News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka woman was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months in federal prison for billing Medicaid for services she did not provide to developmentally disabled adult patients, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall and Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt announced today. She was ordered to pay more than $480,000 in restitution.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 5,028,868 visitors to Yosemite National Park in 2016 spent $520,629,100 in communities near the park. That spending supported 7883 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $686,339,500.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A gang member who pleaded guilty to a racketeering conspiracy and use of a firearm resulting in death was sentenced today to 30 years in prison.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: ANCHORAGE - A new National Park Service report shows that 2.78 million visitors to national parks in Alaska spent nearly $1.3 billion in the state in 2016. That record visitation and spending supported 18,000 jobs.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: APR 20 - 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 Axel Pizarro, 41, of New Haven, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release for trafficking cocaine.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that a majority of pear growers in Oregon and Washington voted to continue their federal marketing order program.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 51-year-old Houston man has been convicted of receipt and possession of child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Porcupine, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Attempted Murder, two counts of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury, and Discharge of a Firearm during the Commission of a Crime of Violence.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: Gunnison, CO - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 238,017 visitors to Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park in 2016 spent $14,616,100 in communities near the park. That spending supported 197 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $18,040,200.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - The former office manager of Mountain State Justice, Inc., was sentenced today to four years and six months in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Kim Cooper, 55, of St. Albans, pled guilty to wire fraud and tax evasion on Jan. 23, 2017, admitting that she had embezzled over $1.5 million from Mountain State Justice and evaded the payment of income taxes owed to the Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: Defendant embezzled the money over nearly 12 years through stealing checks and using a secret account.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Karl Morrison, 59, of Kitchener, Ontario, pleaded guilty to attempting to export pentylone and furanyl fentanyl, before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine. Co-defendant Sorina Morrison, 60, also of Kitchener, pleaded guilty to misprision of a felony and faces three years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: Walgreen Co. Pays $9.86M to Settle Allegations of Improper Medi Cal Billings.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge this week sentenced seven people from Jefferson, Walker, Marion and Franklin counties for conspiring to traffic methamphetamine across northwest Alabama, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Bret Hamilton.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MOISES ESQUIVEL-RIOS, age 34, a citizen of Mexico, pled guilty today to a one-count Indictment charging him with illegal reentry of a removed alien, in violation of 8 U.S.C. ' 1326(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: Carolina Mountain Conservancy Facilitated Transfer of Acres to National Forest after United States and Defendants Reached Settlement for Sale of Hoot Owl Tract.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - After five days of extensive searching, today the National Park Service (NPS) is reducing the scale of the search for two hikers who went missing at Grand Canyon National Park on Saturday, April 15. The hikers are identified as Lou Ann Merrell, 62, and Jackson Standefer, 14.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Patrick C. Harris, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Diane Upchurch, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Faulkner County Sheriff Tim Ryals, announced today that Mitchell Johnson, 44, of Searcy, was sentenced to 262 months’ imprisonment and ten years of supervised release for production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 25-year-old Nigerian man who was residing in Houston has pleaded guilty to perpetuating a wire fraud scheme involving various Internet scams, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: A new National Park Service report shows that 2.78 million visitors to national parks in Alaska spent nearly $1.3 billion in the state in 2016. That record visitation and spending supported 18,000 jobs.
