News from September 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bicameral Republican leaders today shared a new report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) examining state resources for helping Medicaid beneficiaries find providers. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that approximately 77 million Americans are enrolled...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Eduardo Tovar, 27, of Artesia, New Mexico, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: A Northern California real estate investor pleaded guilty for his role in a conspiracy to rig bids at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Northern California, the Department of Justice announced.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bicameral Republican leaders today shared a new report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) examining state resources for helping Medicaid beneficiaries find providers. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that approximately 77 million Americans are enrolled...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A doctor with offices in Toms River, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in prison for accepting thousands of dollars in exchange for patient referrals to two lab companies that performed blood and DNA testing, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: A Cleveland man was indicted in federal court for possessing with intent to distribute heroin, fentanyl and cocaine, as well as illegally operating a drug house and having a firearm, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A group of bicameral Republican health care leaders are pointing to a new legal opinion issued on Obamacare’s controversial reinsurance program. The leaders urged the Comptroller General of the United States this spring to publish a legal opinion on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - This week the heads of the national drug-control agencies for the United States and the People’s Republic of China, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Administrator Chuck Rosenberg and Director (DG) Hu Minglang from the Narcotics Control (NCB) of the Ministry of Public Security, met at DEA Headquarters...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Thomas Cuthbertson, 25, formerly incarcerated at the United States Penitentiary Hazelton, was convicted and sentenced to 15 months today for assaulting a correctional officer, U.S. Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A group of bicameral Republican health care leaders are pointing to a new legal opinion issued on Obamacare’s controversial reinsurance program. The leaders urged the Comptroller General of the United States this spring to publish a legal opinion on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Lloyd Nathaniel Joyner, a/k/a Zulu, a/k/a Zu, and Dave Montonio Sturgis, Jr., have been convicted in federal district court in connection with a string of armed, drug store robberies in Atlanta and Cobb County, Georgia, in May and June 2015.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Ranking Member Anna Eshoo (D-CA), and committee member Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today sent a letter to National Telecommunications and Information Administration Administrator...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Branch, Banking & Trust Company (“BB&T") has agreed to pay the United States $83 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by falsely certifying that it had complied with critical underwriting and quality control (“QC") requirements when originating “FHA loans" -...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Carlson Enterprises. Inspection site(s): 1506 Rivergate Drive. Jacksonville, Florida 32223. Citations issued: OSHA issued four citations to the employer on Sept. 22, 2016. Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued citations...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Jackson Police Officer Melvin Williams was arrested today after a federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment against him for soliciting, demanding and accepting a bribe, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Donald Alway.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Yasser Carrillo Chartrand, 24, a citizen of Cuba legally present in the United States, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, was sentenced to 12 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara. The defendant was also ordered to pay full restitution in the amount of $13,785.29 to various financial institutions.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal grand jury in Chicago has indicted a futures trader for allegedly causing $13 million in losses in a fraud scheme that led to the collapse of his trading firm.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Jose Casellas, 39, a citizen of the Dominican Republic most recently residing in Lawrence, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to a federal indictment charging him with conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) delayed its vote on Chairman Wheeler’s set-top box vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: SEP 29 - HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Eric Lonergan, 23, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Vanessa...
