News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: Physician Agrees to 5-Year Exclusion from Federal Health Care Programs as Part of Settlement.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Select Investigative Panel Chairman Marsha Blackburn is calling on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to investigate potential violations of federal law by StemExpress and a number of abortion clinics.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Shaun McNabb, 35, of Boise, Idaho, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute and unlawful possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered McNabb to serve three years of supervised release following his release from prison. McNabb was convicted by a federal jury on March 11, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Eugene Monsanto, Jr., 40, made his initial appearance yesterday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller after being charged in a complaint with being a felon in possession of a firearm, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Monsanto was remanded to the custody of the United States Marshals Service after preliminary and detention hearings today pending further proceedings.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Greenwich, Conn. man was indicted today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection embezzling $54 million from the private equity firm for which he worked.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Greenbrier County man pleaded guilty today to a federal drug crime, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. James Michael Payne, 63, of Frankford, entered his guilty plea to distribution of heroin.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Select Investigative Panel Chairman Marsha Blackburn is calling on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to investigate potential violations of federal law by StemExpress and a number of abortion clinics.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Stewart C. Walz, who has been an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Utah since 1980, was honored for Superior Performance as an Assistant U.S Attorney at a Department of Justice ceremony Wednesday morning in Washington, D.C. Walz, a criminal attorney, was one of 160 nationwide recipients recognized...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: Defendants Used Money to Finance a Lavish Lifestyle.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The chief executive officer and owner of a Westwood-based mortgage brokerage company that falsely promised to help distressed homeowners avoid foreclosure - but instead stole the equity in the homes and served as the homeowners’ impostor landlord - was sentenced this afternoon to 94 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Man Arrested After Northeast Albuquerque Bank Robbed.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: Join Park Rangers for Special Centennial Trails Day Events.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - An Alabama man who possessed marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, and firearms at his residence on Charleston’s West Side was sentenced today to five years in federal prison for possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Michael Anthony Williams, 32, previously pleaded guilty in September 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: PORT ANGELES, Wash. - Pebbles clatter as an ocean wave recedes from the shore. The plop of raindrops is softened by layers of thick moss and lichen that cover the trees, rocks, and ground of the rain forest. High in a mountain meadow on a sunny July day, all is quiet but the hum of bees as they move from flower to flower. A stunning variety of sights, sounds, and experiences beckon visitors to Olympic National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: McALLEN, Texas ‐ Two physicians from a family medicine clinic in Mexico have been convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud for their role in a scheme to submit false and fraudulent insurance claims, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, ID - Following World War II, visitation to public lands increased significantly. One of the negative results was a corresponding increase in the number of human-caused forest fires, most due to escaped campfires. When a little cub rescued from the Lincoln National Forest became the symbol of fire prevention in the United States, the number of human-caused fires dropped. Today, Smokey Bear is among the most recognized figures in America.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - An accounting clerk in the Food and Nutrition Services Division of the Brownsville Independent School District (BISD) has admitted to stealing cash proceeds from concessions sales at four schools for nearly six years, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Leticia Arreola, 38, of Los Fresnos, entered a guilty plea this morning a one-count criminal information to theft concerning programs receiving federal funds.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), today sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Tom Wheeler regarding the FCC’s April 1, 2016, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM).
By USDA Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cited Old Fashion Honey Corp., doing business as U.S. Food Logistics, Delray Beach, Fla., for failure to pay for produce.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - On Saturday, June 4, the Bureau of Land Management and its partners invite the public to a ribbon cutting ceremony and trail building event to showcase routes near Ridgway, Colorado.
