News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Hillsboro man was indicted Tuesday on charges of carrying out a $7.9 million oil and gas fraud scheme, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By Homeland Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - On Tuesday Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, voted to reject the Labor Department’s fiduciary rule. Chairman Johnson released a report in February detailing the Labor Department’s flawed process in handing down the rule that hurts investors saving for retirement.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that additional charges have been filed against a Lee’s Summit, Mo., woman who was previously indicted for embezzling more than $300,000 from her employer.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Diego Rodriguez, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Charles Gardner, the Commissioner of the Yonkers Police Department, announced the unsealing of...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury in Scranton has indicted a husband and wife from Centre Hall, Pennsylvania for explosives and firearms offenses.
By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: The first bill before us - the Helping Hospitals Improve Patient Care Act - makes some changes to how hospitals are reimbursed under Medicare. The major pieces are important technical fixes to correct issues from the budget bill passed late last year.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: An admitted user of a controlled substance who possessed a firearm and ammunition was sentenced yesterday to just over four years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Joel Zweig, an attorney who resides in New York, was charged with wire fraud, obstruction of justice, perjury, aggravated identity theft, and false statements to a government agency announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: SAN JOSE - A federal grand jury indicted Dr. Vilasini M. Ganesh and Dr. Gregory Belcher last week with conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health care fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and money laundering, announced Acting United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. Dr. Ganesh is a family practitioner and Dr. Belcher is an orthopedic surgeon.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - Haywood Bernard Hall, 34, of Cedar Hill, Texas, appeared in federal court today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Renée Harris Toliver and pleaded guilty to one count of making a false statement under penalty of perjury in a filing in a bankruptcy petition, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Elias David Parra, 29, of Deming, N.M., pleaded guilty this afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to violating the federal firearms laws.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - Several suspects, including high-ranking members of a Chicago street gang, are facing drug or gun charges for their alleged roles in dealing narcotics and firearms on the city’s South Side.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - Due to anticipated high heat conditions, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Barstow Field Office, has revised the meeting time and location for the previously scheduled Rasor Road Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) area tour rides and meeting. The scheduled tour rides will provide a...
By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today released the full transcript of a Committee deposition of a former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employee regarding cost-sharing reduction payments in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) following a vote by the Committee to release the transcript. The deposition was unprecedented and covered the same subject of an ongoing House Republican lawsuit against the Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - A 20-count federal indictment has been unsealed following the arrest of the owner of KMD Healthcare Services Inc., and his brother on charges they engaged in a conspiracy involving fraudulent Medicare and Medicaid billing for ambulance services, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: New York Man Arrested for Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIL.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: A Sioux City man who threatened another man with a sawed-off shotgun was sentenced on March 30, 2016 to more than a year in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: MISSOULA - Lawrence L. Lockard, 67, of Bigfork, was sentenced Friday to 6 months in prison for abusive sexual contact. Chief U.S. District Court Judge Dana Christensen issued the sentence and ordered Lockard to pay $21,872.49 in restitution to the victim. Lockard will also be subject to five years’ supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: Tammy L. Kellerman, 53, of Pinckneyville, Illinois, the former bookkeeper for the Pinckneyville Rural Fire Protection District (PRFPD), was sentenced today in United States District Court in Benton to 33 months in prison for defrauding the tax-payer funded municipal entity of over $444,000.00, announced...
By DOE Newswire | May 24, 2016
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