News from December 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: Owners Agree To Remedy Numerous Violations Of The Fair Housing Act And Pay $92,000 In Penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Jatin Patel, 42, and Donna Evans Moore, a/k/a Donna Evans Furguson, 38, both from Tifton, Georgia, were indicted by a Federal Grand Jury sitting in Macon, Georgia on Dec. 10, 2013, for Conspiracy to Possess...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: A former licensed mental health counselor at the defunct health provider Health Care Solutions Network Inc. (HCSN) pleaded guilty today in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., for his role in a $63 million health care fraud scheme.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Ranking Member Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Representatives Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) and John Carney (D-Del.) commended the Senate Finance Committee for including an amendment to the SGR Repeal and...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: Studies by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) indicate the dust stirred up by wind and restless cattle at dairies does contain bacteria, fungi and small bacterial remnants such as endotoxins. But these potentially problematic particles are not found at high levels far beyond the barnyard.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement regarding news that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has received its first clean, unqualified financial audit. However, the audit also found material weaknesses with DHS' internal control over financial reporting. DHS is currently responsible for managing more than $60 billion every year to carry out its mission.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Oscar De Leon, aka “Shrek," 38, of Laredo, has been convicted of multiple drug and international money laundering counts resulting from a long-term Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) investigation, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The jury returned its verdict late yesterday following a three-day trial and approximately three hours of deliberation.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: CRATER LAKE, OR - Crater Lake National Park is pleased to announce that our popular ranger-guided snowshoe walks are about to begin for the 2013-2014 winter season. The walks will start this weekend and will be offered every Saturday and Sunday at 1:00 p.m. through April 27, 2013. Walks will also be offered daily from Thursday, December 26 through Wednesday, January 1.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A former Beaumont physician and office manager have been charged with health care fraud violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) commended the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) following its announcement that it will pass a clean financial audit for the first time since its establishment in 2003.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, issued the following statement after voting in favor of the Bipartisan Budget Act, which passed in the House of Representatives today...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Fernando Santana, 27, of Providence, was sentenced today to 70 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and for violating terms of supervised release imposed at the time of sentencing on a previous federal conviction for drug trafficking, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Providence Police Chief Colonel Hugh T. Clements, Jr.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 12, 2013 - Today, the House Natural Resources Committee held an oversight hearing entitled “ESA Decisions by Closed-Door Settlement: Short-Changing Science, Transparency, Private Property, and State & Local Economies." This hearing examined the impacts of the Endangered Species...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Mission Hills, Kan., woman was indicted by a federal grand jury today for using numerous foreign trusts and secret Cayman Island bank accounts as part of a scheme to avoid paying more than $7 million in income taxes, and for lying to federal authorities concerning her Cayman Island interests.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai'i - The westbound lane fronting Steam Vents will be closed for up to 10 weeks, Monday through Thursday, while crews replace a deteriorated water main.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit of the DEA's El Paso Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Steven C. Yarbrough announced the indictment of 15 men on federal drug trafficking charges. The 15-count superseding indictment was unsealed today following an early morning multi-agency...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Lodgy Michael Jackson, 24, of Houston, TX, was sentenced to 400 months imprisonment for the murder of Jamie Benson, 28, of Houston, TX, on April 22, 2011. In February, Jackson pleaded guilty to three counts: conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute over 500 grams of cocaine; ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Dr. Marvette J. Thomas, 60, of Grambling, La., and Carra Sergeant, 60, of Ragley, La., were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote to 14 months and 12 months in prison respectively for theft of government funds. They were also ordered to pay $159,167 in restitution.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today applauded Committee action on a bipartisan package of legislative proposals to improve child welfare in America. The Supporting At-Risk Children Act strengthens and renews adoption incentive and foster care policies; works to combat child sex trafficking; and improves the collection of meaningful child support payments from noncustodial parents living overseas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: Two patient recruiters for Miami health care companies were sentenced today for their participation in a $48 million home health Medicare fraud scheme.
