News from July 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Medical device manufacturer TranS1, Inc., now known as Baxano Surgical, Inc., has agreed to pay the United States $6 million to resolve allegations under the civil False Claims Act that the company caused health care providers to submit false claims to Medicare and other federal health care programs for minimally-invasive spine surgeries.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2013
News Release: OAKLAND - Raymond David Lopez was sentenced today to 51 months in prison for a string of bank robberies he committed in May and June of 2012, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 3, 2013
Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 360,000 metric tons of soft red winter wheat for delivery to China during the 2013/2014 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Martin J. Dickman, Inspector General of the Railroad Retirement Board (“RRB-OIG"), George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Barry L. Kluger...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on July 2, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, CINDY LEE JOHNSON, a 34-year-old resident of Clearfield, Utah, pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Sentencing has been set for October 7, 2013. She is currently detained.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2013
News Release: Jackson, Miss. -- Robert Nikita Shegog, 40, of Terry, Mississippi, pled guilty in U.S. District Court today to bribery, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 3, 2013
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comment on a preliminary environmental assessment that analyzes a proposal to lease approximately 1,789 acres of federal coal reserves beneath BLM, U.S. Forest Service-managed lands and private land in Delta County, Colo., adjacent to the existing Bowie II Mine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2013
News Release: As Part of these Pleas: Saquan Evans Admits to Killing 20 Month Old Child, Shooting Four People, Gun Possessions and Possessing Substantial Gang Paraphernalia. Ernest Hester Admits to a Shooting, Gun Possessions and a Gang Assault at a Denny’s Restaurant in Syracuse. SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2013
News Release: Contact: Public Information Officer. Number: (313) 234-4310. COLUMBUS, Ohio - James E. Johnston, a/k/a “Monk," 50, of Columbus was sentenced to 72 months in prison, five years of supervised release, a $1,000 fine, and ordered to forfeit three real estate properties located in Columbus for...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2013
News Release: IRVIN F. HINGLE, a/k/a “JIFF" HINGLE, age 61, a resident of Belle Chasse, Louisiana, was sentenced today to 46 months imprisonment by U. S. District Judge Sarah R. Vance after he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy, announced U. S. Attorney Dana J. Boente. In addition to the term of imprisonment, Judge Vance ordered that HINGLE be placed on two years of supervised release following the term of imprisonment, pay a $10,000 fine and a $100.00 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Quentin Collick and Deatrice Williams were each found guilty this week of one count of conspiring to defraud the United States by filing fraudulent federal income tax returns, three counts of wire fraud, and three counts of aggravated identity theft, announced George L. Beck, Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama. Collick was also convicted of three counts of theft of public money.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on July 3, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, ARIK ALAN MACBLANE, a 33-year-old resident of Williston, North Dakota, pled guilty to conspiracy to possess methamphetamine with intent to distribute and distribution. Sentencing has been set for October 7, 2013. He is currently detained.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Christopher A. Crofts announced today that on July 1, 2013, Phoebe Dawn Soundingsides, a 28-year-old enrolled Northern Arapaho woman from Arapahoe, Wyoming, appeared in Federal District Court for sentencing before Chief United States District Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on a single...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on July 3, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, JOSEPH DANIEL CAPEHART, a 28-year-old resident of Miles City, pled guilty to distribution of methadone. Sentencing has been set for October 7, 2013. He is currently detained.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO -JAMES DOUGLAS CASSITY pled guilty today before United States District Judge Jean C. Hamilton to participating in a fraudulent scheme involving the sale of prearranged funeral contracts and misappropriation of insurance premiums. Cassity faces up to 115 months in prison for his role.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that on July 2, 2013, in Billings, after a federal district court trial before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, DEREK TYSON BELLAMY, a 31-year-old resident of Billings, was found guilty of being a felon-in-possession of a firearm. Sentencing is set for Oct. 21, 2013. He is currently detained.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 3, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today commented on the Forest Service’s issuance of a memorandum on the transition to young growth that will provide direction to the Tongass:
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jennifer Janice Morgan, 21, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Ganado, Ariz., N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to harboring and concealing a person for the purpose of preventing his arrest on an arrest warrant. Morgan, who has been in federal custody since her arrest on May 30, 2013, was sentenced to a year in prison, which was suspended, and a year of probation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sound Inpatient Physicians Inc. will pay $14.5 million to settle allegations that it overbilled Medicare and other federal health care programs, the Justice Department announced today. Sound Physicians is a Tacoma, Wash.-based provider of hospitalists and other physicians to hospitals and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2013
News Release: Firearms, Drugs, Police Gear, Stun Guns, and Counterfeit Currency Recovered.
