News from April 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Amedisys Inc. and its affiliates (Amedisys) have agreed to pay $150 million to the federal government to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting false home healthcare billings to the Medicare program, the Department of Justice announced today. Amedisys, a Louisiana-based for-profit company, is one of the nation’s largest providers of home health services and operates in 37 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - Ona M. Colasante, 57, a physician from Gainesville, Florida, surrendered yesterday on charges contained in a federal indictment. U.S. Attorney Pamela C. Marsh announced the grand jury charges, which include 199 counts of health care fraud, three counts of introduction or delivery of misbranded drugs, three counts of introduction or delivery of unapproved new drugs, and five counts of money laundering.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: The Hawai`i Department of Education Maui District and Haleakalā National Park recently partnered to offer a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) workshop for Maui County STEM teachers. The objective of the collaboration was to explore different methods of teaching STEM curricula to children in both classroom and outdoor settings.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A federal grand jury in Providence on Tuesday returned a alleging that a Portsmouth, R.I., business, its owner and his wife marketed and sold in excess of $2,000,000 dollars worth of products not approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as cancer mitigation and treatment...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - The Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Atlanta Division Office is partnering with national, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials, as well as community coalition groups, to hold an eighth National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, April 26, 2014 from 10 a.m. to 2...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cited J & S Produce Corp., of Chicago, Ill., for failure to pay for produce.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, woman convicted of Larceny was sentenced on April 18, 2014, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Veronica L. Duffy.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, April 23, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LAWRENCE BLUE, 36, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Wednesday, April 23, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Justin A. Vangilder, 21, of Shiloh, Illinois, pled guilty today in federal district...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Ft. Riley man has pleaded guilty to making false material statements to the Social Security Administration, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. The defendant agreed to pay $71,734 in restitution to the SSA and an additional $250 to the United States Treasury for a stimulus payment he was not entitled to receive.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: POCATELLO - Tyler Zane Clem, 21, of North Little Rock, Arkansas, was sentenced yesterday in United States District Court to 18 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for failing to register as a sex offender, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Clem was indicted by a federal grand Jury in Pocatello on Aug. 28, 2013, and entered his guilty plea on Jan. 29, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: MANHATTAN - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James J. Hunt, the Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), announced that Craig Oleksowicz was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, today announced that a Criminal Information has been filed against a Schuylkill County firm and its Chief Officer, charging them with conspiracy to evade export reporting requirements and with attempting to smuggle to Iran a lathe machine in violation of U.S. export regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On April 26 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., local law enforcement and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will give the public its eighth opportunity in three years to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that the former director of a program that provided a home for disabled persons in Higginsville, Mo., pleaded guilty in federal court today to embezzling more than $300,000 from the organization.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: Dear Prime Minister Hasina: A year ago your country experienced a tragedy that shook the human conscience around the globe, with 1,138 garment workers killed and over 2,500 others injured in the Rana Plaza collapse. Many other garment factory disasters preceded the Rana Plaza disaster, including 112...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Moberly, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for possessing and passing counterfeit $50 bills.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: ORFOLK, Va. - David R. Flynn, 44, of Norfolk, Va., pleaded guilty today to mail fraud and unlawful monetary transactions.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Russellville, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for being an illegal alien in possession of firearms and for possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Kendal Mychael Lobb, 32, of Cameron Park, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine for receiving child pornography, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
