News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Princess Cruise Lines Ltd. (Princess) has agreed to plead guilty to seven felony charges stemming from its deliberate pollution of the seas and intentional acts to cover it up. Princess will pay a $40 million penalty- the largest-ever criminal penalty involving deliberate vessel pollution...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: Defendant and Six Co-Defendants Prosecuted under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: FPMC Paid Approximately $40 Million in Bribes and Kickbacks in Exchange for Patient Referrals.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - Evetta Galloway Griffin, 49, of Grand Prairie appeared this morning before U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle and pleaded guilty to theft or bribery concerning programs receiving Federal funds. U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas made today’s announcement.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Bakersfield Field Office is issuing permits to collect felled trees for firewood or other uses in the Chimney Creek and Walker Pass campgrounds in Kern County.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: ‘College’ Created as Part of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Sting Operation.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: Beginning in the middle of December, and continuing through March 2017, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will be conducting prescribed burn operations about 10 miles northeast of Ruidoso and 5 miles southeast of Capitan in Lincoln County. There are five prescribed fire units being planned to take place within the Fort Stanton-Snowy River Cave National Conservation Area:.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Quintin Thompson, 26, and Montell Jones, 28, both of Buffalo, NY, were sentenced in connection with two shootings by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: Defendant Maintained a Drug House in Northeast Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Today, Dequan Deshawn Willard, 22, of Lubbock, Texas, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge D. Gordon Bryant and pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine base and one count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that it issued a district specific opioid strategy to address the prescription opioid and heroin epidemic plaguing our nation and the Middle District of Pennsylvania. United States Attorney Bruce...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan sentenced Christopher McCain (27, Anniston, AL) yesterday to 32 years in federal prison for two counts of robbery and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. He pleaded guilty on July 3, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Joseph W. Nagle, age 55, of Deerfield Beach, Florida and Ernest G. Fink, Jr., 71, of Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania, the former owners of Schuylkill Products Inc., (SPI) had their sentences affirmed...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: Virginia Electrician Sentenced to Prison for Obstructing Administration of Internal Revenue Laws.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today issued an updated rule that will make its land use planning more accessible to the public, more responsive to the changing conditions on the public lands, and more efficient.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, had this to say following news reports that 592 veterans at the Tomah Veterans Affairs Medical Center may have been exposed to disease after being treated with dental instruments not compliant with the VA policies.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A physician’s assistant who provided aesthetic services including Botox injections to clients in Garden City and Scott City pleaded guilty Thursday to violating the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - Founders and investors of the physician-owned Forest Park Medical Center (FPMC) in Dallas, other executives at the hospital, and physicians, surgeons, and others affiliated with the hospital, have been charged in a federal indictment, returned by a grand jury in Dallas last month and unsealed...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington today sentenced Jessieca Omowele (30, Tampa) and her husband, Kevin B. Jones (31, Tampa) to six years and three months in federal prison for theft of government property and aggravated identity theft stemming from their involvement in a...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Aida Crespo, age 44, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today by Chief United States District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner, to 20 months’ imprisonment for submitting approximately 27 fraudulent tax returns to the Internal Revenue Service.
