News published on Federal Newswire in March 2014

News from March 2014


Duke University Health System, Inc. Agrees To Pay $1 Million For Alleged False Claims Submitted To Federal Health Care Programs

News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina Thomas G. Walker and North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper announced jointly that Duke University Health System, Inc. (Duke University Health System) has agreed to pay $1 million to resolve allegations under the U.S. and...


News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle announced today that the lead defendants in an eighteen (18) defendant indictment who were charged with various drug-trafficking and money laundering offenses have been sentenced to lengthy prison sentences by the Honorable Rudolph T. Randa.


Grand Island Man Sentenced for Receipt and Distribution of Child Pornography

News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced today that James B. Haugh, 57, of Grand Island, Nebraska, was sentenced on March 21, in Lincoln, Nebraska, to seven and a half years in prison by United States District Judge John M. Gerrard, for receipt and distribution of child pornography. After his...


News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.


Former Cook County Official Sentenced To 51 Months In Prison For Steering Contracts In Return For Nearly $35,000 In Kickbacks

News Release: CHICAGO ― A Cook County official was sentenced today to 51 months in federal prison for steering four county contracts, each just under $25,000, to four acquaintances and then taking a portion of the contract payments as kickbacks from each of them, totaling $34,700. The defendant, EUGENE MULLINS, who...


News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, Montana, on March 18, 2014, before U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris, BRANDY LEE SALWAY, 23, of Browning, was sentenced to a term of 36 months imprisonment, three years supervised release, and a special assessment of $100.


Three Time Convicted Felon Sentenced on Drug and Gun Charges

News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jewell Wiggins, 46, of Rochester, N.Y., who was convicted of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and possessing a firearm while being a convicted felon, was sentenced to 188 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge David G. Larimer.


News Release: PLEAS (before District Judge Roger B. Cosbey:).


Garland, Texas, Man Sentenced To 20 Years In Federal Prison On Child Pornography Conviction

News Release: DALLAS - Christian James Gieseke, 39, was sentenced yesterday, by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle, to 20 years in federal prison to be followed by a 10-year term of supervised release. Less than a week prior to the start of his trial last summer, Gieseke pleaded guilty to one count of receipt of child pornography. U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas made the announcement today.


BLM Utah Seeks Comment on Environmental Assessment for August 2014 Oil and Gas Lease Sale

News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah West Desert District is seeking public comment on two environmental assessments (EA) analyzing the BLM's proposal to offer a total of 66,673 acres comprised of 35 parcels at the August 2014 oil and gas lease sale. The Salt Lake Field Office proposes to offer 64,610...


News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, March 21, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Levi M. Glick, 28, of Princeton, Indiana, pled guilty today in United States District Court in Benton to an indictment charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced...


Three Camden, N.J., Residents Charged In Conspiracy To Steal Checks From Mail And Defraud Banks In New Jersey, Pennsylvania And Delaware

News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A woman and two men from Camden were charged today for their alleged participation in a scheme in which they stole business checks from the U.S. Mail in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, altered them, and cashed them using a series of conspirators, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.


Harkin: Health Reform Has Brought $105 Million in Prescription Drug Savings, Free Preventive Services to Thousands of Iowa Seniors

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), one of the authors of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), today applauded the news from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that thousands of Iowa Medicare beneficiaries, including seniors and people with disabilities, have collectively saved...


News Release: MOBILE, AL-- The United States Attorney, Kenyen R. Brown, announces that Tony Lee Collier was sentenced to forty one months imprisonment yesterday by United States District Court Judge William H. Steele, after pleading guilty to possession of pseudoephedrine with the intent to manufacture methamphetamine...


News Release: WASHINGTON - In light of reports that Justice Department investigators have interviewed former IRS Exempt Organizations Director Lois Lerner, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) yesterday requested...


Bedford County Man Stole 31 Firearms, Transported Them To Maryland

News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Saxton, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of theft of firearms and interstate transportation of stolen firearms, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.


News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, March 21, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. On March 20, 2014, Sherman L. Allen, Jr., a/k/a “Larue," 29, of Marion, Ill., pled guilty to a one-count indictment charging Possession of a Firearm by a Felon, the United States Attorney...


News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, March 21, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. A resident of Panama, who was living illegally in the United States, in Glen Carbon, Illinois, was sentenced on March 21, 2014, on a three-count Indictment, charging him with Receipt of...


Lisbon Man Sentenced To Nine Years In Prison For Possesing Firearms Stolen In Burglary Spree

News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, March 21, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BERNARD McALLISTER, 43, of Lisbon, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport...


Bank Director Charged With Embezzling $336K In Bank Funds

News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former bank director has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of theft, embezzlement and misappropriation by a bank officer or employee, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.