News from April 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: FARGO - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on April 23, 2014, Satrone Rashard Boyd, 38, of Dickinson, N.D., was sentenced before U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to serve 7 ½ years in prison for bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - 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. 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 Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore Seeking Volunteers Who Love the Backcountry: Adopt-a-Trail, Campsite or Beach.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Jesus Bustos, 58, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: Valley Forge, PA - The groundbreaking for Sullivan's Bridge, the new pedestrian/bicycle bridge across the Schuylkill River in Valley Forge National Historical Park, will occur on Thursday, May 1 at 1:00 PM. The ceremony will take place on the construction site adjacent to the Betzwood Picnic Area. Senator...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: Today, the Department of Energy recognized the Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT) for boosting its use of clean energy at the first campus in America to be heated by geothermal energy, achieving a major milestone toward its goal of making all seven schools in the Oregon University System carbon-neutral...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Charles and Traci Casey, the owners of Puff & Stuff stores in Cumberland and LaVale, Maryland, have agreed to forfeit $173,988.61, to settle claims that they sold synthetic drugs at their stores.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Johnny V. Dunaway, 66, of Lafollette, Tenn., was sentenced on Apr. 23, 2014, by the Honorable Thomas A. Varlan, Chief U.S. District Judge, to serve 12 months in prison. Dunaway was also ordered to pay restitution to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for unpaid taxes and interest.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: MCALLEN, Texas - A total of eight men residing in Weslaco have entered guilty pleas to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute narcotics, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Steven S. Whipple and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Earl Moss, 29, of Buffalo, N.Y., pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Court Judge William M. Skretny, to bank robbery and brandishing a firearm in connection with a crime of violence. The charges carry a maximum penalty of life in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Solas Jansen, 36, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today to 33 months in federal prison for his bank robbery conviction. Jansen will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: A nine-count indictment was unsealed today in United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging Naquan Reyes with the murder of Nicole Thompson to prevent her from communicating with federal law enforcement officials. Reyes was also charged with bank fraud, bank fraud conspiracy, aggravated identity theft and related offenses. The indictment was returned under seal by a federal grand jury sitting in Brooklyn, New York, on April 16, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Former Houston Police Department (HPD) officer Marcos E. Carrion, 36, has surrendered to authorities, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson today.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today released the following statement applauding a U.S. Department of Labor announcement of new protections for coal miners.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas man was sentenced in federal court today for an attempted bank robbery in Trimble, Mo., that was foiled when he was shot by a bank employee before leading law enforcement officers on a high-speed chase.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment adding two new charges against James Mazzariello, Jr., 58, of Marilla, N.Y. The new charges against Mazzariello accuse him of filing false tax returns, each of which carry a maximum penalty of three years in prison, a fine of $100,000 or both.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Sun Belt Commodities Inc. satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that David Hoffman, 40, of Rochester, N.Y., pleaded guilty before the U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa, to wire fraud. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Kan., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing two firearms.
