home detention with electronic monitoring, for theft of federal funds. Hall was also ordered to pay $49,478.64 in restitution.
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News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - Stormy Shaye Cole Trucke, age 29 of Harlan, was sentenced on September 7, 2022, to 42 months in prison following his plea to a charge of Prohibited Person in Possession of a Firearm.
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News Release: A former parole officer with the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation was arrested today after being charged in federal court with civil rights violations, obstruction of justice and making false statements to federal investigators.