News from April 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that LANA CAROLE KELLEY, age 38, of Claremore, Oklahoma, pled guilty to EMBEZZLEMENT AND THEFT FROM INDIAN TRIBAL ORGANIZATION, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1163.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: Jennifer R. Ransom Guilty of One Count of Securities Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: VICTORIA, Texas - Citizens Medical Center, a county-owned hospital in Victoria, has agreed to pay the United States $21,750,000 to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by engaging in improper financial relationships with referring physicians, the Justice Department announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senators on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) raised questions about possibly troubled information technology projects in the U.S. Treasury on Monday.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: Acevedo Prosecuted Under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: Munising, Michigan -Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore joins parks, programs and partners across the country to encourage everyone to find their park and share their stories online at FindYourPark.com. Launched last week by the National Park Service and the National Park Foundation, Find Your Park is...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT HONORS 12 INDIVIDUALS AND TEAMS FOR ADVANCING RIGHTS AND SERVICES FOR CRIME VICTIMS.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The government has intervened in three False Claims Act lawsuits and filed a consolidated complaint against HCR ManorCare alleging that ManorCare knowingly and routinely submitted false claims to Medicare and Tricare for rehabilitation therapy services that were not medically reasonable...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Russell Edward Johnson, age 23, of Lusby, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to distributing heroin to a person who died as a result of ingesting the heroin.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) is not a trade agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN -United States Attorney Patrick Miles announced today that a federal jury returned guilty verdicts on all counts against Ronald Bruce Myers, 56, a Nevada resident charged with conspiring with others to steal, transport, and sell motor homes throughout the United States, including...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: In another advance at the far frontiers of timekeeping by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers, the latest modification of a record-setting strontium atomic clock has achieved precision and stability levels that now mean the clock would neither gain nor lose one second in some 15 billion years*-roughly the age of the universe.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: Driver pleads guilty to murder after a car crash in the Smokies.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: Conducted his criminal activities out of several local motels.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Luis Macias-Molinas, 32, Ricardo Rosas Jr., 27, and Manuel Aguilar, aka Chino, 25, all of Laredo, have been ordered to federal prison following their convictions for drug trafficking and gun related charges, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Macias and Rosas pleaded guilty Oct. 17, 2013, while Aguilar was convicted Sept. 10, 2013.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina, was found to be one of the top ten U.S. cities in increased nuisance flooding, according to a June 2014 NOAA report. The Coastal Flood Exposure Mapper enables users to visualize these flood impacts and others in order to craft better resilience plans." (Image: NOAA)
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Four individuals, including two active duty members of the U.S. Army, have been arrested based on Criminal Complaints, charging each with one count of conspiracy to commit theft of government property. If convicted of this crime, each defendant faces not more than 5 years in federal prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A South Jersey woman who was a member of a large-scale drug trafficking organization today admitted distributing more than 100 grams of heroin, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a nine-count indictment charging Kenneth L. Jefferson, 60, of Cleveland, with unlawful possession of a postal key and eight counts of bank fraud, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In response to DEA Administrator Leonhart’s retirement, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-MD) issued the following statement.
