News from September 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: Dear Mr. Slavitt: The billions of dollars lost to Medicare fraud each year underscore the importance of stopping potentially fraudulent payments before they are made. Historically, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has paid claims and then, after the fact, investigated whether the claims...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Durham, North Carolina, tax return preparer was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in prison for aiding in the preparation of false tax returns, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Ripley Rand for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A Monroe County, Kentucky physician pleaded guilty today, in U.S. District Court, before Magistrate Judge H. Brent Brennenstuhl, with prescribing pain medications outside the course of professional medical practice, during a more than six year period, to five patients announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: With the next Obamacare enrollment period just around the corner, Americans are facing higher costs and fewer choices under a broken law that has proved to be anything but affordable.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: The House Committee on Education and the Workforce today approved H.R. 5963, the Supporting Youth Opportunity and Preventing Delinquency Act. Introduced by Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-FL) and Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA), the bipartisan legislation reauthorizes and reforms the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) to help state and local leaders better serve at-risk youth and juvenile offenders. The bill passed unanimously by voice vote.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Two individuals each pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of conspiracy to commit identity fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit human smuggling for financial gain for their respective roles in trafficking the identities of Puerto Rican U.S. citizens and corresponding identity documents.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Thealeah Duopu, 40, of Providence, was sentenced today to 72 months in federal prison for trafficking crack cocaine and being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Mickey D. Leadingham, Special Agent in Charge of the Boston Field Division of ATF.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Kenneth Bowman, Jr., 63, of Terry, Mississippi, pled guilty on Sept. 13, 2016, before U.S. District Judge Tom S. Lee, to one count of bankruptcy fraud, announced U. S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis, Acting U. S. Trustee Henry G. Hobbs, Jr. of Region 5, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Donald Alway.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - The owner of a home health care company headquartered in Lemont admitted in federal court today that he paid illegal kickbacks to procure referrals of elderly patients on Medicare.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - The owner of a home health care company headquartered in Lemont admitted in federal court today that he paid illegal kickbacks to procure referrals of elderly patients on Medicare.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Koissy Thomas Kemmeth, 52, of New York, New York, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and making a false, fictitious and fraudulent claim against the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: Maija Katak Lukin, Maniilaq Association Tribal Environmental Manager, and former Mayor of the City of Kotzebue, has been selected as the new superintendent for the Western Arctic Parklands.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Peabody man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston for receipt and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Garrett Brosnan, 25, of Bath, Maine, waived indictment and pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to attempting to transfer obscene matter to a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Isaac Allen, 23, of South Portland, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to 3 years in prison and 3 years of supervised release for possessing with intent to distribute ecstacy (3,4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)) and for illegally possessing firearms. Allen pled guilty to these offenses on March 17, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: WIND CAVE NATIONALPARK, SD-- The National Park Service (NPS), working with South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks (GFP), will use skilled volunteers to reduce its elk herd at Wind Cave National Park (Wind Cave) to help address the high rate of ChronicWasting Disease (CWD) in the park. Beginning in mid-November, trained volunteers selected through a lottery system managed by GFP will work with NPS staff to reduce the number of elk inside the park.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A former officer of a Woburn company was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston for embezzling over $1.3 million dollars from her employer over a ten-year period.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney, Deborah R. Gilg, announced that on Sept. 14, 2016, Domonique A. Camacho, 23, of Lincoln, was sentenced to 15 months in prison for possessing firearms while being a user of and/or addicted to marijuana between Dec. 26, 2015, and January 9, 2016. The charge arose from an...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: Two Men Plead Guilty for Their Roles in Identity Trafficking Scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after a bipartisan Member meeting with Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew regarding the potential economic impact of the Administration’s proposed section 385 regulations.
