News from December 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña announced today that the Northern District of Texas collected $13,130,113.54 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2014. Of this amount, $9,419,602.42 was collected in criminal actions and $3,710,511.12 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Hernan Cortez Villasenor (Cortez), 40, of Michoacàn, Mexico, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for his involvement in a toxic marijuana cultivation operation in the Greenhorn Creek area of the Sequoia National Forest in Kern County, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Cortez was also ordered to pay $3,328 in restitution to the U.S. Forest Service for the damage caused by his marijuana cultivation operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A federal judge has found former Kansas City builder F. Jeffrey Miller violated the terms of his release from federal prison after hearing evidence Miller was involved in a new real estate scam, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said Monday.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: Tristram J. Coffin, United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, stated that Roy Aubie, 58, of Québec, Canada, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge William K. Sessions III, to 60 months in prison for the distribution of child pornography. Aubie was also sentenced to eight years of supervised release after the completion of his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: Ninth Defendant Convicted In Connection With Health Care Fraud At The Cropsey Medical Clinic In Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Dec. 1, 2014, Samuel Davis Everson III, 48, Minot, N.D., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland on a charge of possession of firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon. Everson pleaded guilty to the charge on.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: Urbana, Ill. - JB Brown, Jr., aka Cocoa, 37, of the 400 block of Circle Drive, St. Anne, Ill., was sentenced today to a term of 174 months (14 years, 6 months) in federal prison for trafficking heroin and possession of a firearm by a felon, as announced by Jim Lewis, U.S. Attorney for the Central District...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - Regional Home Care, Inc., (d/b/a North Atlantic Medical Services) (NAMS), a durable medical equipment supplier based in Leominster, Mass., has agreed to pay $852,378 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting claims to Medicare and Medicaid for respiratory care services provided by unlicensed personnel. NAMS provides equipment and services for the treatment of respiratory ailments, such as oxygen deficiency and sleep apnea.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: Applications available to host official park anniversary events.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: A man who illegally obtained a passport and social security benefits was sentenced on Nov. 25, 2014, to 12 months’ imprisonment.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) made the following statement regarding the one-year tax extender bill that Republicans introduced today and plan to bring to the floor later this week (HR 5771)...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) intends to award up to six concession contracts for providing mountaineering guide services to the public within Denali National Park and Preserve. The proposed contracts will have a term of Jan. 1, 2016 through Dec. 31, 2025.
