News from January 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: The government has intervened in eight False Claims Act lawsuits against Health Management Associates Inc. (HMA) alleging that HMA billed federal health care programs for medically unnecessary inpatient admissions from the emergency departments at HMA hospitals and paid remuneration to physicians in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
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By EPA Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Vice Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) issued the following statement in response to the Department of Health and Human Services’ latest health care enrollment report...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after Ranking Member George Miller (D-CA) announced he will retire at the end of the 113th Congress...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City, Kan., man was sentenced Monday to 25 years in federal prison on charges arising from an armed robbery and carjacking, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), in conjunction with other agencies within the Department of the Interior, will waive recreation-related day-use fees for visitors to the National System of Public Lands for Martin Luther King, Jr., Day (January 20); Presidents' Day weekend (February 15 - 17); National...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Subcommittee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) today made the following statement on the Wall Street Journal’s reporting that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was not expecting criminal charges in the investigation of the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting scandal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - U.S. Attorney David J. Hickton announced today that the Western District of Pennsylvania collected $24,480,775.61 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2013. Additionally, the Western District of Pennsylvania worked with other U.S. Attorney’s Offices and components of the Department of Justice to collect an additional $5,702,777.80 in cases pursued jointly with these offices.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rakecia Matrese Brame, formerly of Greensboro, N.C., and now of Grand Prairie, Texas, pleaded guilty on Jan. 10, 2014, to identity theft, tax, and fraud charges, the Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. Brame pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington has sentenced Keire Terrell Harvey (24, Clearwater) to 10 years and 10 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute 28 grams or more of crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: HONOLULU - After a five-day trial in the United States Court in Honolulu, a federal jury found Matthew Zmuda, 29, of Kauai, guilty on Friday, Jan. 10, of conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute, 50 grams or more of methamphetamine from January to April 2012, as well as attempting...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Vice Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) issued the following statement in response to the Department of Health and Human Services’ latest health care enrollment report...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - All Fabrics, Incorporated, an importer based in California, was sentenced today for defrauding U.S. Customs to avoid paying duties on textile shipments.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Chandara Sam, 31, of Lowell, Massachusetts was sentenced to 168 months in prison, having pled guilty to the charge of conspiracy to distribute at least 100 grams of heroin. United States District Judge William K. Sessions III, sitting in Burlington, also sentenced Sam to 4 years of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area will be observing Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday on Monday January 20th by authorizing free backcountry camping permits and one night of free camping at Alum Ford Campground. Take advantage of the cool weather to camp out with no bugs and humidity! For more information about the fee waivers, you may call the Bandy Creek Visitor Center at (423) 286-7275.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Richard Brown, age 28, of Lanham, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute phencyclidine (PCP).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington felon faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to a federal firearm possession charge, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today. Jerry T. Kinney, 29, pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. On September 5, 2013, Kinney illegally possessed a.45 caliber pistol near Huntington.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a New Fairfield, Conn., man and a Chickamauga, Ga., woman were convicted in federal court today of making false claims for tax refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: BOISE - U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced today that Fernando Manuel Soares, 53, of Wendell, Idaho, was sentenced today for distribution of methamphetamine. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge sentenced Soares this afternoon to 72 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release. He pleaded guilty to the charge on Oct. 21, 2013. Judge Lodge fined Soares $1,000, and ordered him to forfeit $10,000 in proceeds of the offense and $2,292 in seized currency.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Vice Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) issued the following statement in response to the Department of Health and Human Services’ latest health care enrollment report...
