News from August 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: A 16-count indictment was unsealed in federal court charging a Westlake cardiologist with performing unnecessary catheterizations, tests, stent insertions and causing unnecessary coronary artery bypass surgeries as part of a scheme to overbill Medicare and other insurers by $7.2 million, law enforcement officials said.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: Flagstaff Area National Monuments Superintendent Releases Updated Compendium.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Aug. 20, 2014, Robert Dale Alexander, age 45, and Maureen Louise Alexander, age 38, both of Eldridge, Iowa, were sentenced by United States District Judge James E. Gritzner on charges related to defrauding the Social Security Administration, announced United States Attorney Nicholas...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - Two Cape Cod men with extensive criminal histories were arrested and charged today with conspiring to violate federal drug laws.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) celebrates its 98th birthday on Monday, Aug. 25, Founder’s Day, and entrance is free to all fee-charging national parks in America, including Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - In celebration of the National Park Service’s 98th birthday all 401 national park units, including Grand Canyon National Park will waive entrance fees on Monday, Aug. 25, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management today lifted the closure to the area burned by the 2012 Pine Ridge Fire after evaluating the success of the rehabilitation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Andy O. Rodriguez, 26, of Allentown, PA, pleaded guilty today to defrauding the IRS of $2,904,783.64 in fraudulent tax refunds. Rodriguez pleaded guilty to all 23 counts of making false claims against the United States. U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence F. Stengel scheduled a sentencing...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: Francisco Hernandez-Sintung, a/k/a “Gabriel Munoz," a/k/a “Gavino Hernandez," 47, of Reading, PA, was charged today by indictment with illegal reentry after deportation, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that on or about April 1, 2014, Hernandez-Sintung, an alien...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - The former owner of a Lawrence-based financial services company pleaded guilty today to charges that he defrauded investors, filed false tax returns on behalf of certain clients, and then filed his own false tax returns.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: SHANKSVILLE, Pa.-Flight 93 National Memorial will honor the 40 passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 on the 13th anniversary of 9/11 with two days of special programs, culminating in the annual observance on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014. This year's commemoration will be highlighted by the...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Aug. 20, 2014, Jose Rodriguez Paz, age 31, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge James E. Gritzner to 27 months imprisonment, after pleading guilty to illegal re-entry into the United States, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: Beckley, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that a Greenbrier county man pled guilty to a federal drug charge in Beckley today. Seth Allen Carr, 24, of Alderson, admitted that on April 9, 2014, he used a telephone to facilitate a drug transaction. When he used the telephone he was...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Richard A. Ullmann, age 50, of Westport, Connecticut, pleaded guilty to making false statements to the Defense Finance Accounting Service (DFAS) in federal court in Harrisburg before Chief United States District Court...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark man was indicted by a federal grand jury today on three additional counts of producing images of child sexual abuse for allegedly abusing a prepubescent girl repeatedly and filming the abuse, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced William Metcalf, age 39, of Baltimore, today to 30 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit bank burglary. Judge Motz also entered an order requiring Metcalf to pay a money judgment of $75,000 as forfeiture.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Willie Streater with five counts of wrongful disclosure of health information, two counts of access device fraud, and one count of aggravated identity theft. If convicted, Streater faces a maximum...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: Haleakalā National Park will celebrate the 98th birthday of the National Park Service by waiving its normal entrance fee of $10 on Monday, August 25.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Aug. 19, 2014, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against 16 defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District...
