News from August 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2015
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: Jeffrey Sponseller, O.D. of Augusta, Sponseller Eye Care One, P.C., and S&H Eye Care, LLC, currently doing business as “Eye Care One," have agreed to pay the United States a total of $275,000.00 to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting or causing the submission of false claims to federal and state healthcare programs for services that were either inadequately performed or not performed at all.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2015
News Release: AUSTIN, Texas - In Austin, 18 individuals have been sentenced over the past two days to federal prison terms for their roles in a cocaine and methamphetamine distribution operation announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2015
News Release: 15 Methamphetamine Distributors Indicted in Federal Court - 29 Methamphetamine-Related Offenders Charged in State Court.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2015
News Release: In the interest of public safety, due to the approach of Tropical Storm Erika, Everglades and Dry Tortugas National Parks will be closing to visitors at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, August 29.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2015
News Release: The former manager of Castalia Farms was charged this week for his role in a conspiracy in which he submitted false invoices to his employer in returns for kickbacks and other services from vendors, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland office.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 28, 2015
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today released the beta version of a new smartphone application called “B4UFLY" for testing by up to 1,000 unmanned aircraft users.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2015
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. -Eric Allen Forsyth, 37, of Tigard, Oregon, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015, to 12 years in federal prison following his federal conviction for possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine. When the defendant is released from prison, he will serve five years of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2015
News Release: GREENSBORO - Higher numbers of visitors are heading to Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, and they’re having a good time while they’re there, according to a recent report.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2015
News Release: Dr. Kerri Crawford will present a program on sand dune restoration on September 10 at 9:30 a.m. at the Philip A. Hart Visitor Center Auditorium in Empire, Michigan. Dr. Crawford will discuss the latest results from her long-term restoration experiment at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore), including how the productivity and diversity of sand dune communities respond to different restoration approaches.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2015
News Release: Virginia Man Sentenced to More Than 11 Years for Providing Material Support to ISIL.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2015
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that an Eldon, Mo., woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for illegally possessing firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Mary Catherine Baumgarten, who handled the case, stated that on Dec. 26, 2013, co-defendant Michael Mitchell entered the First Niagara Bank on Lyell Avenue in Rochester, NY and passed the teller a demand note threatening the use of weapon. The bank teller froze, Mitchell left without money, and got into a car driven by Cassata who drove Mitchell from the area.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2015
News Release: On the 4th day of his federal trial in El Paso, 52-year-old Jose Luis Rodriguez, owner of ERENE, Inc. (ERENE) pleaded guilty to orchestrating an estimated $100 million trade-based money laundering scheme announced United States Attorney Richard Durbin, Jr., Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Special Agent in Charge William Cotter, and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Waldemar Rodriguez.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2015
News Release: 9:00 a.m. Tipi Demo. 10:00 a.m. We Shall Remain: Goshute- video. 11:00 a.m. On the Trail of the Mountain Shoshone Sheet Eaters: A Rocky Mountain High Altitude Archaeological Odyssey- talk presented by Tory Taylor. 3:00 p.m. The Truth about Sacajawea- talk presented by Ken Thomasma. Thursday, September...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A Lombard dermatologist was sentenced today to 7 years in federal prison for submitting hundreds of false insurance claims for alleged skin cancer treatment that was unnecessary or never performed.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2015
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that an Eldon, Mo., woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for illegally possessing firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ANDREW HUTCHINSON, age 24, of New Orleans, was charged today in a one-count Bill of Information with receipt of images and videos depicting the sexual exploitation of children.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2015
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Fla. ---As Tropical Storm Erika approaches southeast Florida, Biscayne National Park has instituted a shutdown in accordance with its hurricane plan.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: In El Paso, a federal grand jury has charged a Supervisory U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer, his wife and a third individual for their alleged roles in an undocumented alien smuggling conspiracy announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Waldemar Rodriguez, El Paso Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JEAN NEGRON, also known “Pollo," 24, of Groton was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 19 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for his role in a cocaine trafficking ring.
