News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - Per Alftin pleaded guilty today to structuring financial transactions to evade reporting requirements, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Michael T. Batdorf. The plea follows the June 3, 2016, filing in federal court charging Alftin with circumventing the federal reporting requirement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
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By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced an unprecedented nationwide sweep led by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force in 36 federal districts, resulting in criminal and civil charges against 301individuals, including 61 doctors, nurses and...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held an oversight hearing on the lack of enforcement and accountably from the Obama Administration in response to a growing number of reports of unethical and criminal conduct at the Department of the Interior (DOI).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that LESTER MORNAY, 68, of New Orleans, was charged in a one-count Bill of Information charging him with conspiracy to commit bribery and honest services wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: In Austin today, 32-year-old Adefemi Olokodana (aka “Coker Akosua Paul"), a Nigerian national residing in Austin, was sentenced to six years in federal prison for his role in a scheme to collect millions of dollars in tax refunds using stolen identification information announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr. and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Special Agent in Charge William Cotter.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: Jackson, Miss - The United States has reached a civil settlement with Mississippi Sports Medicine & Orthopaedic Center, PLLC (MSM) in connection with allegations that MSM violated federal regulations related to record keeping violations regarding the issuance of numerous controlled substance prescriptions, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Mary Suzanne Creach has been sentenced to federal prison for wire fraud as part of her scheme to steal over $230,000 from her former employer, an Atlanta-based law firm.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a statement following the Senate’s confirmation by voice vote of the nominations of Julie Becker, Steven Berk and Elizabeth Wingo to be Associate Judges on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 Like the President, I am disappointed by the Supreme Court’s 4-4 vote today in United States v. Texas. The case concerns Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) and the expansion of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). The 4-4 impasse leaves the court of appeals ruling in place and effectively prohibits us from implementing these important initiatives.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: USDA Secretary Vilsack, Reclamation Commissioner López Announce Strengthened Collaboration to Address Water Supply & Demand Imbalances BRIGHTON, Colo., June 23, 2016 – The U.S. Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Interior today announced more than $47 million in investments to help water districts ...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: USDA's Conservation Reserve Program Currently Provides 15 Million Acres of Healthy Forage for Pollinators, and New Partnership Will Ensure Additional High-Quality Habitat in the Future WASHINGTON, June 23, 2016 – Today, during National Pollinator Week and in advance of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's ...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: Insurance Changes Expand Farm Safety Net for Double Cropping WASHINGTON, June 23, 2016 – Acting Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Michael Scuse today announced that the federal crop insurance program will provide additional flexibility to farmers. The modifications center on the practice of growing two crops on the same field at different times of the year, which is known as double cropping.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: The Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced that D. G. Yuengling and Son Inc., has settled Clean Water Act violations involving its two large-scale breweries near Pottsville, Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: A woman originally from Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, entered guilty pleas today in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia to all 23 counts of an indictment related to an odometer tampering conspiracy, the Department of Justice announced. Judith Ann Aloe, 55, previously residing in Lauderdale Lakes, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch released the following statement today on the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin: “I am pleased that the Supreme Court has recognized our compelling interest in ensuring diversity in higher education.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: Charged Offenses Include Sex Trafficking, Interstate Prostitution, Alien Smuggling, Money Laundering, Racketeering and Racketeering Conspiracy in Connection with Scheme to Compel Mexican Women and Girls into Prostitution in the United States Five defendants were arraigned in federal court today following ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department today reached a landmark settlement agreement to reform the criminal justice system in Hinds County, Mississippi. The agreement resolves the department’s findings that the Hinds County Adult Detention Center and the Jackson City Detention Center – which together form the Hinds ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department reached an agreement today with Powerstaffing Inc., a temporary staffing agency based in Edison, New Jersey. The agreement resolves allegations that Powerstaffing’s North Bergen, New Jersey, office discriminated against work-authorized non-U.S. citizens in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: A former Department of Defense (DoD) supervisory contracting officer pleaded guilty today to charges that he accepted bribes from the owner of the foreign defense contractor at the center of a massive bribery and fraud scandal. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s ...
