News from July 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: Stephen Herndon and Scott Ellis admit to structuring currency transactions to generate cash for kickbacks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A federal grand jury today indicted three Southern California residents in a scheme to defraud health insurance programs by submitting bills for more than $50 million in medically unnecessary medical procedures performed on insurance beneficiaries who received free or discounted cosmetic surgery.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. Yellowstone National Park. P.O. Box 168. Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190. July 16, 2014 14-048. Al Nash or Dan Hottle. (307) 344-2015. YELL_Public_Affairs@nps.gov. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK NEWS RELEASE. Public Comment Sought On Lamar Buffalo Ranch...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that five more defendants who were witnesses in the U.S. v. Mateo B. Sardoma, Jr. aka “Mat", Rudy P.H. Sablan, Maria C. Edrosa aka “Cristina", et al. trial were sentenced by Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood, as follows.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Christopher Payton, a former specialist for the Social Security Administration in Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for soliciting more than $50,000 in bribes from Social Security recipients in return for providing them with extra, unauthorized benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Richard L. Walker, Special Agent in Charge of the Atlanta Regional Office, United States Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General, Office of Labor Racketeering and Fraud Investigations, Jesse Panuccio, Executive Director...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: Then Labor Secretary: “Off-the-record here-Wanted to ask you if you could help us get folks organized to come to a fundraiser that we’re doing for Organizing for America for Obama campaign"
By State Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, participated in the annual North Korea Freedom Rally to highlight the abysmal human rights conditions in North Korea.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: OXFORD, Ala. -- About 400 law enforcement officers from northeast Alabama and northwest Georgia will attend safety training on Thursday in Oxford to better prepare them for potential encounters with domestic extremists, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr., and Oxford Police Chief Bill Partridge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO ― A former North Chicago school board member was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison for receiving at least $566,000 in kickbacks from three co-defendants who controlled several different transportation companies that received more than $21 million in student bus contracts over nearly a decade.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Receipt of Child Pornography was sentenced on July 15, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: Restrictions on Campfires in Wilderness Areas Below 6,000 Feet in Elevation.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing with witnesses Kay Daly and Joyce Greenleaf from the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General. HHS OIG recently released reports detailing inconsistencies in applications...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: “Personal Assistant" Fraud Case Where Patient Found Dead of Neglect is Affirmed By Court of Appeals.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - Tokutek, Inc., a Lexington-based software development company, has agreed to pay $120,000 to resolve allegations that it failed to create and maintain accurate time records reflecting work allegedly performed by its employees related to a National Science Foundation (NSF) award.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - John Sumo, 27, a Liberian national with no permanent address in the United States, was sentenced on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Providence to 30 months in federal prison for his role in a sophisticated counterfeit check cashing scheme which resulted in the loss of more than $800,000...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: U.S. Senator David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, made the following statement regarding the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) announcement that they would withdraw a rule that would allow the agency to garner wages from individual citizens.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Independence, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT), today highlighted a new GAO report entitled, “MEDICAID: Assessment of Variation among States in Per-Enrollee Spending," which details variations in state Medicaid...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever, III, sentenced MICHAEL THOMAS BASSETT, JR., 33, of Portsmouth, Ohio, to 210 months imprisonment followed by 20 years supervised release.
