News from June 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Jason Cole Votrobek and Roland Rafael Castellanos, owners of the “Atlanta Medical Group," have been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison, respectively. Both Votrobek and Castellanos were convicted on March 26, 2014, after a month-long jury trial on federal drug and money laundering charges for owning and operating a ‘pill mill’ pain clinic which served as a front for the mass distribution of addictive pain killers.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 19, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Department of Health and Human Services this week responded to a recent letter from House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Jeff Sessions (R-AL) regarding the department’s legal authority to issue payments under the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Harrisburg-area health care services provider was charged on June 18th by a federal grand jury with making false statements relating to health care matters, money laundering, and identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- Five of seven people indicted late last month in overlapping identity theft and illegal gun-purchasing conspiracies were arraigned today in federal court. The two other defendants, including Quantrey Kantrell Bryant, who is charged with both conspiracies, were arraigned on their charges earlier. All seven were arrested June 10.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2014
News Release: A former clerk in the Vital Records Division of the Wayne County Clerk’s Office pleaded guilty to bribery charges, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2014
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. -The last defendant in a group that conducted an armed home invasion on the Coushatta Tribal Reservation pleaded guilty, U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 19, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today led the committee to report three nominees to be members of the Social Security Advisory Board: Drs. Henry Aaron, Lanhee Chen and Alan Cohen. Dr. Aaron was approved by a 13-11 vote and Drs. Chen and Cohen were approved unanimously.
By State Newswire | Jun 19, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Ranking Member Bob Corker (R-TN), along with Senators Chris Coons (D-DE), Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Edward J. Markey (D-MA), and Mike Johanns (R-NE) introduced the Energize Africa Act, a bill seeking to help contribute ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 19, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) responded to today’s reports that scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta were exposed to live anthrax. The committee has been active in conducting oversight of safety lapses at CDC’s bioterror lab.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2014
News Release: A woman who defrauded two insurance companies out of more than $170,000 in sales commissions was sentenced today to more than three years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A federal grand jury sitting in San Antonio, Texas, has indicted Angus Kelly McGinty, 50, a former Texas state district court judge in Bexar County, Texas, on bribery, extortion and wire fraud charges, announced Damon P. Martinez, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico, and Christopher Combs, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2014
News Release: NEW YORK - Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, James J. Hunt, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton and Joseph A. D’amico, Superintendent of the New York State Police, ...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 19, 2014
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) has determined that a gravel bar commonly used in the past for 'bush' airplane landings on the Charley River in Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve is no longer safe for such use.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich yesterday sentenced Alex Gonzalez-Arango (39, Buenaventura, Colombia) to 19 years and 7 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine while onboard a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Gonzalez-Arango pleaded guilty on March 11, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Mercer County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today highlighted a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report entitled, Medicaid Program Integrity: Increased Oversight Needed to Ensure Integrity of Growing Managed Care Expenditures, which found...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, June 18, 2014 – The U.S. Forest Service is seeking public comment on a proposal addressing water provided for ski areas on national forest lands through the permitting process. The proposal would help to ensure public winter recreation opportunities on Forest Service lands are available in the long term.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: In 2010, Congress passed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act with bipartisan support to help ensure every American child has to the nutritious food they need to perform well in school and grow into healthy adults. With one-third of American children obese or overweight, the law was designed to help reduce ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: An office worker pleaded guilty today in connection with a health care fraud scheme involving Anna Nursing Services Corp. (Anna Nursing), a defunct home health care company.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: The Justice Department’s Civil Division announced today that RMCN Credit Services Inc. (RMCN), of McKinney, Texas, and the Texas residents who own it, Doug and Julie Parker, have agreed to settle a federal court case charging them with falsely disputing negative information on consumers’ credit reports ...
