News from April 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska-U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that an Anchorage man has been sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess to serve 84 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to launder hundreds of thousands of dollars earned from the sale of large quantities of heroin and cocaine by local drug dealers.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: Converting a single photon from one color, or frequency, to another is an essential tool in quantum communication, which harnesses the subtle correlations between the subatomic properties of photons (particles of light) to securely store and transmit information. Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have now developed a miniaturized version of a frequency converter, using technology similar to that used to make computer chips.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: Two Martin County convicted felons were sentenced to prison for unlawfully possessing firearms and ammunition at an indoor firing range in Jensen Beach, Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Tyrell Fuqua-Hayes, 38, of Jamestown, NY, who was convicted of making false statements and representations to the FBI, was sentenced to 27 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Robert Orth, 30, of South Ryegate, Vermont, was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire on federal charges of possessing with intent to distribute more than 100 grams of heroin, possessing a firearm in furtherance of his heroin trafficking, and possessing a firearm as a previously convicted felon. The Court imposed a term of ten years’ imprisonment.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: The Glacier Point Road in Yosemite National Park will open for the season to automobile traffic tomorrow, Tuesday, April 19, 2016, at 9:00 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -Macedonio Madrigal-Herrera (Madrigal), 44, of Michoacán, Mexico, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to manufacture, distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana, in connection with a large-scale cultivation operation located in the Brush Creek drainage in the Sequoia National Forest in Tulare County, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: Two Martin County convicted felons were sentenced to prison for unlawfully possessing firearms and ammunition at an indoor firing range in Jensen Beach, Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - Felipe Pinon, 28, of Dallas, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 30 years in federal prison, following his guilty plea in November 2015 to felony offenses stemming from his role in the armed carjacking of two people last year in Dallas, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced an information charging KIRSTEN ANN TJOSAAS, 38, for embezzling more than $5.7 million from Fagen, Inc. (Fagen), an industrial contracting company for which she served as Chief Financial Officer. TJOSAAS is charged with wire fraud and money laundering. The defendant is expected to appear at a later date before Judge Donovan W. Frank in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minn.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: SONORA, Calif. - On April 19, the Bureau of Reclamation in conjunction with the Oakdale Irrigation District and South San Joaquin Irrigation District plans to increase. releases from Goodwin Dam into the Stanislaus River, to supplement spring fishery flow requirements according to the National Marine...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Alex Jones Bailey, 26, of Caldwell, Idaho, was sentenced today to 86 months in prison for unlawful possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Bailey to serve three years of supervised release following his release from prison, and forfeiture of the gun he illegally possessed. Bailey pleaded guilty on June 12, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Special Agent in Charge Gary Tuggle of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Philadelphia Division announced today that the DEA will sponsor a play entitled Off-Script for the junior and senior high school students of Valley High School as part of the DEA’s ongoing 360 Strategy to address prescription opioid and heroin abuse in Western Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Crawford County, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on a charge of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: Miami Physician Sentenced to 108 Months in Prison for His Role in $30 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: Grab your flashlight and experience a lighthouse at night by joining the National Park Service on a Full Moon Tour of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. Hear stories of keepers of old, view the working light close up in the lantern room, and catch the reflection off the Atlantic Ocean of the newly-risen full moon as you stand on the lighthouse balcony.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Chief U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney sentenced to 33 months in prison a Fayetteville, N.C. woman responsible for creating fake patient records in a Medicaid fraud conspiracy, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Tanisha Melvin, 36, was also ordered to serve three years under court supervision and to pay $392,159.81 as restitution to Medicaid.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Jesus Coca, age 35, and his wife Caroline Coca, age 36, both of Hawthorne, California, pleaded guilty today to producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA-The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia announced that it has reached a settlement with dermatologists Margaret Kopchick, M.D., and Russell Burken, M.D., and their practice group, Toccoa Clinic Medical Associates, who agreed collectively to pay $1.9 million to settle claims that they violated the False Claims Act by billing Medicare for evaluation and management (E&M) services that were not permitted by Medicare rules.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), the top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee released the following statement in reaction to oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in United States v. Texas, reviewing President Obama’s executive actions on the expanded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and the new Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) programs.
