News from April 2017
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - At approximately 12 pm on Sunday, April 23, Grand Canyon National Park was alerted to a personal locator beacon activation near Hance Rapid on the Colorado River. The Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center then received a satellite phone call from a private boating trip in the same location reporting CPR in progress.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: Crittenton Hospital Medical Center and the Crittenton Cancer Center, together with their current owners Ascension Michigan and Ascension Health, have agreed to pay $791,047 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by billing for medically unnecessary laboratory testing for patients...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A Charlotte man, his wife, and his mother are facing federal charges for engaging in a conspiracy to sex traffic three minor victims and related charges, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. A federal grand jury returned the eight...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - Federal prosecutors last week charged a former employee at the Federal Correctional Institution at Aliceville with accepting $5,695 in bribes to smuggle contraband into the prison and lying about it to investigators, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey, FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton and Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, Special Agent in Charge Robert A. Bourbon.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - Two brothers have been sentenced to more than four years in federal prison for their convictions of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health care fraud and money laundering, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Kevin Olufemi Davies, 29, and his brother Melvin Olusola Davies, 28, pleaded guilty Dec. 9, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Today, Dawud Abdulwali, 58, took a 15-year plea agreement, to avoid a trial for aggravated arson and arson of a structure, for starting the devastating fire that destroyed the unfinished, seven-story Da Vinci apartment complex, at 900 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, Calif., on Dec. 7, 2014. Investigators estimated the fire caused more than a $100 million in damages.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: APR 24 - 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 Daniel Gamero, 24, of Hartford, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 72 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for heroin distribution and firearm possession offenses.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: MEEKER, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management and Friends of the Mustangs are hosting a tour and barbeque May 6 to celebrate the wild horses of the Piceance-East Douglas Herd Management Area southwest of Meeker.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: Socorro, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Albuquerque District Resource Advisory Council (RAC) will meet on May 1, 2017, at the Socorro Field Office, 901 South Old Hwy 85, Socorro, New Mexico, from 9:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. All RAC meetings are open to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Addictive prescription drugs that are thrown away or left untended on shelves and in drawers at home are often stolen and either abused or sold by family members and visitors. That’s why the DEA and thousands of its state, local, and tribal law enforcement and community partners are holding...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today that AVANEESH KRISHNAMOORTHY, who works as a vice president and...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: What: About 700 elementary and middle school students from the Galt Joint Union Elementary School District, California, will participate in Wilderness Inquiry’s third annual Canoemobile. Students will paddle in 24-foot Voyageur canoes and participate in environmental education activities at Cosumnes River Preserve.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: While the National Park Service (NPS) considers mosquitoes a natural component of the ecosystem, we also recognize that mosquitoes can pose a risk to human and wildlife health. Following the recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and NPS guidelines, Lake Roosevelt staff has developed...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - Federal prosecutors last week charged a former employee at the Federal Correctional Institution at Aliceville with accepting $5,695 in bribes to smuggle contraband into the prison and lying about it to investigators, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey, FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton and Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, Special Agent in Charge Robert A. Bourbon.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Glenda Cane, 47, and Shalisa Robinson, 31, both of Houston, Texas have been sentenced for their role in a pill mill operation that operated during 2013-2015 announced United States Attorney John R. Parker.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement after the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Sonny Perdue as Secretary of the Department of Agriculture.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: MOBILE, Ala. - A former nurse practitioner, Thomas “Justin" Palmer, has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for his role in the operation of a massive pill mill run by Dr. Xiulu Ruan and Dr. John Patrick Couch, announced DEA Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge Bret Hamilton and Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler of the Southern District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: In 2016, the U.S. Department of Justice established National Reentry Week to bring awareness to the challenges faced by formerly incarcerated persons when they reenter society. In observance of this year’s week, April 23-29, Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler for the Southern District of Alabama announces some of the current projects in which the U.S. Attorney’s Office is participating.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: Portfolio Manager Agrees to Plead Guilty to Securities Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that fifteen individuals have been indicted for the illegal trafficking of eagles and other migratory birds. The Indictments are a result of a two-year undercover operation, dubbed Project Dakota Flyer.
