News from July 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore today sentenced Guy R. Paul to three years in federal prison for engaging in the preparation of false tax returns and for failing to report income he had earned from his tax preparation business. The Court ordered him to pay restitution in the amount of $217,246 to the Internal Revenue Service. He is also permanently barred from preparing tax returns for others.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - AstraZeneca LP has agreed to pay the United States and participating individual states a total of $46.5 million, plus interest, to resolve allegations that it knowingly underpaid rebates owed under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program, the Justice Department announced today. Of that amount, AstraZeneca will pay roughly $26.7 million, plus interest, to the United States, and the remainder to states participating in the settlement.
By State Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the top Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement marking the 80th birthday of His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: CANON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Royal Gorge Field Office is set to begin work on the Park Center Well this week. Construction on the site will require the use of a short bypass road on Red Canyon Road. Work on the well is expected to take less than two weeks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: TULSA, Okla.-James Patrick Okey, 45, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to sale of a firearm to a convicted felon announced Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma. Okey was a Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL) who owned and operated a gun store, Hunters Choice, located in Sapulpa, Oklahoma.
By State Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued this statement after reports surfaced that Iran is now pushing for the United Nations’ arms embargo on the country to be completely lifted as part of a final nuclear agreement. Iran is under a UN arms embargo that seeks to prevent Tehran from aiding and arming its allies and surrogates in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and elsewhere in the region.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: While corals can recover from mild bleaching, severe or long-term bleaching kills corals. Even if corals recover, they are more susceptible to disease. Once corals die, it usually takes decades for the reef to recover - but recovery is only possible if the reefs are undisturbed. After corals die, reefs degrade and the structures corals build are eroded away, providing less shoreline protection and less habitat for fish and shellfish.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A co-owner of a plastics recycling company in El Dorado, Kan., pleaded guilty Monday to mishandling waste chemicals and was sentenced to pay more than $118,000 in restitution to the Environmental Protection Agency, said U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom. In addition, the defendant was sentenced to serve 18 months on probation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - An Amarillo, Texas, man appeared in federal court today and admitting robbing a branch of Amarillo National Bank (ANB) in March 2015, announced Acting U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, and Chris Koster, Missouri Attorney General, announced that the former Harrison County, Mo., prosecuting attorney was sentenced in federal court today for stealing more than $540,000 from an elderly client.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Fairfax Nursing Center (FNC) has agreed to pay $97,500 to resolve allegations that it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by failing to provide effective communication services to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing in the provision of medical services.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - AstraZeneca LP has agreed to pay the United States and participating states a total of $46.5 million, plus interest, to resolve allegations that it knowingly underpaid rebates owed under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program, the Justice Department announced today. Of that amount, AstraZeneca will pay roughly $26.7 million, plus interest, to the United States, and the remainder to states participating in the settlement.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: Employer name: HB&G Building Products Inc.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: Rocky Mountain National Park is implementing the final phase of its Commercial Services Strategy for guided commercial climbing in the park. Park staff have released a prospectus for up to six concession contracts for Instruction and Guide Services in Technical Mountaineering. One of the goals of the...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: CHICKASAW COUNTY, MS - On July 3, 2015, at approximately12:35 p.m., Natchez Trace Parkway Communications received notification of a head-on collision near milepost 244.5 involving a Honda CRV and a Chevrolet Tahoe. U.S. Park Rangers, Chickasaw County Sheriff's Deputies, and the Chickasaw County coroner responded to the scene.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - David Anaya Garcia, 31, of Las Cruces, N.M., was arrested on July 2, 2015, on federal child pornography charges. Garcia made his initial appearance in federal court earlier today. He remains in custody pending a preliminary hearing and detention hearing, both of which currently are scheduled for later this week.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: Beginning July 13, the Acadia trail crew will be rehabilitating Cadillac Cliffs Trail on Gorham Mountain.Due to overhead lifting systems, the trail will be closed Monday through Friday, from 7:00 am until 4:00 pm.The project will continue through mid-August.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: TULSA, Okla.-James Patrick Okey, 45, pleaded guilty to sale of a firearm to a convicted felon announced Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma. Okey was a Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL) who owned and operated a gun store, Hunters Choice, located in Sapulpa, Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Nickolas Oliva, 27, of Dover, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to being an unlawful user in possession of a firearm and possession of stolen firearms, announced Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: Denali National Park and Preserve, in partnership with the Upper Susitna Soil and Water Conservation District and the University of Alaska Museum of the North, is holding a Historic Archaeological Culture Camp in Talkeetna from July 1 to July 16, 2015. The participants, all local high school students...
